henry was right!

ok, if you have been bitten (and truly bitten beyond the potential triteness of the saying to the point of serious life change) by the "less is more" bug, this website is for you:  life edited (see video at http://www.lifeedited.com/category/architecture).  the tiny house movement, the less-than-200-square foot apartments with fold-out beds and kitchens, the links & plans?  they're all here.  but lest we think it's new, henry david thoreau (you can spot his house toward the end of the video) nailed it (no pun intended) when he built his own house and published "walden" in 1854.  he writes, "the cost of a thing is the amount of what i will call life which is required to exchange for it"..."shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?"..."before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must be stripped, and our lives must be stripped...(and this) taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors"..."what of architectural beauty i now see, i know has gradually grown from within outward...preceded by a like beauty of life."  he, in his thirties, could not find any sages to help him move from the first half of life to the second.  thankfully he followed his spiritual instincts for lasting change--as it always must come, from the inside-out--and became such a sage for us to follow.  pass the hammer, please, i have some downsizing to do.