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Some Sore Paw Thoughts
Genius & Why you Shouldn't Judge a Fish by What it Can't Do
Why I'm Lukewarm on Heroes
Mindful Chickens - the "It's been a while" edition
Mindful Chickens in Canada
The Erie Canal; Means and Dreams
Crown Point, Ticonderoga, and Saratoga
Hurricane Charley, 2004 "Why yes, we were there."
"The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley..."
Gaspé Peninsula & MB's Big Hike to See Gannets
Following the St. Lawrence River: “Further up and further in.”
The Day the Niagara Escarpment Won
Let's go to Canada. It will be beautiful and convenient and nothing will get too crazy.
An afternoon in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Mountain Top Toddler
"Death Comes for the Archbishop" and How to drive to the Y without a map.
When Weaving is NOT a Metaphor
How Big IS Grandma? Do You Need More Space?
How I saved Tens of Thousands of Dollars Lately and also got a New Kazoo
Retirement Smackdown
Cahokia
Where & What is Beauty?
Remembering Karen and Judy
Remembering Judy and Karen
4th Thoughts
"No Felons Here"
Pastor Betty Rendon has been Deported by Our ICE
Spring is Blooming!
In Honor of Honor
Less Lemming, More Living
Mindful Chickens/ The "Before its Too Late" Edition 5-14-2019
We have to change how we live ...
A Long Ago (sort of) American Camelot on the Mississippi
Bread, Tortillas, and Chocolate
Where are the Movies that don't Blither and Lie?
Sandhill Cranes of Kearny at Dawn
Mindful Chickens – Carrot & Grape Oatmeal 3/23/2019
There's No Place Like Home 5/31/2003
My Husband, The Mouser 8/9/2002
"Laura Jean's Cello" Dec 13, 1996
Journey to Happiness
Mindful Chickens – Windy Sunday 2/24/19
Love, two days later.
Franc's half-minute of Fame - And do you recycle?
Mindful Chickens - “Are We Lit Yet?”
Mindful Chickens – The “It’s been a while...” edition 1/18/2019
#UTLAStrong!
Sermon - Courage / Roses on the Columbia
Sermon - "Why do we attend church? Um, I can't remember."
Sermon - The Story of Ruth & Naomi / Who We Welcome is Who We Are
Sermon - Julian of Norwich / She Persisted
Sermon - From Auden's "For The Time Being"
Some Unrelated Observations 12/31/18
A Small, True Christmas Eve Story
Field of Dogs
The Choosing Season
A Small Owl
The Arrows of Yore
Make Persimmon Cookies; Don’t make a Persimmon Life.
Outside on a Very Cold Night
Buy Angry
Four Days Up North
Frugality and Privacy
Missionary Types in the Mississippi Watershed in the 1600’s. Oh yeah.
Want to meet Franc and learn to make his Mom’s Sofrito?
Mindful Chickens – Up North Weekend Edition 9/24/18
Mindful Chickens 9/15/18 & The Scattered Schedule of Retirement
Mindful Chickens in September 9/8/2018
Nomadland. How people live well enough when there is no way to live well.
Len's Marinated Story Starts
Mindful Chickens 9/1/2018 Merle Haggard edition
Honduras 2005 - Short Takes from a Short Trip
Mindful Chickens - 8/25/2018
Vole No Longer on the Dole
Mindful Chickens (eight-eighteen-eighteen)
Detroit!
Too Much Stuff
"Learning to Live Authentically" - Interview with Lee Lee McKnight
Franc's Extravagantly Frugal Garden
Mindful Chickens- Xpensive Milk & Cheap Capri's 7/11/2018
What's in Vanilla?
Read this, Friends. "Home" by Warsan Shire
"One must have sunshine..." Living Life Forward
To Never Return - “No Great Mischief” by Alistair MacLeod
Mindful Chickens a Month Later
Our Un-rocky 4000 Mile Road Trip to the Rockies
Mindful Chickens - Chicago Edition
Mindful Chickens on an Icy Night
(Don't) Send in the Clowns
Two Chickens and a 3-Legged Lamb
"Something Happened Here"
