I can speak to the luxuries and adventures that happen when one pursues a simpler life.
What are things to consider and enjoy?
Knowing oneself well enough to know what you want from your mortal life.
Where to live.
What to drive (or not drive).
What projects to tackle and which ones to let lie low.
What to wear.
I wrote that line! "If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again." Somebody made the poster without asking, so I use the poster without asking....
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I'm not Financial Planner - don't come to me for Money Rules For a Retirement Income That Will Not Fail.
It's not hard to find experts who will teach us how to manage our children. But that both exhausts and bores me; I don't want a system. I don't want to maximize my kids' potential - whatever that might mean.
Kids are not adventure equipment, or status symbols, or raw material to channel through the factory of my ego-whims.
We North Americans have much to learn about poverty in the developing world and about what we can do to support our fellow humans who live in struggling-to-dire circumstances.
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