Inspiration

Another word on what prompted me to try this car-free thing: inspiration from seemingly unrelated quarters, literally.

I live in a relatively small space (450sf), which is a ballroom compared to my former 135sf hut, and I'm still in love with the economy of space. So in ogling the tiny homes at Tumbleweed (like the one pictured), I recognized a principle applied to living spaces that I could adapt to other areas of my life--in fact, these same principles underlie my passion for editing and use of language.

Somewhere on that tiny-house site, the builder writes, "Revelation is a subtractive process," which is exactly true of editing. And some synapse connected instantly: in looking around for how to save $$ so that I can buy land or a house, I suddenly saw how removing something (the car) would add what I need ($$, duh!; not to mention some intangibles that I'm curious about).

As a bonus, this experiment promises to invigorate ideas about my future housing needs (where, what, how)--exciting and fun stuff all around.