courage | Generous Frugality

Poem for the Wandering (5)

I walk alone, in the woods - leaving everyone behind. All of what and who I know not here. The mountains beckon my gaze upward. I look...

I love tramping (hiking). You put everything you need in a backpack, turn off your phone and walk. In New Zealand, after several hours,...

"What the heck am I doing?!" I thought to myself. I was a few hours into a very challenging hike - alone, in the clouds and climbing...

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...

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.