• Skip to main content
  • Skip to after header navigation
  • Skip to site footer
A Quiet Simple Life with Sallie Borrink

A Quiet Simple Life with Sallie Borrink

Simple Living, Homeschooling, Faith, Homemaking, & Books

  • Start Here
  • Blog
  • Categories
    • Easy-To-Use Category Page
    • Books
      • Book Lists
      • A Month of Cozy Children’s Books
      • Picture Books for Children
      • Chapter Books for Children
    • Christian Devotionals
      • Morning Hope
      • Eventide Blessing
      • Streams in the Desert
    • Christian Faith
      • Prayer
      • Marriage
    • Current Events
      • Sallie’s Stack of Stuff
      • Grand Solar Minimum
    • Faithful Living In Difficult Times
    • Favorite Comfort Food Recipes
    • Free Printables
      • Free Homemaking Printables
      • Free Learning Printables & Worksheets
    • Gifted & 2e
      • Raising Gifted Children in the Christian Faith
      • Gifted/2e Parenting
      • Gifted/2e Homeschooling
    • Gracious Christian Parenting
    • Health
    • Holidays & Traditions
    • Home Business
    • Homemaking
    • Homeschooling
      • Relaxed Homeschooling
      • Homeschooling a Creative Child
      • Our Homeschool Curriculum Choices
      • Homeschool Mom Life
      • Homeschool Planning
      • Homeschool Relationships
      • Homeschool Curriculum Reviews
      • Right Brained Learners
      • Homeschooling High School
      • Homeschooling Middle School
      • Homeschooling Preschoolers
      • Homeschool Rooms
    • Introverts
    • Learning With Themes
    • Money
    • Our Simple Family Life
      • Only Child
      • Pregnancy & Baby
    • The Prudent & Prepared Homemaker
    • Restoring America
      • The Fourth Turning & The First Turning
    • Simple Living
    • Simple Living This Week
  • Tags
  • The Shop
    • A Full Year Shopping Pass
    • Explore The Shop By Category
    • Digital Products Terms of Use
    • Your Account Details
      • View Your Orders
      • Go To Your Downloads
    • Lost Password Help
  • Subscribe
  • Newsfeed
  • Social Media
  • Forum
  • Donate
  • My Recommendations

Sallie’s Stack of Stuff – March 1, 2022

You are here: Home / Current Events / Sallie's Stack of Stuff / Sallie’s Stack of Stuff – March 1, 2022

Post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure statement.

March 1, 2022 by Sallie Borrink
11 Comments

This morning I am going to try something new. I am struggling with how to find the balance between using my gifts to help people and not giving up significant time away from my family and home responsibilities. 

When I make a video about current events or even just try to do an in-depth post, it takes me a few hours of my morning. I have to look at the news, decide what to discuss, find links or screenshots, record the video, listen to the video, choose graphics, upload the video to Gab, write the post, etc. 




It isn’t the time only. It also takes a lot out of me. I record things in one take because there is no editing option due to time constraints. So I am careful what I say for legal reasons, cancel culture reasons, and being precise reasons. If I make a video about something important, it honestly wipes me out the rest of the day.

So David and I found a simple voice recorder app in Linux that allows me to simply record my voice and post it. I don’t have to mess with uploading a video to Gab. We chose a fun graphic for the post and I plan to simply use the same graphic each time I do this to eliminate that step. I don’t have a staff, people. I have me and a husband who works for clients who has limited time to help me. So I have to keep this simple if I’m going to do anything. 

We’ll see how it goes.

VERY IMPORTANT: If you like this, please leave a comment. It can be as simple as this:




  • Helpful – BRICS
  • More – Ukraine human trafficking

Don’t just write something like this because this tells me nothing:

  • Helpful – Russia
  • More – Ukraine

This helps me know what it connecting with the people listening. If I get no feedback, I just won’t keep going. I don’t do these things for my sake. I do them for other people. Whether it is posts in the Culture & Current Events section of my blog, videos, or now trying this – I do it to help other people. I don’t need this. I could be writing about literally dozens of other topics that are a lot less stressful. I do this out of a genuine desire to help others deal with what is going on. But there’s no point in investing my time in these if they aren’t helping anyone.

