meaningful work | Generous Frugality

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

I sat listening to the radio one day, cutting fabric to sew into reusable sandwich wraps, and thought to myself, "This is much more fun...

It's amazing when you realise what you don't need. Our western consumer culture is so foreign to the idea of lack. But, when time or...

Even though I've been a vegetarian on and off for twelve years, I jumped at the opportunity to help cull (ie, slaughter) a couple...

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...

A few months ago, I spent several hours putting packets of frozen meat into boxes. We were on a timeline so we worked quickly. It was...

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.