: The 3 Most Meaningful - Buy Nothing New - Gifts that Won't cost Money or Mother Earth.

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One of the tricky things that comes up when making effort to consume less is how to go about giving gifts. All of our holidays, celebrations and birthdays seem to revolve around consumerism… so how do we kick the habit of buying and giving useless stuff that will probably end up collecting dust…

The Well of Grief

Those who will not slip beneath
the still surface on the well of grief
turning downward through its black water to the place we cannot breathe
will never know the source from which we drink, the secret water, cold and clear,
nor find in the darkness glimmering the small round coins
thrown by those who wished for something else.

David Whyte, Where Many Rivers Meet

The Sun

Have you ever seen 

anything

in your life

more wonderful

than the way the sun, 

every evening,

relaxed and easy,

floats toward the horizon

and into the clouds or the hills, 

or the rumpled sea,

and is gone—

and how it slides again

out of the blackness,

every morning,

on the other side of the world, 

like a red flower

streaming upward on its heavenly oils, 

say, on a morning in early summer,

at its perfect imperial distance—

and have you ever felt for anything

such wild love—

do you think there is anywhere, in any language, 

a word billowing enough

for the pleasure

that fills you, 

as the sun 

reaches out,

as it warms you

as you stand there, 

empty-handed—

or have you too

turned from this world—

or have you too 

gone crazy

for power,

for things?

-Mary Oliver

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