I’ve chosen to live for eight months in a house truck in a pasture, on a hill, overlooking Golden Bay in the North West corner at the top of the South Island in New Zealand. For the last four months I’ve been following George Clark’s Amazing Spaces, on tv. George, a restoration architect, travels around Britain investigating how ingenious people are converting old caravans, buses, shipping containers, ambulances or starting from scratch to build stunningly beautiful and compact homes from wattle and daub, recycled timber or anything they can lay their hands on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zvnLpgj5jw
It was through watching this series I discovered the global emergence of a whole tiny home movement –here are some in New Zealand: www.livingbiginatinyhouse.com and www.theflyingtortoise.blogspot.com It makes a complete sense at a time of economic uncertainty and impending environmental catastrophe that people in their droves are opting out of the enslavement of hefty mortgages in favour of living simply with a minimal environmental footprint.
I want to know what it’s like to live in a tiny home and I’m setting out with the thesis that I can stand having minimal interior space as long as there’s plenty of space outside – which there is here.
For me the tiny home is a symbol of a Tribe in Transition to a more harmonious and creative way of living and ties in with my other passionate project for this year – bringing people together for deep discovery conversations exploring the transition in consciousness that is happening and must happen if we are to move into a new chapter of how human life is evolving on Planet Earth. For news about the teleseminars and programmes I’m offering sign up in the opt-in box on this page.
Over the months I live here, in the house truck I’ll be sharing my experiences here in this blog and my posts will include the day to day stuff of what it’s like to live here in a tiny home in this little piece of Paradise, reports about the growing of Tribe in Transition and reflections on consciousness, creativity and culture. I hope you will join in!
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