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Becoming neighborly | 3 Sisters Simplify
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. By kelslundberg on July 14, 2011. Acting neighborly. It shouldn’t be so hard, but it seems our culture sometimes makes it a struggle to truly be a neighbor. There are likely many culprits to this cultural shift the television waning away our 2-way relational instincts, the cacophony of safety terrorists in the media, marketers creating and capitalizing on America’s I society. Then it really hit home when my husband ran into a neighbor on the way to grab the mail. We’ve...
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Planting something meaningful | 3 Sisters Simplify
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. By kelslundberg on April 19, 2010. Today was the first day of planting. I just received the bounty of seeds I ordered from Seed Savers Exchange. And I needed an excuse to get out of the house the weather was beautiful. My husband and I live in a suburban town home. We love almost everything about it except there is no yard. A few years ago I spent time with a family who grew their own vegetables and raised their own meat. I saw the way it made them slow down...Frankly, ...
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Home cooking made hard | 3 Sisters Simplify
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. Home cooking made hard. By kelslundberg on October 9, 2010. I’ll be honest, actual cooking is laborious and challenging it’s not all quaint traditions that leave you feeling warm and satisfied. You know what I mean. Real cooking that uses frustrating ingredients like yeast and verbs you have to Google like blanching. Setbacks aside, there have been some successes like the narcotic mushroom ravioli that I made with my dad last week. Although the noodle was too eggy (tha...
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9,600 empty beds | 3 Sisters Simplify
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. 9,600 empty beds. By kelslundberg on September 15, 2010. According to Wikipedia, there are about 9,600 households in my city. If each of these households has one spare bedroom, that would mean there are 9,600 empty beds just in my town. I’ll confess that I’ve had two spare rooms in my town home since I moved here 3 years ago. And it has started to weigh on me. Behind this farce, this rouge, I’ve lived. Beneath this conception that if I were really successful, I’d have ...
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Kicking the sensation addiction | 3 Sisters Simplify
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. Kicking the sensation addiction. By kelslundberg on October 26, 2010. As the leaves fall, the sun no longer gives off its sweltering rays. The grass, crisp with frost, crunches underfoot in the early morning, which arrives at my window later each day. Night too, begins to come quickly. This is when I begin my seasonal lament. As I was spending some down time reading this week, Annie Dillard. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The lif...
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On board | 3 Sisters Simplify
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. By hbulger on November 18, 2010. I have been reading my sister’s delightful, insightful posts, and have felt inadequate. I was driving to hell, or Montana, and back, how could I talk? I was helping to introduce marginalized populations to the wild yonder, I had to have been doing good, right? Over sustainability like you have no interest in your kids and no interest in tomorrow or the future of this beautiful planet? I know he didn’t judge me because he could tell I had al...
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The knitting bug bites | 3 Sisters Simplify
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. The knitting bug bites. Posted in Handmade Goodness. By kelslundberg on August 1, 2010. It’s that time of year when I get the nagging urge to knit. The bug usually goes dormant in mid-March after many long winter hours of casting on and yarning over. But in July it awakes and gradually begins to takes over. And I find that my hours usually set aside for reading and writing slip away. For me, knitting has also become a kind of prayer. So here’s to another season of ya...
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A simple plea for a new direction | 3 Sisters Simplify
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. A simple plea for a new direction. By kelslundberg on March 7, 2012. Sometimes I get distracted. I get swept away and caught up in the stream. But soon, the consumption high wore off and I realized I was back to where I started minus a few hundred dollars. This week I heard somebody. Say that if God is real, they wanted to be a part of it. But how do I turn around? How do I go against the flow of this dense stream that’s swept me away? If God is real, I want to be a part o...
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That tricky work-life balance | 3 Sisters Simplify
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. That tricky work-life balance. By kelslundberg on June 5, 2010. I’ve been on hiatus from life. Work took control, and I’m in recovery, slowly restoring a natural balance. For the past three months, I worked away at something that in the end received little appreciation, and today seems almost forgotten. Weekends, nights, no lunch breaks, all for relatively few kind remarks. It’s a good lesson for an over achiever to learn. Life is a gift. I’d rather fill it with ...8220;we...
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