Why would one create such boxes of Trash to live in I was asked? Who would ever live there?
Tiny Texas Houses was first started, scoffed at by a wife left behind, others thought leapt off the Chasm at the Fringe. Instead I crossed beyond where most can see what would be Mii.
How does a beat-up dilapidated house or barn become a place to rest, to regenerate a healthy body every night without toxins, electromagnetic radiation drenching your brain, or eating your savings from working all your life through siphoning taxes, energy costs to heat and cool, ultimately taking your home and wealth away from you if you have a big grand house.
Does it take being "big" to make it home or just the love of one for their house that could roam, portable in case the place they need to change, the home going with them through all of their stages? That is the idea behind tiny houses not left on wheels like mobile homes or RV's if you please, these are homes for the hearts of women and men who want to live simply, to grow food once again as our ancestors did in a time long ago, a time that we read of by men like Thoreau.
On Walden Pond with time to think, Emerson as others wrote of the existential alternatives to the big cities and the hustle and bustle that distracted us from what was divine. Nature in its greenery, its natural beauty, appreciated in the moment of its manifesting, Spring, growing through summer, and fading in fall to cycle as if dead and sprout up again. Truly the value of the moment, the hour of our lives are getting lost again.
When the time comes for many to downsize and simplify, to savor the moments instead of the things others use to measure their life's worth with, worrying and striving to keep up with the Jones's down the street, to have a bigger house than they can sweep, and to jet set with the richest people
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