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SUMMARY:Dee Williams, The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir (NOTE: Au
 thor is NOT bringing tiny house)
DESCRIPTION:Join Village Books and Transition Whatcom as we welcome au
 thor Dee Williams for a slideshow and author presentation at 4pm in th
 e Readings Gallery. Unfortunately, Dee will not be able to bring her t
 iny house on a trailer for people to tour, as originally planned. She 
 will, however, bring life-sized blueprints for her little travel house
 , as well as samples of salvage and green materials used in her tiny h
 ouses. This event is co-sponsored by ReSources, Sustainable Connection
 s and Transition Whatcom.\n \n\nDee Williams's life changed in an ins
 tant, with a near-death experience in the aisle of her local grocery s
 tore. Diagnosed with a heart condition at age forty-one, she was all t
 oo suddenly reminded that life is short, time is precious, and she wan
 ted to be spending hers with the people and things she truly loved. Th
 at included the beautiful sprawling house in the Pacific Northwest she
  had painstakingly restored--but, increasingly, it did not include the
  mortgage payments, constant repairs, and general time-suck of home ow
 nership. A new sense of clarity began to take hold: Just what was all 
 this \"stuff \"for? Multiple extra rooms, a kitchen stocked with rarel
 y used appliances, were things that couldn't compare with the financia
 l freedom and the ultimate luxury, \"time,\" that would come with down
 sizing.  Deciding to build an eighty-four-square-foot house on her own
 , from the ground up, was just the beginning of building a new life. W
 illiams can now list everything she owns on one sheet of paper, her mo
 nthly housekeeping bills amount to about eight dollars, and it takes h
 er approximately ten minutes to clean the entire house. It's left her 
 with more time to spend with family and friends, and given her freedom
  to head out for adventure at a moment's notice, or watch the clouds a
 nd sunset while drinking a beer on her (yes, tiny) front porch. The le
 ssons Williams learned from her \"aha\" moment post-trauma apply to al
 l of us, every day, regardless of whether or not we decide to discard 
 all our worldly belongings. Part how-to, part personal memoir, The Big
  Tiny is an utterly seductive meditation on the benefits of slowing do
 wn, scaling back, and appreciating the truly important things in life.
   Dee Williams is a teacher, designer, woodworker, and sustainability 
 advocate. She is the owner of two businesses, Portland Alternative Dwe
 llings and Boxcar Woodcraft, where she designs and builds tiny houses.
  She conducts green-building workshops across the country with Tumblew
 eed Tiny House Company and is also the author of Go House Go, a manual
  for building small homes. She lives in Olympia, Washington.\n\nFor mo
 re information visit https://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/events/the-big
 -tiny-tiny-house-tour-and-author-presentation
DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20140511T160000
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CATEGORIES:literature, live
LOCATION:Village Books
WEBSITE:http://www.villagebooks.com/event/dee-williams-5/11/14
URL:http://www.villagebooks.com/event/dee-williams-5/11/14
CONTACT:360.671.2626
ORGANIZER:Village Books
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