Rethinking Lifestyle

When I was a kid, my mom never ever made bread. I doubt that my grandmother even made bread because they lived in a city with bakeries and grocery stores.

No time to bake your own bread, you say? Maybe, by the end of this post, I can convince you to try.

All around us are warnings of a recession. I admit that for some this will indicate a rough time ahead, but it doesn’t have to be.

At this time of the year, one’s thoughts turn quite naturally to Stonehenge and Dr. Seuss… or mine did.

Our planet Earth was wonderfully created, a world with many systems in balance. Within a few short decades, human activity has dramatically affected those systems, throwing them out of balance.

A worldview is a set of beliefs that is the foundation for our understanding of life and the world. This set of beliefs is a lens through which we interpret what we see and experience in the world.

My house is three km. from the Clearspring Mall. I can walk that distance in 35 minutes. If I’m in a hurry, I take my car. It then takes me six minutes. So walking is really quite inefficient. After all, time is money.

Steinbach, in common with all other cities in North America, is built around the car. Businesses situate themselves assuming customers and employees will be using a car, home-buyers give no thought to proximity of shopping places or a job. Streets are wide and large areas are devoted to parking.

We’ve owned an electric car for two and a half years, and here are the answers to some frequently asked questions.

Our new city council is now in place, and if the councillors’ pre-election promises are to be taken seriously, the council members are all committed to growing the city. But is that indeed what we want?