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An idea occurred to me one day: I want to live a simple life.

Don't misunderstand my thought process here; I realize life, with all its complexity, is rarely 'simple.' Yet there is something to this idea of "a simple life."

What is simple living? How does one simplify their desires and let contentment in? And how do the small, simple, everyday (mostly embarrassing)  moments shape who we are becoming. These are questions I'm interested in answering. More importantly, I am interested in the answer those answers would point to.

Hans Hofmann, whom I'm unfamiliar with and have just googled, said it best;

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." ~Hans Hofmann, Introduction to the Bootstrap, 1993

If I could really strip what's important to me down to the bare essentials, what would remain?

In all honesty, I claim no extraordinary depth of knowledge. If I did, this would be a book rather than a blog. That's not a dis to bloggers. I believe blogs are the new great equalizer: a forum for Proust scholars and pot heads alike! Although let's face it, most Proust scholars are probably pot heads anyway...

Living, I'm convinced, makes us all commentators on the subject.

Plus, when I come to points at which it's obvious I don't know what I'm talking about; I can always post a video of someone getting hit in the crotch in continuous replay, to distract both you and I, and then move on to something else.

Or, I could always throw in a quote.

"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. "
~Henry David Thoreau

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