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How To Be Poor: An Argument for Voluntary Poverty — Part Two
This is Part Two of the How To Be Poor introduction. Read Part One and Part Three. In this introduction and in the coming series of How To Be Poor posts, you’ll find that I’m arguing for voluntary...
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How To Be Poor: An Argument for Voluntary Poverty — Part Three
This is Part Three of the How To Be Poor introduction. Read Part One and Part Two. On The Road I have not been living poor the last few days. In fact, I’ve been living . . . well, if not quite rich by...
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When Money No Longer Gets Money
An entry in the How To Be Poor series Friday morning, I found myself sitting on the back patio of the town house my mother’s rented here in Sedona, Arizona, basking in a warm February sun with a good...
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Our Distorted View
An entry in the How To Be Poor series The idea that voluntary poverty is a challenge is one of the more ridiculous realities of our present situation. Yet it’s a reality, just the same. I was thinking...
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There are No Vegetarians in a Famine
An entry in the How To Be Poor series To better understand the distorted viewpoint of our culture that I wrote about in the last post, I want to talk about food and diet. As I tend to reference my own...
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Ending Our Exuberance
An entry in the How To Be Poor series In my previous entry in the How To Be Poor series on voluntary poverty, I argued that many people’s dietary choices reveal the sort of luxury we have available to...
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The Circus Comes to Town
An entry in How To Be Poor As has likely been noticed by regular readers, the How To Be Poor series on voluntary poverty has not seen a new entry in over two months. In the last post in the series,...
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A New Year’s Plan: Worshipping the Earth
I’ve always enjoyed New Year’s Eve and the ensuing New Year’s Day. The midnight celebrations of the new year strike me as somewhat magical moments, with a fresh year stretched out before me and all its...
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The Reductionist Trap
An entry in How To Be Poor One of the primary troubles with living well in a time of peak oil and deindustrialization is the tendency in our society to think in reductionist patterns rather than within...
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Live in the Margins
An entry in How To Be Poor In the previous entry in this series, The Reductionist Trap, I wrote about a possible diet I could eat that would seem to be sustainable and practical, given my circumstances...
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