The Art of Zen Living

When I set out on this path, I remember thinking “What could be easier than living simply?”

Heh.  It didn’t take long to figure out that simple and easy are worlds apart.  The simple way to live is to bake my own bread.  It’s wholesome, nutritious, and has lots of good things store bought bread lacks, and lacks all of the bad things store bought bread has.

Easy is running to the store and picking up a loaf of bread for a dollar.  That bread, even if it’s marketed as “healthy” is likely to have a variety of preservatives, processed and enriched flour, high fructose corn syrup and any number of other things that you probably don’t want in your food.

Ironically, this is what I was thinking about tonight as I baked my bread.

So if living simply isn’t easy, why would anyone do it?  Let alone do it on purpose?

I can’t answer that question for everyone that lives this way, but I can answer that question - for me - in a single word.

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