Comments on: Happiness Is As A Butterfly… http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/happiness-is-as-a-butterfly/ About finding balance in your life, connecting with who you are, and creating a lifestyle where you wake up each morning eagerly anticipating the day ahead. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:29:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bobbie http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/happiness-is-as-a-butterfly/#comment-76784 Bobbie http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/happiness-is-as-a-butterfly/#comment-76784 What a beautiful picture and such a beautiful sentiment to go with it. Hawthorne really had a wonderful way of putting things. You may not be aware of it but your whole blog kind of has that air about it - a very positive and serene feeling. Thank you for all your hard work. What a beautiful picture and such a beautiful sentiment to go with it. Hawthorne really had a wonderful way of putting things. You may not be aware of it but your whole blog kind of has that air about it – a very positive and serene feeling. Thank you for all your hard work.

]]> By: Shirley http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/happiness-is-as-a-butterfly/#comment-3107 Shirley http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/happiness-is-as-a-butterfly/#comment-3107 Thank you, David. Your yurt project and your plans for your home sound really interesting and you have some really good ideas. I hope you'll keep in touch as you move toward your goals. Thank you, David. Your yurt project and your plans for your home sound really interesting and you have some really good ideas. I hope you’ll keep in touch as you move toward your goals.

]]> By: David Zent http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/happiness-is-as-a-butterfly/#comment-3091 David Zent http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/happiness-is-as-a-butterfly/#comment-3091 I've really enjoyed looking through your posts about simplicity. I find them direct, honest and clear, and I bet you exude these qualities personally. I'm currently building a 16' yurt as the start of a yurt compound I intend to put together over the next few years. They are elegant structures, answering the needs of shelter, beauty and economy in a way that many other homes do not, and I'll take it completely off-grid by building solar electric and water-heating panels, as well as a couple wind-turbines. Composting toilets will be used and greywater recycled as far as possible. I've just heard about some small swedish-made woodstoves that burn with nearly 100 percent efficiency and they'll be the eventual heat-source. I plan on using radiant heat under the floorboards as well, heated thru a coil passed thru the stove. Living this way requires a certain frame of mind, and sites like yours help me achieve and maintain it. Thank you! I’ve really enjoyed looking through your posts about simplicity. I find them direct, honest and clear, and I bet you exude these qualities personally.

I’m currently building a 16′ yurt as the start of a yurt compound I intend to put together over the next few years. They are elegant structures, answering the needs of shelter, beauty and economy in a way that many other homes do not, and I’ll take it completely off-grid by building solar electric and water-heating panels, as well as a couple wind-turbines.

Composting toilets will be used and greywater recycled as far as possible. I’ve just heard about some small swedish-made woodstoves that burn with nearly 100 percent efficiency and they’ll be the eventual heat-source. I plan on using radiant heat under the floorboards as well, heated thru a coil passed thru the stove.

Living this way requires a certain frame of mind, and sites like yours help me achieve and maintain it. Thank you!

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