Simplicity made easy

Trish Carn reflects on Jennifer Kavanagh’s new book

by Trish Carn 4th March 2011

Simplicity. What does it mean? This has been a challenge to me for many years. Some people seem to feel that it is a movement backwards towards an older, supposedly simpler, way of living – growing our own food, avoiding electrical equipment such as computers and so on. For me, this wasn’t a direction I could take. Yes, I can and do enjoy some gardening but my livelihood is based on computers. I couldn’t go back to a treadle-powered machine or lose the internet.