Sustainable Living
Sustainable Living
Today I am adding a new category to my blog: Sustainable Living.
I know, this sounds like yet another "Green" initiative. That is partially true: I DO want to do my part to keep our planet livable, but the story doesn't end there.
I am talking about "Sustainable Living" in a much broader sense. I am referring to every aspect of how we live our lives: food, hobbies, sleep, social time, work, and so on. I am introducing this category because, in the past two years, I have done a lot of intentional work on making my life more sustainable.
Today, it seems as though everyone is on a treadmill, and few of us know how to navigate it properly. Beyond that, even fewer people know how to stop it, or take control of their own lives long enough to step off the treadmill and look at where, why, and how fast they were going.
This category will focus on any ideas I come across that I think could help us live more sustainable (aka "human friendly") lives, and will include thoughts and reflections I have about walking this path in my own life.
One of the best ironies about this whole topic is that I intended to post this entry last week, but because I was too busy getting ready for a 4-day ski vacation (and working late into the night to be "ready"), I ran out of time to complete it to my satisfaction. So, here it is, being posted 5 days later, again late at night as I wind up 2 days' work and prepare to "unplug" for a further 5 days "off", during which I plan to focus on home organizing projects. Ah yes, who is it that needs this column badly? 
To balance.
