Moderately Minimal: Essays and Insights

Follow my stories while I stumble along with simplicity, downsizing, and journey moderately minimal.

It would take me many years to embrace the concept of living with less, but that afternoon was a beginning.

Living and working from home, finding my rhythm


What Emotional Issues Surrounding Clothing Are Swimming Around in Your Head?

Finding peace and tranquility in the chaos of the holidays




Earth and the Great Sea is my online journal, my open field to tell stories, think out loud, find inspiration, and share my inner and outer travels with simplicity and the rest of the world. I live with my family in California, based between the ocean and redwoods. Long morning walks, reading and writing are my practice, mediation and prayer, along with open spaces of stillness and solitude. Wander along with me.
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Writing, Reading and Living: Essays, Stories, and the Spaces Between

Some of my essays and stories are serious/substantial and are balanced with lighter topics. A dozen were first published decades ago. Some are new, and all have been previously published in a variety of publications. Most of all, my writing is timeless (vs timely).

Photo by Paul Wellman