"The tighter you squeeze, the less you have." Thomas Merton

While Nature is recognized as being a source of abundance, what is often overlooked in that assessment is her extraordinary thriftiness. Everything is eventually used for something else. Thriftiness isn't really about holding on. It is about the creative use of what we have. What a wonderful way to think about our own lives. It isn't the holding on that is so essential. It's what we create with what we have.