Posted on September 26, 2008 by simplestewardship
We are living in really, really, really scary days. Our financial institutions are falling right and left all because of greedy, bad investment strategies in an overinflated housing market. When the bubble burst, the banks started bleeding red ink. Now our government has stepped in and nationalized some of them. Even worse, it wants to [...]
Filed under: Family, Finances, Life | Tagged: bad loans, bailout, failed banks, Finances, simple living, tax dollars | 2 Comments »
Posted on September 21, 2008 by simplestewardship
Have you ever been to one of those workshops where you came away with so much information you felt like your head was going to explode – in a good way? Well, that was my day today. I attended Plan C for OKC at the operations center of the Oklahoma Food Cooperative. Bob Waldrop, our [...]
Filed under: Conservation, Environment, Family, Gardening, Health, Life | Tagged: energy, food stockpile, food supply, Gardening, national emergency, power, rain barrels, water, water catchment | 2 Comments »
Posted on September 16, 2008 by simplestewardship
I haven’t been inspired to write much lately. But today I am. It is the time of year in Oklahoma where we get a small window, a few blissful weeks, of absolutely flawless weather. The long unbearably humid days of summer are behind us – a little early, it seems, this year. The wind is calm [...]
Filed under: Life, Religion | Tagged: Fall, God, migrating geese, monarch butterfly, the Creator | Leave a Comment »