We The Tiny House People
It’s a journey into the tiny homes of people looking for simplicity, self-sufficiency, minimalism, and well-being in dens, converted garages, mobile homes, tool sheds, river boats, and former pigeon lofts.
Basically, Dirksen made a documentary about people who live in tiny houses. For about five years, she traveled the world filming the segments.
Kirsten Dirksen is the co-founder of faircompanies.com and blogger for The Huffington Post. She has worked on MTV, Oxygen, Travel Channel and Sundance Channel.
From the author: I still live in a relatively spacious 1000 sq ft apartment with my family of 4 (soon to be 5) and I have no plans to downsize, but I can’t get enough of these tiny homes. I’m sure my appeal to the scrutinized lives of those who inhabit it has a certain Thoreauian tinge to it.
So many tiny house folks are able to put their stuff down and find some kind of peace, though, and I’m always impressed because of it. This very Buddhist/Gandhian/Stoic notion of non-attachment as a pathway to happiness is nothing new.
Two thousand years ago, Socrates warned: “The secret of happiness is not in seeking more, but in cultivating the ability to enjoy less.”
