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978-0-89587-297-5
0-89587-297-8
$21.95 hardcover
7 x 9
179 pages
For more information, visit the website for Wanda and Frank's PBS show Simple
Living with Wanda Urbanska
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Do
you ever have pangs of conscience at the mountain of garbage that lies
in the wake of a fast-food meal?
Are you discouraged when there are only a few minutes left for your
family after a day of drudgery at the office?
Have you experienced a sense of emptiness after the thrill of buying
that new SUV or lawn tractor wore off?
Are you concerned that your kids are being recruited to popular culture
at an even younger age than you were?
Relax.
That’s just your better nature calling.
Many
people have the urge to be thoughtful stewards of their time, money, and
resources, yet they feel powerless against the tide of advertising and
social pressure that’s drowning them. Or they believe that consumerism
is so far advanced that their efforts to change the culture would be
inconsequential.
Wanda
Urbanska and Frank Levering feel strongly otherwise. In 1986, they left
their high-powered careers in Los Angeles to move to a family orchard in
the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where they found that a more
meaningful, less frenetic life—a simpler life—was there for the
taking. Indeed, they discovered that a movement is abroad in the land,
and that the overarching principle is this: Every positive change, no
matter how modest, has an impact.
Nothing’s
Too Small to Make a Difference is the companion volume to their PBS
series, Simple Living with Wanda
Urbanska. In chapters covering time, money, work, the environment,
child rearing, community life, health and food, and spiritual growth,
the authors offer proven, practical advice on how to simplify and
improve life. Not idle dreamers but the owners of a small business
themselves, not iconoclasts but proud Americans who believe it’s
possible to work within the system, Urbanska and Levering point the way
toward a future in which community, family, and health can reclaim their
rightful positions alongside money as the pillars of life.
about
the authors
National lecturers, workshop leaders, and authors or co-authors of seven
books, Levering and Urbanska have appeared on Oprah,
CBS This Morning, the Today
show, and NPR’s All Things
Considered. They’ve been featured in USA
Today, Redbook, Family Circle, and Glamour.
They now own and operate Levering Orchard, the largest cherry orchard in
the South, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Also by Wanda Urbanska and Frank Levering:
Simple
Living: One Couple’s Search for a Better Life.
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