redemption | Generous Frugality

sprouting hope

Sowing seeds gives me so much hope. I love knowing the family plants are from by the similarity of their seeds. I get excited carefully...

It's funny how the biggest trees or plants aren't usually the most fruitful. My unscientific understanding is that so much energy gets...

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

Searching for a kiwi - even on an island where they are fairly common - felt like an exercise in futility. Reading the log book in the...

It's amazing how natural processes of the earth give us metaphors for life. I was in a redwoods forest and learned about how a large tree...

Thoughtful eaters will sometimes talk about their gratefulness for animals giving their lives so that we can eat. While I was fishing...

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...

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.