28th May 2010
Tammy at RowdyKittens Interviews Dee Williams
I was excited to see an interview between Tammy and Dee Williams in my Google Reader today. Most of you probably know Dee Williams but in case you haven’t heard of her here’s a must watch video interview that I’m sure you will enjoy.
Now that you’ve watched that, here’s the first part of Tammy’s latest interview at RowdyKittens.
Tammy: Selling your big house and moving into a tiny home was big decision. What inspired you to downsize your life?
Dee: There were a bunch of things that inspired me to down-size in 2004. My friend, Mark, had just died of cancer; my job as a hazardous waste inspector was increasingly reminding me that my (our) consumer choices have terrible consequences; and I had just returned from a trip to Guatemala, where I was brought face to face with my affluence and real-world poverty. There were lots of big things that were ultimately encouraging me to go small.
I just found this Wendell Berry poem that says it all:
Like a tide it comes in,
Wave after wave of foliage and fruit
The nurtured and the wild,
Out of the light to this shore.
In its extravagance we shape
The strenuous outline of enough.
Tammy: You live a beautiful, yet tiny, 84 square-foot home that’s been featured in Yes!Magazine, TIME Magazine, on Good Morning America, NBC Evening News, National Public Radio, and other media. Can you tell us about your popular little house?
Dee: Media is a weird thing. I think people are curious, intrigued, sometimes horrified, and sometimes simply entertained by the fact that a grown-up lady can live in a tiny space. I’ve been told people are inspired by my choice to live small, and have also been told that I’m what’s wrong with America – that I shouldn’t be allowed to visit the library or use any other public resource, and that I should be ashamed of myself for sponging off other’s hard work. Ouch. My mom’s response to the media is “it seems 99% of the people who have written really like your choices and the other 1%, well, they can’t spell.”
I was excited to see an interview between Tammy and Dee Williams in my Google Reader today. Most of you probably know Dee Williams but in case you haven’t heard of her here’s a must watch video interview that I’m sure you will enjoy.
Now that you’ve watched that, here’s the first part of Tammy’s latest interview at RowdyKittens.
Tammy: Selling your big house and moving into a tiny home was big decision. What inspired you to downsize your life?
Dee: There were a bunch of things that inspired me to down-size in 2004. My friend, Mark, had just died of cancer; my job as a hazardous waste inspector was increasingly reminding me that my (our) consumer choices have terrible consequences; and I had just returned from a trip to Guatemala, where I was brought face to face with my affluence and real-world poverty. There were lots of big things that were ultimately encouraging me to go small.
I just found this Wendell Berry poem that says it all:
Like a tide it comes in,
Wave after wave of foliage and fruit
The nurtured and the wild,
Out of the light to this shore.
In its extravagance we shape
The strenuous outline of enough.Tammy: You live a beautiful, yet tiny, 84 square-foot home that’s been featured in Yes!Magazine, TIME Magazine, on Good Morning America, NBC Evening News, National Public Radio, and other media. Can you tell us about your popular little house?
Dee: Media is a weird thing. I think people are curious, intrigued, sometimes horrified, and sometimes simply entertained by the fact that a grown-up lady can live in a tiny space. I’ve been told people are inspired by my choice to live small, and have also been told that I’m what’s wrong with America – that I shouldn’t be allowed to visit the library or use any other public resource, and that I should be ashamed of myself for sponging off other’s hard work. Ouch. My mom’s response to the media is “it seems 99% of the people who have written really like your choices and the other 1%, well, they can’t spell.”
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