Musings of an Imperfect Man In Search of a Handmade Life
Learning a thing or two from the past…Part 1, 21st century Westerners are not the first to minimalize. With all the talk and zeitgeist around the Minimalist Movements I thought I’d revive this post from a while ago. This is a lengthy ramble. So long in fact, that I have broken it into several posts […]
Read More Thoughts About Minimalism and Survival“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” Wise words from William Morris. This is the mantra that drives the entire vardo project. I try to keep this in mind for every thing I add and every part I build. Otherwise, isn’t it just junk?
Read More The Golden Rule of a Minimalist HomesteadOriginally posted on Becoming a Minimalist:
Becoming a minimalist involves convincing ourselves of just one thing. There is enough. Marketing would have us believe that we will never be enough or have enough. A recent trip to the thrift store revealed that there is a book out there to cure every problem we could possibly…
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In our morning manager’s meeting the other day we had to go around the room and tell of our greatest accomplishments. I pondered and then stammered briefly about being able to let go of what people think of me. At first the question raised some insecurity in me. Had…
A mid-40s couple restores a tiny canned-ham trailer, leaves their mundane careers, and takes off on a journey across the continent. Sounds pretty good to me. When it comes to making enough money to get by, the two have a unique system. “In our ideal setting,” Hutchison explains, “is four months of working somewhere, [or] […]
Read More Hamlet, A Tale of the Road Less TraveledA ‘tender, post-apocalyptic love story’… I want to revisit this minimalist performance art piece with you for the weekend. Extremely clever, “acrobatic virtuosity,” street performance. from the Acrojou website: “A tender post-apocalyptic love story…” – Kate Kavanagh, review, The Circus Diaries A gently comic dystopia, set in a different time where everything has a new […]
Read More The Wheel House“A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human carcass is a man. Can he who has discovered only some of the values of whalebone and whale oil be said to have discovered the true use of the whale? Can he who slays the elephant for his ivory […]
Read More Life, Destruction, and Incidental UseHere are a few thoughts composed on a beautiful and idle day, home from my thankless, and often tedious job, while plotting my escape. Just a bit of a ramble. “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden. Possessions don’t make […]
Read More Jobs, Work, and Taking Control of Possessions“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.” Walden, Henry David Thoreau 1854.
Read More Possessions“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful,” William Morris.
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