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Poems for the Earth

Poem for our earth Slain and crushed, using credit that ran out long ago Sickness sears our souls, mutes colours and smells and tastes....

It's amazing when you realise what you don't need. Our western consumer culture is so foreign to the idea of lack. But, when time or...

Isn't that the most annoying realisation? The "nope, not yet" of still needing to drive several hours on a long road trip or of having...

Ever since I moved to the Southern Hemisphere, I found that I've had no intuitive sense of the time of year. I knew intellectually that...

Thoughtful eaters will sometimes talk about their gratefulness for animals giving their lives so that we can eat. While I was fishing...

Even though I've been a vegetarian on and off for twelve years, I jumped at the opportunity to help cull (ie, slaughter) a couple...

I've been reading a deep, thoughtful and powerful book called Food and Faith which has helped to refine and articulate what I had already...

As I've been making decisions about my work future in the past couple months, I've realized how I'm closer and yet farther from where I...

Sometimes the path is really dark. Clouds fill the sky and even if they weren't there the moon is too low to light the tree-lined path. ...

I've been reading an engaging and slightly quirky book called, There's a Cow in my Garden. Not only has it continued to fuel my dream of...

brenda wang

Kia ora, I'm brenda, a Canadian transplant living in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Among other things, I've written a book, Generous Frugality: an alternative approach to money, which is based on two questions:

1) What if we measured wealth by how much we give away?

2) What if we're frugal so that we can be generous?

Join me on the journey toward a more just, more generous and more simple life.