About

Thanks for visiting Simply Enough. This blog is for people who care about our planet and its inhabitants and want to practice simple living to make the world a better place.

I’m so glad you stopped by!

The Unfortunate Facts

Over one billion of our global brothers and sisters are starving. Animal species are going extinct 100 to 1000 times faster than the average rate. The planet is slowly being destroyed by industrial agriculture, deforestation, and pollution.

Since the Industrial Revolution, we have made great strides in our ability to support a growing global population. Unfortunately, the resulting impact on the world’s poor and our planet has been devastating. Rather than taking advantage of technology to allow more time for hobbies and personal development, we have become caught up in a race to work more so we can earn more so we can buy more stuff.

In fact, this is the only socially accepted life pattern in the United States: go to college, get a well-paying job, buy a car, buy a house, work 60 hours a week, get a promotion, buy a nicer car, buy a bigger house, and so on.

My American Dream Story

For years, I lived this pattern. I let work consume my life. This led to promotion after promotion, which consequently led to a higher income. With this higher income, we were able to buy a bigger house. A house with rooms we rarely used. A house that required more natural resources to maintain than our rightful share.

At our housewarming party, a friend from New Zealand half-jokingly remarked: “Well, you have achieved the ‘American Dream.’ You have this great, big house and no time to spend in it.” That was the beginning of my wake-up call. As I pondered his comment, I realized that money really did not buy happiness. Rather, happiness comes from within, from having meaningful relationships, and from positively contributing to the global community.

Simple Living for a Better World

Since then, I have studied the impact of our blindly consumerist lifestyle on the environment and our global family, the freedom of voluntary simplicity, solutions for ending poverty, and any other topic that would help me figure out how to live simply and not take more than my share.

This site is a collection of my reflections on simple living, thoughts on how we can end global poverty, and hopefully a source of inspiration for those of you looking to break out of the established pattern and embrace the beauty of enough.

Who Am I?

Hi, I’m Tabita Green. I love to read all kinds of books and write about simplicity, the concept of enough, holistic health, and noteworthy events, thoughts, and ideas. I’m currently working on an eBook about getting started with simple living.

I recently left my job as a software executive to pursue a balanced life in a picturesque town in the upper Midwest. I have a small Internet marketing business, Web Gnomes, which enables me to work from home. (Do contact me if you need help getting noticed online!)

I am a wife, a mother and the owner of a very cute Bichon Frisé.

I wish you peace, joy, and serenity.