Other Peoples' Mindful Chickens
A Moment in America this Morning
Marching for Our Lives in Milwaukee Today
Retired Chicken Observations 3/22-2018
Franc’s Wildly Successful Life
That Thing You Found or Made
Chicken to Eat and Three Billboards
Mindful Chickens 2/24/2018
What It's Like (for me anyways) to Preach
Valentine's Moments
Mindful Chickens - The Snickerdoodle Edition
Home Maintenance aka Early Religions
Not Admiring Duty
Frugal Stuff/ Flu edition 1/22/2018
Two Piquant Recipes, No Waiting
What's in that Museum?
Health Insurance when you are laid off
Mindful Chickens - Frugal Stuff 1/11/2018
"Must-Haves" 1/10/2018
Surprise Dancing Lessons 1/7/2018
December Seen Things 12/31/2017
My New Year’s Resolution
Mindful Chickens 12/27/2017
Interview with a Mother - Mary Helena's Empty Arms
An Interview with a Traveler from Afar - Far Places & Strange Sights
What's Up at the Inn?
Not Buying Presents for Christmas? What Fresh Hell is this?
An Interview with a Shepherd (Actually, he's a Dairy Farmer)
December 18th
How Fit Do You Want to Be?
How To Visit New York City on $1 a Day (hah)
The Chicken is Thinking 12/11/2017
December 8th
Fluyts and Taxes
December 7th
How to Save Hundreds on Fresh Herbs!
Is eBay worth it?
Thanks Giving Plan - Six Quick Steps
Shop Justice to Share Love
The Wedding
Mindful Chickens 11/15/2017
American Clutter
Peace Makers' Freedom Train / 1984
Balance and Distraction
Rites of Passage; They Pop Up Everywhere
From Our Hit Parade of $ Mistakes
A Fairy Tale for People who are Generous for No Good Reason that Anyone Can Understand.
Mindful Chickens 10/23/2017
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell - a book review
Vivian Woke Up Drowning
10 Things I Learned By 65
The House in Blue River
Walking and Seeing 10/13/2017
Credit Freezing
Mindful Chickens 10/6/2017 and 10/11/2017
How to Make Tortillas - the long version
Barkskins, by Annie Proulx - MB's book review
Mindful Chickens 9-26-17
Vietnam Era Frugal Skills
Mindful Chickens 9/19/2017
Margaret Fuller - Letting Light In
Ode to Outside
Mindful Chickens 9/15/2017
Dear Friends
Paul Hessert - "He taught us"
A Memorial to Penny Penrose
17 Minutes of Joy
Invite Me to Speak - It's not SIMPLE life, it's Simpler Life
Invite Me to Speak - How to Retire on Less than a Half Million
Invite Me to Speak - The Simple Art of Raising Children in your Spare Time
Sermon - Who We Welcome is Who We Are - The Book of Ruth
Invite Me to Speak - Our Relationship to the "Developing World" An Education in Respect and Empathy
Two Handsome Farmers
MindfulChickens - Hunting for Watermelons that are Not There
Pre-Xmas Thoughts
The Frugal Craft of Sewing - Clown Edition
The Frugality of Gang Life
The $42 Birthday Party for 10 Adults
Lincoln, Conflict, Character
Are you Accountable or Flexible?
Death and that Space where Love Still Lives
The Human Condition on a Monday
Anne Hutchinson PERSISTED...
The Boston Tea Party. "It's complicated..."
Two rocks later: Civilization!
Beauty and the Beast (actually, a coyote)
Sermon - "Can I get hurt if I stand in front of an Open Canon?"
Obscene Wealth and Violent Pirates
Sunny Funerals
Old Marriages
Getting off the Tilt-A-Whirl
Mint
Andy's Three Magical Tasks
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Lost in the Waubicon
How to Buy an Ad
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We have to change how we live ...

May 14, 2019

Posted by Mary Beth

We can’t go on like this. Our everyday Western/American lifestyle -- is utterly unsustainable.

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