Wesley Rumph, a friend and filmmaker put together this 2 minute documentary on TentLife, he compiled the voice over from over 30 minutes of audio from our interview/conversation about the facets and origins of TentLife.
Watch video after the jump… (hint: click on Continue Reading…)
Trying to gain an understanding of the variables when doing tentlife is like trying to understand a woman’s mind without using chocolate to help…
During the spring semester of my junior year of college I decided that life had become far too complicated. My schedule was slammed, the storage space in my apartment was over flowing, and I felt like I couldn’t keep up with myself. Something had to change. I needed to simplify.
About that same time I came across Acts 2:45 in my studies which reads, “selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need.”
Yesterday, I had my first visitors out at TentLife… One of my previous roomies (Mike Allen), and two lawyers-to-be Maury Birdwell and Steven Gary…. Like good lawyers they gave me their opinion of what I was doing wrong and what I needed to fix to make TentLife as optimal as possible. Before leaving [...]
I’ve spent the last five days and five nights out at TentLife and I must admit… this is going to be hard.
Who would have thought the simple life would be so complicated? I am trying to figure out ways in which to nullify the convenience of electricity, running water and tabletops that HouseLife affords. [...]
Today, I spent some time out on the property to do some cosmetic preparations for the start of TentLife ‘09 tomorrow… 6 hours – doing manly things (read: dangerous things) the entire time! Wielding and hatchet, loppers, a saw, and an axe – I cut, lopped, and hacked the trails to and around home [...]
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