"It is surely not I who am radical or extreme in my practices. It is the Americans around me."
- Eric Brende from his book Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
I picked up a book a few days back that I remembered from an NPR interview in 2004. You can listen to it by clicking here. You can get his story by clicking on his name above.
There is a real hunger, I believe, among young and old alike for a return to the simple life. I know that my longing to live a simple life comes from my family and church heritage. But there is a gnawing in our souls that all that we have attained in the realm of technology isn't always for the better. My struggle will be how I can best implement some of Brende's ideas for my own life. Right now, it doesn't seem plausible. None the less, it is still a longing that lives in me.
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