humanness | Generous Frugality

conditions for growth

Two seeds from the same packet, sown into the same potting mix at the same time, planted into the soil on the same day when they were the...

I've never been so frustrated with cooking. After harvesting a huge basket full of rhubarb, cutting off the leaves and spreading them...

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

A poorly equipped camping trip recently found us with damp firewood, no kindling, no axe or hatchet to make kindling, no newspaper and...

As I've been making decisions about my work future in the past couple months, I've realized how I'm closer and yet farther from where I...

I've built more fires in the last six months of my life than ever before. In New Zealand, homes are not heated centrally and wood fires...

[I offer this from my journal from September 20 in reflection of Matthew 25. I had been staying at a marae - Maori community hall - with...

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.