Day three, I gave away a brick bolster. Yeah, I didn’t know what one of those was either. I’m working on de-paving part of my back-yard with the ultimate goal of creating a forest garden where now there is only concrete. Last weekend, Mike and I set up a small pond in theContinue reading “Day 3: Sharing through Giving with the Edinburgh Tool Library”
Category Archives: (re)storying the personal
Day 2: Stories of 29 Gifts
Gifting is a little addictive. Spurred on by my soupsploits yesterday, I picked up a box of my favourite gluten-free, dairy-free truffles from Booja Booja to mail to a friend whose been having a bit of rough time lately. Incidentally, I was first introduced to Booja Booja by receiving a box as a thank you giftContinue reading “Day 2: Stories of 29 Gifts”
Day 1: A New Story of Gifting Soup
Over the last few months I’ve been working my way through Charles Eisenstein’s book, Sacred Economics. At the heart of the book is a call for a return to an economy based on gift-giving. Finding a way out of the growth economy system we are currently tangled up in is not only essential for theContinue reading “Day 1: A New Story of Gifting Soup”
Restorying the Earth 