ISLAND LIFE SHORTS
Lessons to live by
Advertiser Staff
Linda Breen Pierce, author of "Simplicity Lessons," has observed the following characteristics in people who live simply: material possessions limited to what is needed and cherished; meaningful work, whether paid or volunteer; quality relationships with friends and family; joyful leisure activities; comfortable relationship with money; sustainable consumption practices; healthy living practices; practices that foster personal growth, an inner life or spirituality;Êconnection to nature; and living in harmony with values and integrity.
SAVE THE PLANET
Fuel for thought
Learn how to turn recycled vegetable oil into bio-diesel fuel to run a car — yep, you read that right — at a workshop presented by the Sierra Club-Hawai'i Chapter. The free class, part of the organization's monthly sustainable-living series, will be 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the YWCA on Richards Street.
Jon Webster Abbott, director of the Fuel Farm nonprofit organization, will explain how to make your own bio-diesel fuel, which is cleaner to burn, for specially modified diesel engines. For details: bettygear en@verizon.net or 524-8427.
Final word
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. | civil-rights leader who delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech Aug. 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Today is Martin Luther King Day:
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' "
