Yes it has been some time since I last posted to this blog. Still suffering from a bit of the “I’m not a good enough person to write this” miasma.

But there are issues of simple living that deserve to be discussed and written about so I’m back in the game.

Several people have posted replies lately suggesting that what is most valuable to them is to hear how other people are struggling with living simply on a day-to-day basis, so I’ll share a dilemma I’ve just been through.

You might have guessed, if you read very many posts on this blog, that I’m a bit of a Luddite. Actually I do believe that part of our current environmental, economic, and spiritual crisis is that humanity has grown and behaved like a cancer over the past few centuries (some writers say far longer)...