Month: September 2021

One’s essential nature is what we are born with and then conditions happen and in absorbing them we make meaning out of them. The meaning we make begins to define us. It is easier to see when a small child becomes sick. In defining ourselves […]

When Andy’s and my business of making and selling welded bronze jewelry took off, we wanted to share our good fortune and had read about the concept of tithing. We discovered that receiving was a way to be generous. When Andy’s and my business of […]

Exploring our mountain forest and sledding was free. I had learned to practice yoga when I was a teenager and I taught my family, which cost no money. 1) Without purchasing power we looked to what was free in the world. 2) We learned to […]

Living on our land and in our housetruck was essentially free because we’d paid for it as we built it, not using credit. It was free but it also wasn’t finished. Getting home, securing minimum wage jobs and having no money was hard. We had […]

We used our credit cards to get home to Taos, New Mexico. When our business was thriving, we’d bought undeveloped land in a mountain forest. Andy had built a house on the back of a flatbed 1960 Ford truck and we’d parked it on the […]