An entry in the How To Be Poor series To better understand the distorted viewpoint of our culture that I wrote about in the last post, I want to talk about food and diet. As I tend to reference my own experiences in these posts, I want to write initially about my own changing diet [...]
Archive for February 2012
There are No Vegetarians in a Famine 8 comments
Our Distorted View 12 comments
An entry in the How To Be Poor series The idea that voluntary poverty is a challenge is one of the more ridiculous realities of our present situation. Yet it’s a reality, just the same. I was thinking of that this morning while reading a criticism of my How To Be Poor series of blog [...]
Encounters: An Introduction, Concerning Hubris 14 comments
It strikes me that one of the great challenges we face at the moment is getting a grip on our own hubris. We need, first of all, to recognize its existence, which we too often do not recognize. We need also to understand the danger its existence bestows upon us. I believe it’s due to [...]
Rest, Renewal, and an Honest Hope 28 comments
Regular readers may have noticed it’s been over a week since the last post, which is a longer wait between posts than normal here on this blog. I intended to have something up on Tuesday, then on Thursday, and then again yesterday night, but I kept pushing back the writing. Partly that was due to [...]
When Money No Longer Gets Money 30 comments
An entry in the How To Be Poor series Friday morning, I found myself sitting on the back patio of the town house my mother’s rented here in Sedona, Arizona, basking in a warm February sun with a good book and a hot cup of coffee. This proved quite the pleasure for me this time [...]
How To Be Poor: An Argument for Voluntary Poverty — Part Three 16 comments
This is Part Three of the How To Be Poor introduction. Read Part One and Part Two. On The Road I have not been living poor the last few days. In fact, I’ve been living . . . well, if not quite rich by American standards, then at least upper middle class. It hasn’t been with [...]
