We resurfaced from the Covid-19 confinement of nearly two months with a renewed appreciation and soft spot in our hearts for the city parks of Valencia. They represent our little …
A Life Well Lived: Lizzie, the Best Dog Ever
It’s been two weeks since our Lizzie returned to the universe. She played like a puppy on Friday. Saturday the grand mal seizures began. She never recovered. Lizzie was in …
A Year of Yoga: Daily Practice
About 60 days into Spain’s CV-19 stay-at-home mandate, I realized something. Without making it a goal, I’d practiced yoga every single day for the entire time. Some sessions were shorter …
My Reckoning With Hidden Consumption: Part 2 — Food Waste
In Part I of this series I examined my clothing purchase habits in order to reduce my contribution to the fashion industry’s environmentally unsustainable practices. Part II is a similar …
My Reckoning With Hidden Consumption: Part 1 — Clothing
One of my many interests and aspirations is to lower my impact on earth. I feel a little guilty that I’m just getting around to this with my new retired …
Our Gentle Values and Their Measures
We are trying to live gently in the world, more gently than we ever have. We’ve been at this point before, when we were young, and again, and yet again …
Before the Sun: A Photo Project
It was early Sunday morning, the 29th day of December 2019. Lizzie, the best dog ever, and I were walking through the park. It was dark. Valencia had just begun …
Why Not a Self-Organized Family Yoga Retreat?
(Cats, dogs and a hippo, included) We decided to do something a little different with this post. We each independently wrote up the experiences and reactions we had to our …
Gone Vegan: The How, Why, and When of Our Gentle Diet
Going vegan is our idea of promoting a life of gentle living. It took us 20 years to get here but about three years ago we finally, fully adapted to …
How I Spent My First Ever Yoga Retreat at Yoga Sutra Shala
I’ve wanted to go on a yoga retreat for years but never got around to it. Recently I started to have the feeling that a rigorous week-long retreat just might …
Flipo en Verde – A Zero Waste Shop in Valencia
During our first months in Spain, we struggled just to find certain products. Our language skills weren’t very good, so some days even the grocery store seemed mysterious. Our primary …
Valencia is Good for Our Active Lifestyle
I’ve always known that I’m not particularly good at urban living. I’ve never once imagined a visit to New York, London, or Tokyo would be fun. Truth is, I shudder …
My Downsize Push Back… Can I Be Helped?
The culling that happens with any downsizing effort should kick the twin beasts of want and really want right in the butt. But not always. You would think that after …
Living Small: Our Approach to Consumption
When Susan and I decided to retire a year early, I worked out a comprehensive financial plan for early-retirement. The plan called for us to conscientiously economize for two years, …
Why We Started Streaking at Our Age
I remember streaking back in the 1970’s. I even tried it a few times…with friends under the cloak of darkness when not many people were around. It was a youthful …
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