There’s something contradictory and cool about Tinymine, a blog I discovered a week or so ago. It’s voluntary simplicity, from a glossy perspective. And I’m surprised to find I love it.
I’ve always come at Voluntary Simplicity with a very minimalist, make-do-and-mend approach: less is more, focus on ‘enough,’ possessions weigh you down and curtail your [...]
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High-Gloss Voluntary Simplicity
4 Secrets of A Surveillance Society: The Power of Inconvenience
I’m quite enjoying this low-profile, under-the-radar-living thread. I started to think about the ways that low-profile lives are monitored and restricted. Here’s a few:
1. Packing-plastic.
You need to have a credit card, even when you don’t need one. When travelling in the UK/Australia anyway, almost any accomodation requires a credit card. Even when you turn up [...]
How To Live Under-the-Radar
Over at Code Name Insight, there have been a couple of interesting posts recently (see links here and here) about how to live a ‘low profile’ life, below the government’s or other authorities’ radars.
This is pretty radical stuff, if it’s something you’re setting out to do. And quite honestly, if that is something you want [...]
Why This High?
Wow, I’m on a high this morning. Up before dawn as usual for my morning run, and, with no shame about being cheesy as hell, I ‘ran like the wind.’ Beat that if you can before 6am on a Monday.
Got the laundry done, got some housework done, pulled together a ‘to do’ list, browsed all [...]
Living The Dream: Costs
Freycinet Peninsula, Tasmania. A nice place to hang out for a few days marathon training.
I put in a couple of magnificent (and challenging) 12 milers here, round the Hazards-Wineglass Bay loop, at the crack of dawn while most of the tourists and hikers were still fast asleep. There are great trails skirting the peaks, [...]
How Our Economy Is Killing The Earth
For a brilliantly informed and thought provoking series of articles on the relationships between the economy and the environment, follow the link to New Scientist, edition dated 16th October 2008, issue number 2678.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026786.000-special-report-how-our-economy-is-killing-the-earth.html
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Anti-Stuff
Been thinking about ’stuff’ a lot lately. Cataclysmic economic difficulties across the globe have prompted all sorts of views and debate on the topic and its solution… To little ol’ me, the message seems to boil down to… If you’re lucky enough to still have money to spend, get out there and spend it! It’s [...]
Duty To
It’s our duty to the economy to buy more stuff. It’s our duty to the environment to buy less stuff. Hmmm.
Why I Love The Hippy Lifestyle
The heat in the Northern Territory makes me hot and bothered. Irritable, lazy, nippy. A signpost suggests a range of walks in the Kakadu National Park, all between 1km and 3km, and I drag my heels and if given the chance opt not to bother. In this heat, even 1.8km is too far…!
The mozzies infest [...]
How Fewer Possessions Boosts Creativity
When it comes to being creative, I think it works better, not having. I used to spend quite a lot of money (relatively speaking) on the books of interesting writers and the prints of artists who’s work I admire. I think it’s important to support the work of talented creative people, and its nice to [...]
