reflections | Generous Frugality 2/2

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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...

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

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...

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...

Poem for our earth Slain and crushed, using credit that ran out long ago Sickness sears our souls, mutes colours and smells and tastes....

Ever since I moved to the Southern Hemisphere, I found that I've had no intuitive sense of the time of year. I knew intellectually that...

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...

"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 spent a good part of two months this southern hemisphere spring pulling weeds from organic gardens. In those hours, I had a chance 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.