I am taking a class called Enough. Its being taught by Vicki Robbins, the women who wrote a book called Your Money or your Life. Well, which is it? Why you might ask is it either/or? Well I don’t know exactly what Vicki would say to that but I do know this, people do choseRead the Rest…
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Posts Tagged ‘Scarcity’
Parenting from Sufficiency: Confession of a Guilty Mom
February 17th, 2010 - No Comments
My friend said it well – “Guilty Moms are a dime a dozen” – but I really had no idea all the ways in which I was feeling guilty (one of the top Weapons of Scarcity I use on myself regularly) until I started looking around my life. Take the trip we are going on that involves a six-hour drive one way. I am anxious for my three year old to be in the car for so long. Though I was given lots of advice about ideas to entertain her, I was loath to deal with the preparation. Find a DVD player to borrow, collect some DVDs, go to Target’s $1 area for cheap and new-to-her toys, and make some puppets and other home made activities. I had a deadline this week and wasn’t willing to spend my downtime making stuff. I didn’t want to spend the money; didn’t want to have TV in the car. I just didn’t want to deal.
What if?
February 15th, 2010 - No Comments
I once heard someone say that the phrase ‘what if’ made them crazy. I was struck by the veracity of that comment mainly because it clearly troubled them and I hadn’t ever thought about it. I was surprised that I hadn’t because after all, the in The Tools of Sufficiency, I claim that ‘what is’Read the Rest…
Consumption as Scarcity or Abundance?
February 10th, 2010 - No Comments
More is Better, the unexamined cultural assumption that drives our economy and makes me feel special in a new pair of boots. But I am also afraid. I am afraid of energy descension (Peak Oil). I am afraid of climate change. Of higher and higher food prices. Of health care insurance and health care costs. I am afraid of what I am hearing and reading (Depletion and Abundance by Sharon Astyk, Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn) and I am afraid that so few of us are listening, including myself much of the time.
Consuming stuff makes me feel part of the world and it dulls my senses. Some experts are talking about the fact that the response loop to our actions is delayed in the earth’s response. So we can’t see it. Sitting still and listening, reading what the experts are actually saying, is frightening. At the moment I am strung between scarcity and abundance, fear and yearning. Sufficiency is the way out, the exit off the continuum of scarcity and abundance. If I could just get by the boots…
Scarcity, the destination of the road I travel by?
February 8th, 2010 - No Comments
I remember hearing about 20 years ago that happiness was a journey not a destination. That notion itself made me happy because happiness was elusive to me back then, and I thought, “great I have plenty of time to find it.” When I started my own personal inquiry into sufficiency, I told myself it thisRead the Rest…
Canceling the Course: A Break Through Scare City
February 3rd, 2010 - 1 Comment
Leaving Scare City for Sufficiency
Finding My Enough Line
February 1st, 2010 - 5 Comments
The first time I was conscious of using enough in my life was when I trained our dog, Scout. She came home at 12 weeks in April of 1994. Because I had never owned a dog and I knew she would get to be 70+ pounds of pure muscle, I immersed myself in reading severalRead the Rest…
What Would Martin Do?
January 18th, 2010 - No Comments
On Sunday my minister preached on WWMD (What Would Martin Do?) as homage to the bracelets that many Christian youths wore about a decade ago as a reminder to ask themselves, when up against a moral dilemma, what would Jesus do? (WWJD) On the Celebration of the birth of Martin Luther King Jr. our minister challengedRead the Rest…
Parenting from "Strength in What Remains"
January 13th, 2010 - 3 Comments
It was an accident that I started reading the book Strength in What Remains (Random House, 2009) as I also started preparation for the Parenting from Sufficiency tele-course. I had ordered the book from the library back in October, but it was so popular, the book arrived three months later, last Friday. I’ve been transfixedRead the Rest…
Shame
January 11th, 2010 - No Comments
I have said many times that shame is a weapon of Scarcity. I have said it is The Atomic Bomb of weapons. I had a thought this past Friday, what is shame? Is it guilt? Where does it come from? Looking in the Oxford English Dictionary doesn’t quite describe what shame is for me: TheRead the Rest…
