That’s amazing Dan. After living very simply on a boat for 4 years we also became very aware of our everyday needs and where and how we would create them or find them.
Since living back on the land and in a house it seems to take constant vigilance and conscious choices to keep life as simple as possible and not be drawn to the ever increasing consumerism all around me.
Thanks Maureen! I hear you about the shift from boat to land. Even though our Finnish life is still very simple by comparison to most Western lives, it was the most simple when we lived in the yurt! Our dryland version of a boat! ;-)
That’s amazing Dan. After living very simply on a boat for 4 years we also became very aware of our everyday needs and where and how we would create them or find them.
Since living back on the land and in a house it seems to take constant vigilance and conscious choices to keep life as simple as possible and not be drawn to the ever increasing consumerism all around me.
Thanks Maureen! I hear you about the shift from boat to land. Even though our Finnish life is still very simple by comparison to most Western lives, it was the most simple when we lived in the yurt! Our dryland version of a boat! ;-)
What a lovely essay of The Good Life.
Greetings from a similar Life with probably as many buckets (never counted!) and a few buckets-on-steroids with goldfish in them against mosquitos.
Thanks Barbara! We need to add some of those goldfish buckets! Our pond has newts but no fish.