Sustainability – More than an idealistic lifestyle
Attempting to live a fully sustainable life on a planet with a population approaching eight billion people may be an impossibility, but it’s still an [...]
Steps for a Simplified & Sustainable Life – A series
Step 4 – Live deliberately A deliberate life is one lived with a sense of purpose. It’s a life committed to the fulfillment of a [...]
Steps for a Sustainable/Simplified Life – Downsizing for the sake of up-sizing our lives
Todd Johnson replaces a chain saw carburetor in my newly organized shop. Step 3 - Downsizing for the sake of up-sizing our lives [...]
Steps to a More Sustainable/Simplified Life – Defining your Vision
Step Two - Defining Your Vision... If you were to visit Timber Butte Ranch you may notice a sign hung high under the crown of [...]
Steps to a More Sustainable/Simplified life – Answering the question
Step one - Asking the question “What is it you want?” – More than a question, but a prayer Tri & Nancy contemplating the [...]
Steps To a More sustainable/Simplified Life – A series
Introduction – A choice for a road less traveled Simplicity is a dream worthy of pursuit, but one difficult to achieve in [...]
Sustainability and simplicity – Still worthy goals
Is the world getting crazier, more complex, politically outrageous and therefore less sustainable for all life? Are we living like frogs in a kettle, adapting [...]
Merry Christmas from Timber Butte – Past & Present
Christmas 1980 Nancy, Tri, Kate and Brook with Pet - a favorite pony Reminiscing of Christmas’s past yet relishing in Christmas’s present. Still [...]
The Life and Times of Jacob – A story of destiny
When people meet Jacob for the first time they often become confused. Some think he’s a goat because he has hair instead of wool while [...]
Changing of the Season in a changing world
We woke to a fresh skiff of snow on the slopes of Timber Butte this morning. The air had a brisk bite and the animal’s [...]
