intentional living | Generous Frugality

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Like you, I've felt like I've been in a holding zone for the past three months. New Zealand was in and out of lockdown in seven weeks...

Another poem for this timely moment where people are forced to slow down and stay home, written about my home: A taste - of a simpler...

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

It's taken me far too long to realise that I am a creator of things. It's simple, really, because we all are. Made in God's image, we...

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...

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.