Karen - thank you for sharing this story. To be honest, unless there was a loaded gun at my head, I doubt I could survive such an existence. I can live with much less, but i need human interaction. That said, perhaps it's the reason that we have lost touch with our planet. Busyness reduces our living to just getting by. It should be so much more than that. We can do with less. Of course we can.

I think you would enjoy reading about Mark Boyle, author of The Moneyless economy, and Drinking Molatov Cocktails with Ghandi. He is an inspirational human.

Then there is Jo Nemeth, an Australian woman who is also inspirational. Might write about them today.