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✨ One idea to keep it slow and simple… An account of what matters

Have you watched the three-part PBS series on Henry David Thoreau? Highly recommend!

In Thoreau’s Walden his main goal, as he writes it, is to provide “a simple and sincere account of his own life” in his cabin in the woods where he lived simply for two years.

He takes that accounting quite seriously, and in the chapter on “Economy” he identifies only four necessesities for living: food, shelter, clothing, and fuel. (We might add community to the list.) He then gives detailed accounts of how he goes about acquiring these necessities.

And while he accounts for where his money goes, he is most concerned with accounting for his time and thus his freedom.

If you were to keep a detailed account of everything you spend time and money on for a day or a week, what do you think you would see? How would it make you feel? What would you change if you could?

✨One idea to keep it slow and simple… Coffee with neighbors

Friends, there is a way forward to a more sustainable, equitable, and caring world. It’s just that we can’t get there alone. Not as indiviuals. Not as siloed families. Not as insular friend groups.

It takes community in the biggest and broadest sense we can manage.

So, fire up that big auto-drip machine and invite the whole neighborhood to drop by. Get out to your locally-owned, community-based business and start chatting up the people you see. Subscribe to community newsletters and follow local sources.

Have coffee with neighbors and neighbors of neighbors and their neighbors, too. Choose a morning or afternoon or evening—once per week or per month—and make it regular and sustained.

Then start talking. If not now, then when?

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Saturday To Do List:

☑️ Make Yummy Coffee
☑️ Drink Yummy Coffee
☑️ Boil my CoffeeSock Filters

Easy to do with our all natural cleaning tablets! 🌱
If you notice your flow is starting to slow, pop a tablet in your monthly-ish boil to remove the oil buildup! 🙌