Standing Together (Part 7 of 7)
This is the final post that corresponds to the course I have been facilitating called Uncertain Times: Traveling the Road of Transition Inside of Sufficiency. And as I think of…
The Seven Stones Blog
We invite you to explore our thoughts, ideas and reflections on our journey through the maze of scarcity into our understanding of Sustainable Abundance.
Sufficiency in this Moment
Sufficiency does not equal comfort. It doesn’t mean we won’t be hungry, tired, bored or lonely if we choose to live in Sufficiency. It doesn’t mean we are exempt from…
Reflecting on Our Way (Part 6.5 of 7)
Sufficiency is not right, but it is a right that we can harvest, a truth that exists for us to realize for ourselves. There’s no road down scarcity or road down sufficiency. For most of us the path of sufficiency is checkered with both the assumptions of scarcity and sufficiency at different times or moments. Our goal, my goal, is to lean into sufficiency more of the time.
Learning
The sun rises Its rays dance on the earth – all of the earth Its light sparkles like diamonds Jewels to be enjoyed by all Rays are abundant Not only…
Cancer journals #3: endurance
I’ve noticed several more fascinating things about entitlement I want to share. 1. It keeps me focused on and addicted to what I don’t have. 2. I observe that I…
A Sufficient Future (Part 6 of 7)
Three recent experiences helped me start to think about A Sufficient Future: One – It occurred to me as I was doing yoga this week and making a transition from…
Wanting
How do I be all I want to be? Read all I want to read? Clean all I want to clean? Clear all I want to clear? Eat all I…
Cancer journals #2: bargaining for false safety
I made a deal with the devil and I did not even know it, not until my husband got cancer. (I know I told you all Id write about currency. …
Sufficient Transitions: Recess from Excess (Part 5 of 7)
Sufficiency invites us not to get rid of stuff but to allow our stuff to be part of our flow, the in and out of our lives. The gifting, the exchanging, the transferring, so that our stuff, our relationships, our ideas and our love can be part of the back and forth rhythm of life.
The Truth About Sufficiency
I have just finished the Beacon Press imprint of Gandhi an Autobiography: The story of my experiments with truth (1957). Although I found M.K. Gandhi’s writing style a little irksome…