So that’s the deal. Feedback and I make more. No feedback and I will consider myself absolved of my responsibility to do this since there aren’t enough people who feel a need for them. There won’t be any hard feelings if there isn’t a need for them. I simply want to be a good steward of the time I have each day. ♥

Here’s the first recording.

Click Here To Donate & Support

    
Category: Sallie's Stack of Stuff

Recommended For You

Sallie’s Stack of Stuff – March 18, 2022

Sallie’s Stack of Stuff – March 2, 2022

Sallie’s Stack of Stuff – June 1, 2022

Sallie’s Stack of Stuff – March 26, 2022

 

Spreading Traditional Goodness, Beauty, Truth, and Hope

Please click here to donate. Thank you! ♥

Previous Post: « The Return Of Shame – The First Turning
Next Post: Sallie’s Stack of Stuff – March 2, 2022 »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Kathryn

    March 1, 2022 at 10:54 am

    Very informative regarding Ukraine and Russia conflict. You are right there is so much that we do not know and a lot of conflicting information. I look forward to listening to more of your commentary.

    Reply
    • Sallie Borrink

      March 1, 2022 at 11:22 am

      Thank you for the comment, Kathryn. ♥

      Reply
  2. Bonny Velasquez

    March 1, 2022 at 11:43 am

    Sallie,
    Your work is so valuable and extremely helpful to either inform or confirm other information.
    I did not know about Brics. Great info.
    Your admonition to see world events on a level we are not privy to helps with the frustration (which always throws me back to prayer….a good thing).
    I found your blog on Ukraine invaluable for a rational perspective. Confirmation.
    I appreciate your recording strategy to manage your time. Looking to mimic similar management in my life.
    Thank you for all the areas you touch.

    Reply
  3. Pam

    March 1, 2022 at 1:01 pm

    LOVE this format, Sallie! And of course I love all the info.

    Reply
  4. Artist

    March 1, 2022 at 1:25 pm

    Thank you very much for your work and I found this format to be very helpful, plus you have such a mellifluous and soothing voice which is in great contrast to all the shrill hysteria out there.
    I have pretty much disengaged from ” Western Media” and social media in general is not much better.
    The levels of propaganda have literally become painful so this is “Helpful”, and yes, “More”

    Reply
  5. Amy Carey

    March 1, 2022 at 2:29 pm

    I enjoyed listening! I was aware of much of what you spoke, but had not heard of BRICS. That was interesting. I appreciate your analysis and intuition relative to the times in which we live. ❤️

    Reply
  6. Melinda Dunn

    March 1, 2022 at 7:40 pm

    Thank You .Sallie. I count on hearing your thoughts, comments, observances, etc. Reading and listening to what you have to say helps me maintain some sort of balance. I did not know about BRICS and am trying to figure out about the biolabs. There is a great deal that I do not understand , but I keep reading, Thank you again,

    Reply
  7. Kris

    March 2, 2022 at 12:52 pm

    Thanks Sallie,
    I had never heard of BRICS before, that is eye opening. I was also wondering if The Great Reset i.e. WEF had something to do with all these countries collaborating? Some of their actions seem to go in sync with what Klaus Schwab promotes…..As far as Ukraine and Russia, there is a much bigger story behind this. I have thought that since it started and am wondering how this will all play out and where America will be in the end on the game board.

    As far as Truth Social, I am like 300 and some thousand on the waiting list. It will be a long while for me to get one there.

    This audio format is great. I can listen while I do other things. Thanks!

    Reply
  8. Lauren Hill

    March 3, 2022 at 2:34 pm

    I love this, Sallie. The <15 minute audio format is so appealing. I can listen while folding clothes, running to drop off kids, etc.
    While I understood about the country alliances from reading a few other sites, I didn't realize it was dubbed as BRICS.
    I appreciate the analogy about the game board of which we are not privy. I couldn't agree more!
    I'm looking forward to hearing your daily thoughts!
    -Lauren

    Reply
  9. Emily Darling

    March 3, 2022 at 6:33 pm

    Sallie, thank you so much for doing this! I know it takes a lot out of you, so I hope you are spending time refreshing yourself mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually out in God’s creation. It is so vital for us to do that in addition to our times in study, prayer, devotion, and fellowship. That aside, I am very grateful to you and the effort you put into doing these informational talks. I don’t feel as though it is important to see a video – it’s the content that is important. BRICS is totally new to me! Press on!

