Once Upon a Tiny Farm
I love Chinese food. That also means I’ve opened more fortune cookies than I care to remember. Typically, I’ll read them quickly before discarding them with a laugh. But there was one fortune in particular that has always stuck with me. Sometime during my freshman year of high school, I cracked open a fortune cookie and read the following words:
“Don’t leave your heart empty.”
Tiny house living, in our experience thus far, has been a slow and steady process of creating a life we truly love. Creating a life you love will look different for everyone, but for us it involves having the time to do the things we enjoy doing most: traveling, growing our own food, and the simple joys of spending time together, enjoying more of the present moment.
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The most commonly asked question we often get is how we manage to live in such a tiny space. That is a loaded question, the answer being that it requires a daily balancing act and is most definitely not easy. However, this question overlooks the more important question, which is why we choose to live in a tiny house. There is a lot to unpack in the reasons for our why, but I think it could be best described by Mel Gibson:
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Last week, I was mindlessly going through the motions during my regularly scheduled programming (work, parenthood, etc.) when everything was suddenly interrupted with the news that my grandmother had been hospitalized. At first, it didn’t sound like her diagnosis was that big of a deal. Maybe I was just hoping for that. But just in the span of a few days, she was no longer with us. She passed away at the age of 84. [Read more…] about Don’t Wait For Tomorrow
We have lived two very different lives in our tiny house. Our first year, we learned how to make the best use of the space with just my wife and I. They were simpler times! This past year, we were forced to re-learn how to make tiny house living work with the addition of our little girl! It has definitely been challenging at times, but certainly not a deal-breaker for us.
But one thing is for sure…
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