Simple Living | Right For Right Now
Sometime during the wane of last summer, I began to consider how I might shift some things, adjust choices and habits to better align with my penchant for simplicity and my inspiration toward stewardship. I’m relieved that I can do that - make changes to life as I go. Thankfully there’s grace to learn along the way, to not have everything right, but to have enough right for right now. To settle in, then, with the new habit and let it take hold. To go ahead and live it until it’s part of my stride. Live the right for right now. And find, in the process, that I’ve trained my eye, a little bit more, to better see when the opportunity for the next choice, the next shift, the next pin and tuck and tailor arrives.
These new adaptations were small but significant (most are). Making more sustainable purchase choices (hello biodegradable toothbrush and refillable floss), identifying ways to lessen our household waste (despite me being somewhat of a household minority in the endeavor), and devising a plan for recycling (a heretofore challenge I was finally ready to lay a plan for) were the simple, yet motivating next steps toward better stewardship.
No doubt I’ll write about the details of these things in upcoming posts, but I wanted first to encourage us. The awareness and implementation of what may be better choices for our homes, our lifestyles, and our environment need not come with regret or shame. It’s easy to think back and wonder why we’d not made such-and-such a change before now, how this much time could have past before a particular understanding, conviction, or determination took hold.
Loves? We’re all doing the best we can. We’re all learning, finding our way. This isn’t about who’s doing sustainability best or who’s producing less waste or who’s supporting local most. It’s not a measurement of failure or success. It’s about learning, about growing, about caring. Caring about and caring for, and finding our line of peace along the way.
I’m curious, what ways of simplicity, sustainability, or stewardship have you implemented that feel right for right now?