An American food and travel writer, a reformed shopper, now living a rural, "slow" non-consumerism life in the south of France with her French husband and daughter. Poorer than dirt, but living like kings from the riches of the earth.
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August 2007-August 2008 we did not purchase anything. Only food and that was severely limited to the farmers markets and the organic co-op store. This year, we are doing an all-out No Shopping School Year: September 1st thru June 15th, we will not buy anything, not even food. We will use what abundance we have: what we preserved this summer, our garden, foraging, bartering, trading, living off what mother nature gives us.
Why am I doing this?
I embarked on this slow life after seeing the waste from two peoples lives cut short. My husband's family halved in one month and we were left to sort through their closets, sell the car, and shake our heads at the material “stuff” that lived on longer than his grandmother’s precious words and his father's new lease on life as a first time grandfather.
I realized further that we needed to do some soul searching and rid ourselves of material obligations. In fact, now after a successful year of not shopping, we will probably make it part of our lives instead of just a stunt year. This year we will cut out food shopping as well and rely on foraging, what organic food we have in the freezer, fishing, our CSA basket and what we can grow in containers on our small patio.
I am having fun with it, discovering so much about myself and our planet along the way and hopefully inspiring my close circle of friends and readers to do the same. We are happier, more content with what we have and cherish each other and what nature give us without the constraints of money in our lives.
Also, I feel more grounded and in touch with "mamie" who lived through some tough times and I am discovering her world and past generations traditions along the way. I feel very blessed to have stumbled upon this through the slow year.
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Weekend Cat Blogging! Summer curtains
I hung up the summer curtains and Lucky thinks that it is big fun...there are little crystals on the top that he thinks he must get! AH, AH!
Woohoo, its weekend cat blogging at
eatstuff.net, lets go see what Kiri is up to this weekend! Look, Lucky-- Kiri is car riding, just like you love to do! Happy travels!!
I hung up the summer curtains and Lucky thinks that it is big fun...there are little crystals on the top that he thinks he must get! AH, AH!
7 Comments:
I love splayed cat paws! What a beautiful curtain, too!
I hope the curtaind survived. It's a beautiful photograph. I love cats in silhouette.
Nice pix of Lucky. Hope he did not rip up yr beautiful curtain.
There a few little claw holes, but no rips thankfully. MIL and I made those curtains last summer and it was really hard doing all the detailed work at the top (they fold over and have little tabs with jewels at the top) so he is banned from playing with them...just after that one photo :)
That is a fabulous photo!!
Love this pic! What a handful your kitty must be.
It's a beautiful photo! "Phantom cat"!
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