The other day Andre told me about a movement called Voluntary Simplicity. (For more info see: http://www.simpleliving.net/). I had never heard of it but that evening (synchronetically--is that a word?) the chapter I was reading in Not Buying It was titled "In/Voluntary Simplicity" and was on this very topic. Because she lives in Brooklyn, Levine was able to find a "Voluntary Simplicity" group right around the corner from where she lives; her description of her attendance at one of their meetings is laugh-out-loud funny. She does make make the movement sound less appealing (very earnest, a little sad) than the website Andre sent me (which I found intriguing for its back-to-the-farm planting suggestions which I immediately began picturing in our garden--no doubt unrealistically, especially because I was picturing my homemade wooden planter boxes alongside the chickens and goat that Joel is not eager to get). I found the planter instructions in the Newsletter which you can get to from the website above; the homepage of the website, though, is unappealing and odd in its push to "sell" simplicity.
For a good interview with Richard Sennett, the author of The Craftsman (referred to in an earlier post) see: http://www.utne.com/Spirituality/Crafting-a-New-World.aspx
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