I keep coming back to this book again and again. I’m thinking of purchasing it. Some chapters are more or less applicable to my life than others, and I can reread or skip those as needed. When I was first getting into the voluntary simplicity thing I checked this out and it was overwhelming; in the subsequent check-outs, I’ve gleaned a little more information and am starting to see it as a reference.

I’m really falling in love with the idea of living deliberately....

...Need to finish this, but the library wants it back, so it’ll have to wait.

read in 2000

So far this book is quite interesting, though it is somewhat amusing to find a book of this size on a topic like simple living. One of the main points the author makes is that simple living is about living deliberately; you can accomplish it any way you like and do any thing you like, so long as you are aware of what it means you’ll have to give up. If you make that choice consciously, you’re living simply.