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. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:56:48 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Shirley http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/happiness-is-as-a-butterfly/comment-page-1/#comment-3107 Shirley Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:16:44 +0000 http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/happiness-is-as-a-butterfly/#comment-3107 Thank you, David... your comment is much appreciated. 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 comment is much appreciated. 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-page-1/#comment-3091 David Zent Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:01:12 +0000 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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