Breaking The Silence

I am home today slightly sick and achy... but this definitely was worth posting!

Notes From The Frugal Trenches

Wow. What an inspiring blog! I haven't read very many posts, but so far it is filled with common sense, compassion, and so much love... I am very lucky to have found it! :)

Life is busy and eventful, as usual.

I am looking forward to the WholeFu challenge on RawFu that's starting up next week. Excited, nervous, hopeful.

Peace

A Peaceful Existence

Monastery, originally uploaded by Der Hannes.

Lately I've been doing a lot of thinking on peace and how we can cultivate it in our lives. What brings me peace? What brings peace to my family? Our home? Our relationships with each other? Our relationship with the earth?


One of the things I've found a lot of inspiration and guidance from is A Quiet Mind. Robert offers a lot of food for thought and some great insight on how to find peace through acceptance. It is from a mostly Buddhist perspective, although I think anyone who has an interest in peaceful living and/or meditation would find a lot of good in it.

So, back to the point. How do you cultivate peace in your lfe? Do you cultivate peace spiritually? Physically? Is mental peace different from emotional peace? What about peace in our lifestyle, living simply?

I have so many thoughts on this that I am going to have to do many posts!! There are a lot of times where I am striving for peace in my life and failing miserably. How about you?

Some things I've been finding inspiration in right now are:

Mama Om - a blog by a mama of 2 boys, trying to live and parent peacefully.

Mindful Kids - I haven't had a chance to properly look over this website, but it looks very promising.

Peace

Interested?

I am really interested in environmental issues, among other things. Some great websites for more information or how you can do you part are:

Tree Hugger - current events
Mothering Forum - natural family living forum
Simple Living - simple living forum and website
Freecycle - give and receive free items - disrupt the waste cycle!
Instructables - how to, diy instruction site
Environmental Working Group -more than you ever wanted to know about chemicals in our products, including the Skin Deep database for cosmetics

There is so much we can do by making small changes in our lives. Hopefully some of these sites will inspire you to make some positive changes!

Peace