A Different Kind of Luxury-Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance

Description: A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance 11 portraits from rural Japan offer new pathways to meaningful work, great creativity, and sustainable living. ANDY COUTURIER is the son of a biographer and a civil rights activist. During his four years of living in Japan, he wrote for the Japan Times; worked with local environmentalists fighting large dam projects, rainforest destruction, and huge electric power plants; taught English; and studied the interconnections between Japanese aesthetics and innovative new forms of writing. In California, he and his partner built their own house using only hand tools, developing a piece of raw land into a functioning rural homestead with solar and hydro-electric power, running hot and cold water, and a Japanese-style bath. Andy has studied Buddhist meditation and many other Asian philosophical systems, and has traveled extensively in Africa, Southeast Asia, and India. He has been a researcher for Greenpeace and has taught writing for more than a decade. He is the author of Writing Open the Mind: Tapping the Subconscious to Free the Writing and the Writer and has written for Adbusters, the MIT Press, Kyoto Journal, Creative Nonfiction, The North American Review, The Oakland Tribune, and Ikebana International.

Price: 25 USD

Location: Centreville, Maryland

End Time: 2024-02-01T16:23:56.000Z

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