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This year and this journey are something of a sabbatical for me - time to rest, disengage (to an extent) from my previous life and to...

As I've been house sitting an off-the-grid 3 acre property, I've come to love living so close to my humanity. When it's cloudy, I limit...

I've been away from this blog for a while. Some of it has been a lack of access to the internet, some of it has been my own laziness,...

Again I've realized that so much of life is beyond my control. I was supposed to be picking kiwi fruit right now and making some money. ...

Literally. I never thought I'd be so fascinated with poo and pee, but that day has come! I've used a few varieties of composting toilets...

I spent a good part of two months this southern hemisphere spring pulling weeds from organic gardens. In those hours, I had a chance to...

I hoped for rain the other day. The forecast called for several mm's but when I woke up, the clouds weren't as dark as they are when it's...

Three times in the same week I was tasked with turning the compost while wwoofing. The work was simple: there were three boxes and two...

I was sitting on a bed considering what had just happened. I was in a house that had more cats than I would prefer and more cobwebs and...

My friend Dan (half) jokes about how he has the spiritual gift of receiving hospitality. After visiting lots of people with him, I think...

brenda wang

Kia ora, I'm brenda, a Canadian transplant living in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Among other things, I've written a book, Generous Frugality: an alternative approach to money, which is based on two questions:

1) What if we measured wealth by how much we give away?

2) What if we're frugal so that we can be generous?

Join me on the journey toward a more just, more generous and more simple life.