Poem “Famous” by Naomi Shihab Nye. from “Words under the Words – Selected Poems” 1995, Published by Far Corner Books
Film by Anthony Fratilillo.
The link to view it, if you want to share it (and why wouldn’t you, it’s tremendous)
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Tiny House funds world travel!
How do you fund dreams such as travelling the world? Inspired with wanderlust, Jenna Spesard built a Tiny House with her partner, they spent a year towing it throughout America together. It’s now in a fixed location but still helps her travel internationally for 3 months of the year, as it saves her so much money. She is pursuing her goal of visiting 5 new countries each year.
“I don’t work for my house – it works for me” she says.
“Not too long ago, I was working a job I hated, just to pay the rent. I felt stuck and miserable. Then, one day, I decided to change my life. Today I live simply, in a Tiny House, so that I can travel the world for part of the year!”
Jenna Blogs
Jenna blogs at “Tiny House, Giant Journey”. http://tinyhousegiantjourney.com/ There, she talks about her travels (which you can follow on Instagram) and also other people who have chosen the tiny house option as a way to free up finances. There are a range of other people who have chosen to downsize, including a single guy or even a family of 5!
Simplicity
Everywhere you look in the video and the website, there are great storage solutions and simplicity. Inspiring to look at, even if you don’t plan on following the lifestyle completely. And, of course, it’s horizon-widening to see people who have made uusual life choices. Jenna is an excellent communicator.
Fulfilling her Life Goal
One of Jenna’s life goals was to travel the world. Maybe you read yesterday’s blog post of questions to help you find what is important to you in life:
For a moment, it’s exciting to see where you want to aim…. until you wonder “Where will I find the money to help me reach/train for that?” Perhaps Jenna’s way of releasing funds is helpful. It’s certainly working for her.
And what about the world travel? She has already visited 30 countries – including Iceland, Gautemala, Thailand, Taiwan… and is fulfilling her life’s ambition: to visit all the countries of the world. Where do you want to go in life?
Thailand
Guatemala
Taiwan
Doing the Knowledge
I am doing the Knowledge – of world poetry. (Today, it’s poet Moniza Alvi)
“Doing the Knowledge” is a phrase used normally to describe how taxi drivers learn the map of London by going through it, so they know routes to take their passengers there. I am exploring the little-known-to-me or unexplored writings of poets
from outside the British Isle.
Guide Book
My guide and basic map is a book with 4 DVDs “In person: world poets” filmed and edited by Pamela Robertson-Pearce and Neil Astley of Bloodaxe Books. Fifty-nine poets are featured, and they have also been videoed reading their poems and giving some small introduction.
I happened upon the book when I recently visited a large chain bookshop (but, nevertheless, a genuine real-life shelves/stairs/cafe bookshop). And there I confronted my own mortality: 4 floors of books…. clearly there was no way that I
could read them all in a lifetime, even if I began immediately and did nothing else for the rest of my life. (As if to underline the mortality idea, the sign in the shop was classical temple design and therefore unfortunately looked like the entrance to a mausoleum). As with all unconquerable projects, you just 
make a sigh and make a start. So I dived into the poetry section.
