Building a dream

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My best friend bet me I wouldn't do it.  Which is fair, because I've been talking about it all of my adult life.  For years I've been dreaming, scheming, sketching up different ways to do it.  The fact that I'm in my mid-thirties and haven't taken any concrete action toward doing it has been weighing on my mind lately.

At what point in your life do you stop waiting for a sign?



I'm ready to start building a house now.  Not necessarily the be-all end-all house that I sketched over and over as a teenage daydreamer, architect wannabe.  No, I will start small.



Am I crazy?  Maybe... but I'm not the only one.  More and more people are dreaming about building and living small.  Is it the rotten economy?  Americans' growing disgust with McMansions and our own wastefulness?  A desire to live more lightly on the land?  All of the above?

Last year, the New Yorker ran stories about small living.

A guy named Jay Schafer started a company around it.

Many of his cohorts are blogging about it.

There are scads of books out there about it.

So there's plenty of material out there for inspiration and direction.

As for the actual building part?  I will have help.  It saddens me that my father, great builder that he was, died before we could build this together.  But I have friends who have become family, and we will build it together.

Abraham Lincoln was once asked how long it took him to write the Gettysburg Address. He replied, "All my life."

Time to put pen to paper.

And you, gentle reader, you're part of this too.  Ask me questions.  Send me ideas.  Egg me on.
I thrive on that.