"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”

Henry D. Thoreau

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Rethinking Lifestyles

We prepare a weekly column that appears on page 7 in The Carillon and on mysteinbach.ca every week. It also appears as a blog: Rethinking Lifesyle.blogspot.com. Subscribe to it in your reader and join the discussion through the comment section. We also welcome 500 word essays from readers of the column and will publish essays germane to who we are. Send your essays to eric@southeasttransition.com.

Entries in Consumerism (2)

Tuesday
Jan102012

2012-01-10 An Ode to Walking (Part Two)

(without a mention of high gas prices)
I number it among my blessings that my father had no car…The deadly power of rushing about wherever I pleased had not been given me. I measured distances by the standard of man, man walking on his own two feet, not by the standard of the internal combustion engine …

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Monday
Jan092012

2012-01-09 An Ode to Walking (Part One)

A thoughtful essay lifting the merits of walking recently came to my attention. As written, it is too long for this column so it will be presented in  three columns. ER
What follows is the kind of congratulations-to-self that occasionally sits in my mind when I find myself walking while others drive. Nevertheless, it might serve as a kind of proposal for enshrining walking as a Christian form of transportation.

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