Jimmy's Got Plenty Of Nothing. He's A Lucky Man...

I met up with Jimmy Randell a few days ago at Reids Farm near Taupo.
Jimmy's a lucky man. Having plenty of nothing.
You know how the song goes. I've got plenty of nothing and nothing's plenty for me...
All Jimmy possesses is a horse called Angel, a tiny tent he calls home and now, a little book called How To Live Well On A Small Income that he keeps in his back pocket.
Everything he needs and nothing he doesn't.
Jimmy delights in owning so little, he's aware the less he has the freer he is and here's a man who revels in his freedom.
Apart from looking after his horse, having nothing means he doesn't have to maintain it, clean it, fix it, lend it, insure it, spend his precious time going to work to earn the money to buy it.
Jimmy's a lucky man.
He's got plenty of nothing...

Simple And Delightful Tiny Homes On The Back Of Small Pick-Up Trucks...

One of the simplest, easiest and least expensive to get started in tiny house living on wheels is to just attach some sort of living accommodation to the back of a truck.
A bit like hitching your wagon to a star.
Most of the trucks these days are go almost anywhere vehicles with 4WD options.
Often they're designed so the tiny house can simply be removed at a destination and you can use the truck for another purpose.
Downsizing is the way to go and this concept makes it even easier...

We Can Never Have Enough Of Nature Said Henry David Thoreau...

We need the tonic of wildness.
At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because it is unfathomable.
We can never have enough of Nature wrote Henry David Thoreau.
You'll see the folk over at Beaver Brook
think that too...

Where Civilization Went Wrong...

Most days I go out and collect water and firewood but if I'd had to rely on my fishing prowess of late, I'd probably be very hungry.
Without attending to my most  fundamental needs I wouldn't feel as though I was truly living.
It's what our long ago ancestors did.
It's still there alive and well in my DNA and I still have the pragmatic and philosophical reasons to do the same.
For me, a day without doing something about getting back to basics wouldn't be worth living.
Another who feels similar is Sixbears In The Woods, a blogger, who with his lovely wife lives and writes about their alternative lifestyle and his philosophy on living.
He recently posted an astute, short and simple piece titled Where Civilization Went Wrong.
You can see it here...