    Reply
  10. Cheryl

    March 14, 2022 at 10:13 am

    Hi Sallie,

    I know I’m coming late to the party here, but I wanted to comment. This is all causing my brain’s engine to chug forward. I have “smelled something rotten” with this, and you are confirming my suspicion. I will be listening through and leaving shorter comments as I go. I have read the Ukraine post here on your blog, and I try to check updated comments on it. I haven’t been able to to listen to these new updates because I usually use periods time when I’m not too busy at work to read your blog. My work space is in an open, high traffic area, so there’s no way I can listen to sound recordings there. I will try to listen in the car, or on my days off, like today.
    All that to say, I’ve only listened to one, but it’s very interesting and thought provoking. Thanks for doing this.

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

 

Thank you for your comment. I read and appreciate each one even if I am unable to respond.

Sidebar

Welcome! I’m Sallie, Christian wife, mother, homebody, relaxed homeschooler, autodidact, truth seeker, and digital soldier. Traditional and conservative both theologically and politically. I value freedom to live quiet and simple lives. I don't apologize for being white. Please start here. ♥

Chit Chat

~ Lots of new content in the Forums

~ If you turn off your adblocker, I truly appreciate it. ♥

~ Thank you second quarter donors! ♥ ED, AC, BO (x3), AC (x3), DH (Initials only for privacy)

~ Did you put on the Armor of God this morning? Ephesians 6:10-20

Popular Posts Today

  • Forum (Read-Only)
  • What Was In The Envelopes At President Bush’s Funeral?
  • Home Page
  • Recommended Video – Devolution Power Hour With Guest Jovan Hutton Pulitzer
  • The Ultimate List of AIP Comfort Food Recipes
  • Classical Conversations Negatives And Why We Didn’t Join
  • Understanding “The Devolution Series” By Patel Patriot
  • Free Printable Journal Pages
  • He Drew Me Aside – “I Needed the Quiet” by Alice Hansche Mortenson
  • Why I Homeschool In The Afternoon and Not The Morning
  • Copywork Printables in Print & Cursive
  • Let’s Learn About Squirrels
  • Recommended Video: “Take Your Children Out Of School” – Psychiatrist Dr.…
  • Newsfeed
  • The Cozy Life In America (and Why I Prefer It To the Danish Hygge)
  • Morning Hope – Proverbs 22:1-12
  • Simple Living This Week No. 87

Categories

In Your Cart

Popular Today – My Shop

  • My Winter Favorites – Printable Booklet
  • Fun Fact Cards Free Sampler
  • Mexico Copywork – Print & Cursive
  • Thanksgiving Fun Facts Cards
  • Christmas Word Search – A Savior Is Born
  • True Or False? Activity – Winter
  • Butterfly Fun Facts Cards
  • Ohio Clip Art & Digital Papers
  • Mexico Fun Fact Cards

Recent Comments

  • Marc Edward Granger on What Was In The Envelopes At President Bush’s Funeral?
  • Marc Edward Granger on What Was In The Envelopes At President Bush’s Funeral?
  • James Roe on What Was In The Envelopes At President Bush’s Funeral?
  • Sallie Borrink on Classical Conversations Negatives And Why We Didn’t Join
  • Melissa on Classical Conversations Negatives And Why We Didn’t Join
  • Peggy on Simple Living This Week No. 87
  • Cheryl on Do You Take Your Own Bible To Church?
  • Sallie Borrink on Sallie’s Stack of Stuff – June 22, 2022 (They Are Doing This On Purpose)
  • Sallie Borrink on Sallie’s Stack of Stuff – May 18, 2022 (The Great Replacement Theory)
  • Brenda Nuland on Sallie’s Stack of Stuff – June 22, 2022 (They Are Doing This On Purpose)

New Post Alerts

Get new posts by email

Powered by follow.it

 

Access Everything

Contact Me • Privacy Policy • Disclaimers & Affiliates

Copyright © 2022 · A Quiet Simple Life with Sallie Borrink · All Rights Reserved · Powered by Mai Theme

Scroll Up