12 Days of Christmas: Mark Powley – Less Stuff, More Christmas (NS12)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2014
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
To close out our 12 Days of Christmas we've enlisted the services of 'Consumer Detox' author and founder of the Breathe Network ("Less Stuff, More Life"), Mark Powley.
Apparently the issue isn't so much the way we go about Christmas, but the way we go about the rest of the year. Interesting!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Nomad Spirituality |
| 0:16.0 | On the 12th day of Christmas, Nomad gave to me. |
| 0:21.6 | A Christmas reflection by Mark Powley. |
| 0:24.6 | Mark Paulie. |
| 0:25.6 | Mark Paulie. |
| 0:29.6 | Mark... |
| 0:31.6 | Paulie... |
| 0:33.6 | On Nomads, 12 days of Christmas. |
| 0:36.6 | Is this the last one? |
| 0:38.8 | It's the 12th which would suggest it's the last. |
| 0:42.4 | But it's not. |
| 0:44.2 | There may be another because we asked more than 12 |
| 0:46.5 | in case people couldn't do it at the last minute |
| 0:49.3 | which indeed was the case for a number of people |
| 0:51.2 | but there's still one person who might still do it |
| 0:53.1 | which could leave us with 13 Christmas reflections. We'll have to see what happens tomorrow. |
| 0:57.9 | We shall see. It's all right, on it. So we made it, Wardo. Number 12. It's exciting. Yeah, yeah. We could |
| 1:08.0 | have 13. I think of all the number divisions... |
| 1:12.1 | This is your favourite. |
| 1:13.5 | It is, and I'll tell you why. |
| 1:14.7 | Not just because 12 has sort of biblical symbolism, you know, 12 disciples, 12 apostles, all that kind of thing, |
| 1:19.8 | but it's such a kind of... |
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