Simple Days: A Journal on What Really Matters

We all long for the simple life, where we surround ourselves with just enough things to not weigh us down; and time to enjoy the greater things in life. Does it mean stripping her life to the bare minimum of items around her? Does it mean moving from the life in the city to out in the countryside where she grows her own foods? In a day and age where many people take the idea of a “simple life” to the extreme (they move away from places they love, grow their own food, and get rid of countless treasures) Simple Days is Schiwy's attempt at looking inside herself and trying to understand what a simple life really means. Schiwy kept this journal over the course of a year in which she determined what she wanted to gain in “simplifying her own life”. At first she wonders if simplifying life means getting rid of just stuff or if there's a deeper meaning to it all. The journal, then follows her path as she sorts out just what sort of a simple life she wants. It details her comfort zones of what she needs to retain in her life and also reminisces about her family life and how that shaped her view of living. In the end, she finds that she already lives a simple life; it's mostly just clearing out clutter and preparing herself for a long move from the East Coast to the West that she needs to get a handle on. This book was another long ago purchase that helps to clear it off a stack.