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Category: Simplicity

Posted on April 12, 2011October 11, 2013

Building a Pattern Language of My Own

I have more questions than answers.  For me, that makes life interesting. In my first blog, I linked to the site of my favorite book, “A Pattern Language“, by Christopher…

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Posted on January 17, 2011October 11, 2013

Thriving on Complexity

On a cold morning in March, pedalling along Bush Point Road, I saw this sign. I realized that I didn’t know where I was.  My mind was on an inward…

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Posted on November 14, 2010October 11, 2013

Rent vs Own

It’s 3AM and I am listening to the low, pulsing hum of a freighter making its way up or down Puget Sound.  The noise I’m hearing is the propeller churning…

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Posted on November 7, 2010July 2, 2013

Homecoming

When I arrived home from Montana, I expected the Grand Moment… the Ta-da of completion. It didn’t happen.      Not only was the job not done… part of what was…

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Posted on October 17, 2010July 2, 2013

Road Trip to Montana

Somewhere between Missoula and Butte, Montana, John Lennon is singing “Imagine” on the stereo.  “Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can…”   I start thinking about my bookshelves again. Mostly I…

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Posted on October 10, 2010July 2, 2013

Navigating Chaos

There is a fine layer of dust over everything.  The cat calendar on the kitchen table still says Friday, October 1st. That was the day before two carpenters arrived for a…

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Posted on September 26, 2010July 2, 2013

A Word About Sundays…

When I first considered blogging about simple living, I thought that it might be an oxymoron.  But it turns out that writing regularly about simplicity keeps me thinking about it……

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Posted on September 19, 2010July 2, 2013

To Have or To Have Not

Before Simple Living and Tiny Houses were twittered and blogged and typed into search engines, I made The List.  Inspired by the example of Michael Phillips and the Briarpatch Community,…

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