“You don’t need to go to India to escape materialism. If you want to escape materialism, quit being materialistic.”
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly—it’s the best advice ever given me. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, my darling.”
Today’s Front Pages From the Americas
New York Post (bottom center) still keeping it classy.
Images: Via the Newseum. Select to embiggen.
Nothing like a ton of great newspaper pages to put The New York Post’s front in perspective.
Really, New York Post?
“If you can afford a fancy car, you can make more of an impact driving an ordinary one.”
This is quite in line with what I have been thinking about these days…the responsibility that goes hand in hand with purchasing power.
Goodbye Waffle Maker
This website is no longer active, but I find it a fascinating anthropological glimpse into one person’s unwanted possessions. I particularly like how everything is reduced to the same value with equal real estate on the page: a Sharpie and a beloved shirt—once having had such different uses, worth, and meaning—here become the same thing: stuff to shed in order to move closer to the life one wants.
“An economy that chases perpetually increasing production and consumption, always in search of more, stands no chance of achieving a lasting prosperity. We need an economy that can meet our needs without undermining the life-support systems and resources of the planet. The book argues that now is the time to change the economic goal from the madness of more to the wisdom of enough.”
Jacket copy for the forthcoming “Enough is Enough: Building a sustainable economy in a world of finite resources” by Rob Dietz and Dan O’Neill (out Feb. 28th)
Need something? Spin the wheel to see how you can borrow, not buy.
(via http://unstash.com/, apparently originally from http://www.collaborativeconsumption.com, but I can’t find it posted on their site.)
20 money lessons for kids
Yes! So happy to see this website.
A nice reminder not to get sucked in by enticing labels and marketing claims. Next time you want something “simply orange,” how about an actual orange?
