Items tagged Simplicity

• Beware of toilet envy

  The Jones family can haunt us even in a well-intentioned quest to live simply.

• Voluntary Simplicity

  A basic introduction to the principles of living simply and an exploration of the issues that might drive us there involuntarily.

• The emperor has only clothes

  How would the famous story change in a contemporary Western context?

• I love . . .

  Two lists of beloved things by two sisters who are learning to name the good things in their lives.

• The rat race, art, and the inner life

  When we escape the noise long enough to hear the still, small voice, the journey of life takes on amazing new meaning.

• Woods treasures

  Ideas for celebrating the beauty of nature by creating simple, found-object gifts.

• Thrift store philosophy

  Sorting through donated books raises questions about acquisition.

• All creatures of our God

  Consider the cat?

• Simplify

  On what a closet-cleaning can teach about spiritual discipline.

• Socially transmitted disease

  A review of the book Affluenza.