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I found treasure!
I found a treasure yesterday. I value personal achievement and striving for what is best for you. My new found treasure is a blog. The central theme is Living a simple life. The sub-title at the top is
We discuss vegetable and fruit gardening, slowing down and being mindful, cooking simple food, keeping chickens and worms, composting, green cleaning, stockpiling and preserving, living well on a small amount of money, working within the community and how to change the habits of a consumer to those of a conserver.
Rhonda Jean uses friendly conversation with bits of life journal to convey to younger people (and others) how to find your own brand of simple living. She intersperses her posts with photos of her home including her garden and crafts. I find it very inspiring, and so do all the readers. She welcomes comments and replies in a bit of a forum threadlike fashion.
She posts on the idea of simple living from time to time as well as what she is doing. Below is an excerpt from one of her posts.
Whatever your circumstances are, you can fashion a life that will simplify your daily tasks, help you nurture yourself and your family and lead you to discover that a simple life is like a patchwork – it’s pieced together slowly, unpicked sometimes, composed of a mish-mash of colours and textures and is different for everyone, depending on the fabric of your life. But when one stands back from a completed patchwork, it’s complexity becomes apparent. It’s no longer pieces of this and that, it builds into a functional piece that gives warmth, beauty and comfort.
If you like the idea of slowing down and jumping off the neverending treadmill of the ratrace, no matter where you are, take the time to read her blog. It will be well worth it.
Down To Earth – Rhonda Jean
Excerpt from “Not the step-by-step guide to simple living”