Greetings from Alison Wiley here in Portland, Oregon. I'm a writer/doer/thinker who lives happily by putting people, nature and God ahead of accumulating more stuff. Read more →
Less shopping, more nature Less email, more conversation Less junk food, more real food Less TV, more reading Less driving, more walking and biking Less stuff, more space Less alcohol, more money saved Less waste, more energy conservation Less compulsiveness, more contentment Less oil energy, more wind and solar energy Less driving alone, more carpooling and [...]
Tags: alcohol·biking·conversation·driving·email·energy conservation·junk food·nature·reading·real food·savings·stuff·TV·walking
When I recently returned from my mostly car-free vacation in Montreal (be sure to click that link to learn how a car is like a condom), I returned, like most people, to a full inbox of work emails. Sigh. I wondered: how could we all have a diamond-cut email inbox, i.e. a chiseled-down, handcrafted experience of [...]
Tags: email·Leo Babauta·Zen Habits
Staycations in lieu of travel vacations let us have fun while living within our means and not racking up any credit card debt. Plane trips, especially for whole families, quickly run into thousands of dollars, not to mention the way restaurant meals cost double to ten times what you’d spend cooking at home. Plus, any [...]
Tags: carbon footprint·email·family·fun·green living·happiness·ktylerconk·long-distance relationships·phone conversations·relationships·staycations·thrift
My pursuit of the Diamond-Cut Life (a life rich in joy and low in consumption) still leaves me plenty vulnerable to the excesses of U.S. culture. I love finding little inroads to simplicity and happiness like the ones I’ve listed here. I’ll publish the second half later this week. Gracefully end memberships that are no [...]
Tags: bicycling·cars·email·exercise·green living·happiness·life·plants·possessions·storage·thrift·vegetables
As much as I like people and friendship and community, I rarely feel I have enough of any of these in my life. I want more. I blame the deficit partly on my own individualistic tendencies. (After all, I was a self-employed artist/writer from 1992-2004, and some individualism goes with the artistic territory). But more [...]
Tags: artist·carpooling·Christmas cards·conferences·email·friendship·happiness·movies·people·trainings·vacations·writer
How free are you from HAVING to use the Internet? What’s the longest you’ve gone in the last year without using the Internet? What do you find yourself doing when you’ve got no access to email or the web? Thor and I just returned from a tiny, beautiful town on the Oregon coast (possibly the [...]
Tags: addiction·email·Internet·laptop·Oregon coast·retreat·Stephen Covey·technology
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