The Sacramento River
The Art of Manliness posted an awesome article on the beauty of minimalism. I highly recommend reading the post. It’s inspiring and thought provoking….
Spring Break of my freshman year of college I went on a 4-day backpacking trip in the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico. My partner in adventure, Lucas, was a former Wyoming backpacking guide turned potter-philosopher, the perfect companion for days wandering the woods processing what comes about with the sudden cleaving from the static of modern living. A year prior we had traipsed around Wrangell-St. Elias National Park in Alaska on a 14-day trip that cemented our friendship…and wanderlust.
…It had been 7 years since my Gila trip and life had moved forward. There was now a wife, baby, and career. I found myself roaming the halls of our newly-built 3-bed, 2-bath suburban home fuming that we didn’t have enough storage space. During college I could carry everything I owned in the back of my Dodge pickup. Now 1,600 square feet was not adequate to house our growing collection of stuff. Something was wrong with this picture. How had I accumulated so many random things in such a short period? Continue reading here.
Thank you Justin, for sending me the article! 
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Great read! Thanks for the heads up. I especially like the backpack analogy.
~L
I thought you would like the backpack analogy.