No bunny photograph today. I’m computer-free at a festival this week [Burning Man], Loy ran off for a meditation retreat in the blackberry bushes across the street, and hopefully, if all goes well, this will be automatically posted in a couple days.
But I wanted to tell you that there is excitement!
If you don’t read Rowdy Kittens already, I’d suggest it for anyone interested in simplicity and minimalism! Friend and inspiration, Tammy Strobel, has been one of my favorite bloggers ever since I stumbled across Rowdy Kittens long ago.
Tammy released her new book, Smalltopia, a couple days ago, and I just finished reading through it. It isn’t about minimalism itself, but I want to mention it because:
- It’s about living life and running a business from a minimalist perspective.
- Rowdy Kittens is an awesome blog you should know about anyways.
- And well…I wrote a chapter for it!
If you’re curious, Smalltopia‘s about building your own small business via an online presence in order to live the life you want. [That is, unless the life you want explicitly involves a different career path.] But if you are interested, it’s an inspirational guide that I think you might like!
This isn’t a hand holding “1, 2, 3, poof a business” book. Smalltopia focuses more on kicking your butt in gear to think about why you’d want to be self-sufficient in the first place, why you haven’t taken steps to do it yet, and the broader ideas behind a tribe, personal motivation, and keeping your priorities in line. It also includes over a dozen case studies and essays by people who support themselves with an online presence [including Leo Babauta, Everett Bogue, Chris Guillebeau, and others. How did I get included in that again?!]
There are a lot of articles and websites out there with information like this for free…and Tammy even points out that some of the material is on her blog already…but for the right people, it’s convenient, inspirational, and a great source of information!
Anyways, check out Rowdy Kittens here. I could give you an affiliate link for the book, but I appreciate Tammy’s work, and would rather that sales go fully to her. So if you’re interested, find Smalltopia on her blog!
As for me, I’ll be spending the week at the Burning Man festival. I will be frying in the desert sun with the yuppie-hippies in my black, full-length evening dress I’m bringing, having spiritual awakenings more frequently than a faux-bo-bo [bohemian-bourgeois] dare beg their parents for money, and planning my next set of Simple Rabbit articles!
Until then <3
