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May 10, 2014
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." --Hans Hofmann
The Love of Stuff
Nick Thorpe asks, "If Western consumer culture sometimes resembles a bulimic binge in which we taste and then spew back things that never quite nourish us, the ascetic, anorexic alternative of rejecting materialism altogether will leave us equally starved. Who, then, can teach me how to celebrate my possessions with the mindful, celebratory spirit of a gourmet?"
BE THE CHANGE
Think twice before you buy something this week, and if you do, put it to good use. Give something you already have away to someone who needs it.
