Prayer Chapel – Part 3 – “A Thin Place”
Discovering “A Thin Place” There is an old Celtic saying, “Heaven and earth are only feet apart, but in those thin places the distance is smaller yet”. The Celts believed that a “thin place” is [...]
Chapel at Timber Butte – Part 2 – A labor of love
A labor of love... Building a foundation on the Chief Cornerstone The day Nancy and I went up the hill to stake out the location of the chapels future foundation we came upon [...]
A Prayer Chapel for Timber Butte Homestead
When passing through the entry gate at Timber Butte Homestead it’s difficult not to notice a granite rock chapel perched on a barren hill overlooking the ranch facilities. Although new, it has the ambiance of [...]
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 ideal worthy of pursuit. Total sustainability infers living a self [...]
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 vision and a plan. When people live deliberately they become [...]
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 A simplified life is not necessarily an easy life, it [...]
