seasons | Generous Frugality

anticipation

Ever since potting up trays of seeds three weeks ago, I've been anticipating spring. The seedlings aren't big enough to be planted...

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 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...

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...

Growing up in Canada, winter always meant deep layers of snow, months of sub-freezing temperatures and ground that was so hard that it...

"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...

Transitions are hard. We're neither here, nor there. There's uncertainty as what had been normal is no longer and new routines have yet...

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.