After dinner, go out to walk the baby, downstairs met the third floor male neighbor under the bicycle.
Downstairs smoking father-in-law, smiled and asked, go to the field busy?
"Well, go to the field to clean up. He also pushed his bicycle into the corridor, despite the sweat on his forehead.
When he came in, his father-in-law said, " this family is desperate."A few houses, as well as facade rental, such a hot day to open up wasteland. Why do you make so much money?”
I was like, where's the land around here?
He looked everywhere wasteland, Wild, quite far away. Said Father-in-law with a cigarette.
I said, Maybe someone else just likes farming. As someone who likes to play cards, it's all an option. And money is not money, nothing.
This idea is not surprising, most people think that as long as the money can be very easy to live, every day playing cards on the line.
But, just how far are you going to live the life you want to live? Many people simply do not know. Most people are tired of their current state of life and want to escape, but it is not clear: what kind of life they want to live?
A recent book, Carpenter's notes, describes the writer Nina's own real-life record of never knowing what she wanted to be. Don't be fooled by the title of the book, which is a book about how to live more authentically.
Author Nina, very strange. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in English and classical literature, before becoming a carpenter. He was the editor-in-chief of the website of the Boston Phoenix newspaper and contributed to the major publications. Her job is to edit the eye-catching articles in front of the computer, to earn more clicks. A steady job gives her plenty of income and insurance, but it also leaves her feeling disconnected from the“reality " of life.
The book of Carpenter's notes, without a dogmatic description of how we should live in truth, simply describes and records the life we are living in plain but vivid language. It is worth mentioning that among them interspersed with fairy tales, philosophy, and history when reading more feel the author really is to live as an artist in the past.
"Carpenter notes" is not like "Little Forest", choose from the city back to the field, the daily sunrise, and sunset. Not like E.B white "people are different", choose from the city back to the countryside, just to escape the city noise, live their ideal life.
She still lives in the city, but for a job, that is, we usually say the line, but found the most suitable way of life. At first, it was a bold choice and an attempt for her, and it wasn't until five years of down-to-earth work that she realized this was the way she was looking for real life.
It is also a way of life that allows her to appreciate the reality of life at different stages, documenting the struggles, anxieties, anger and justifications of each of her choices.
When reading this book, especially from the beginning of the desk writing facing the computer, to face the need to rest the old kitchen, or terrace, need their own brick and stone hand disassembled and restored to the original state of the stairs, for the author has never engaged in such work, it is a challenge.
And I also seem to be in the author's words, really feel her initial anxiety and after Enron. The first line of anxiety is the new industry puzzled and fumbled, especially with a bunch of tools, you need to be more flexible to use them for their own service.
Downstairs neighbors can not go to the wasteland, and the door of the tea house people, playing cards or bragging all day. But they didn't, they just chose the land, and they chose the life they wanted to live. They have the courage to ignore the gossip of others, choose the most simple work, to comfort their own body and soul.
And, the most real life, the biggest reward for yourself is the Daily peace of mind to do the things you choose. Perhaps, we can't understand the author Nina, leaving the screen, leaving the internet, why to do everything to the hands of the carpenters, we respect, they want to live a life of choice, to continue to practice. She relies on carpenters and reality to have deeper links.
In this continuous practice of life on the road, you are destined to have a lot of Master, they may be destined to guide you, but the final choice, after all, is your own. Mary in the carpenter's notebook is the owner of Nina, the author, and her spiritual mentor. Throughout the book, she has few words but always gives her guidance when the author feels most depressed or unable to continue.
“You're not terrible, you just need hundreds of exercises, " she said."Even if you know that Nina is nothing rookie, never in words against her.
Become the work you do.
This seemingly Zen words, in fact, to understand the most basic truth.
In the book, it is not just a simple exposition of every work done as a carpenter. Some of the tools, the Greek myth or Classics are convincing.For example, on the steps, it is not simple to make a similar look to the steps so that you can go up. Citing the classic, let you understand the basic common sense of the carpenter.
I think the height of the steps should be limited to no more than ten inches and no less than nine inches so that the steps would not be difficult, Vitruvius wrote in his book building ten. The width of the pedals of the steps should not be shorter than one and a half feet, and should not be longer than two feet.
Although the author did not build the pyramid or the temple of the great construction, the daily life of people used to build the steps, the size of the appropriate norms, convenient for people to use, I think this is very simple. You think that you have accomplished your work, but you do not realize that you are accomplished by the work done by yourself.
Your attitude to work determines your attitude toward life.
There is a tree on the Spring Tree Frank and real
In fact, I like to read the top of the book, there are stories, ups and downs can arouse their interest.
But the book of Carpenter's notes reads as if it follows the author as he travels to different spaces every day: either to build a terrace, or to enter a messy kitchen, or to hammer out a bathroom...... these spaces that we can access every day. But it is different from what we are familiar with every day.
It is as if we are peering into the lives of others, with novelty and pretending not to care. In fact, the heart is expected, even a little excited, even a little schadenfreude: who let you put a good office work does not do, to do toilies.
But reading, being touched by the sincerity of the author, she did not deliberately say Carpenter's good or bad, just a real record of their different state of emotions and experiences. It's a record, it's a reflection.To myself, but also to the family.
Carpenter notes gives people a very comfortable feeling. It's like reading the forest of Norway on a tree more than a decade ago. Before reading, is holding some of the books can not be described, but also know the scene of anticipation and apprehension, but after reading, think, to small yellow book gimmick to detonate the reader's eye is simply an insult to the book.
At some point, the feelings of the characters depicted in the tree Spring Tree are completely consistent with the emotions of most people, impartial. Why does the author think so much of the heart, or is he simply writing his own truest heart?
E.B white in people are different about freedom so that, ..... I always intuition, people and their own contract are extremely important, must maintain self, and can tolerate all things, independent self, with the occasional encounter with the planet, random, and like a hound in general persistent, never abandon.”
Author Nina Ben is writing and now wraps up as a carpenter. The only thing in common is that both require patience and practice, and both need to revolve around getting something right, getting it right and thinking it over and over again. Carpenters hone their craft through constant practice, and writing requires constant revision to satisfy themselves.
Five years on, proving that her choice was not wrong. From the beginning even the tape will not use, even a screw will not knock, to later be able to successfully make a bookcase for his father.
Design your ideal house in your mind and live the life you want to live
In society, we inevitably need to self-identify and be recognized by others. This is not contradictory. Author Nina, like ordinary people, is eager to be recognized, but also afraid to be commented. But she had a good way of getting her own way: starting to build a house for herself in her mind.
I had this idea, too. When reading the novel, she was always attracted by her large room, the whole room all through, a bed, a desk is enough. If you are not sure what kind of life you want to live, design your own house first.
First, determine the floors on several floors, layout floor plans, build walls, Design Floor tiles, bookshelves and bedroom windows, kitchen cabinets, workbenches, and food pantry, consider the threshold, lighting and temperature issues. From the skeleton structure at the end of the joists, from the floor to arrange the walls and the location of the window, and the specific steps of how to frame, installation, etc., until the top of the bathroom to do a skylight.
You can even imagine: go from one room to another room, looking for the right path to move. It is divided into rooms, porches, walls, and spaces, or large rooms, according to various functions. Imagine the floor is installed in Brazil walnut or oak flooring?
Only considering these real things may inspire you to work towards the life you want.
Nina, who is still a carpenter, does not give up writing because she abandoned her previous media career. she also runs her own blog while working as a carpenter, and records her experiences as a carpenter. So, only a few years later the "Carpenter notes" listed. She has not forgotten what kind of person she wants to be, and has been working towards the life she wants to live.