My wife is trying to sell her car. She still owed payments on it so I paid the car off from our savings with the plan being that she’d pay back our savings after she sold the car. It’s just easier to sell a car when you have the title in hand.
Living a Simple Life
About getting back to the basics of living a happy, simple life.
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Sometimes Life Just Isn’t That Simple
Be Better Off
You really can be better off by turning things off. That’s the premise of Better Off, a book by Eric Brende, which chronicles his 18-month journey of self-discovery in an Amish-like settlement somewhere in middle-America. I really enjoyed this book for several reasons. First, I like that Eric was exploring the balance between technology and simplicity and trying to find the right recipe for him and his family. If you read our “about” page or pay attention to this blog at all you’ll know why that appeals to me.
Q&A With Joel Salatin
This interview with Joel Salatin was originally published on one of my other websites – US Recall News. The questions center around food safety for that reason.
A Few Things to Check Out…
I am totally swamped these days with the Homesteading Group, turning my front yard into a low-water, edible landscape, tilling up my back yard, taking care of the animals, working at work, working on my own websites at home, buying a farm in Virginia… It’s crazy! But that’s the way I like it. 
We’re in the Denver Post Today
We are in the Denver Post today in an article about Urban Homesteading. To be honest, I feel a bit like a fraud being called an “urban homesteader”. We are not anywhere near where we want to be yet, and I don’t think we are worthy of that label. But if some others here in Denver read the article and decide to make even a small change then I’m all for it.
The Full Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’ve often seen this passage by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Ode to William H. Channing used on Simple Living or Voluntary Simplicity blogs. But they always take it out of context and just say “Things are in the saddle and ride mankind”. When you read the entire poem, you understand that “things” are meant to include more than just color televisions, and if we were to literally try to get off the saddle we’d have to be naked with no possessions. Simple living isn’t so simple, really, when you include plants, animals and other things that you have to take care of.
On Not Being a Luddite
For those of you who don’t know what Luddite means, it is used to describe people who reject progress. More specifically, it refers to the British Luddites, textile workers of the early nineteenth century who protested Industrial Revolution “progress” by destroying the mechanized looms that threatened to put them out of work.
My First Post
Things are in the saddle
and ride Mankind.
I wanted to start this blog out with my favorite quote from Emerson. Now it’s time to get started building pages.
About Us
We're not technophobes or Luddites. We simply believe that people have lost some important things in the march toward progress. That is not to say progress and simplicity are mutually exclusive. We believe we can have both, and this site catalogs our journey as we try to do exactly that.