Bhutan

[helen99]

rialian was just reading me an excerpt from a book called Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle by David Wann. The excerpt was about a country called Bhutan. They measure wealth according to something called, "Gross National Happiness."

Maybe it's a result of living independently of words for at least part of the time...

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[helen99.livejournal.com]

I pass up many books for that reason. I'll skim a couple of chapters and realize I already know the information, or I already own an unread book on the same subject. I want a house that (in addition to all the usual rooms) has a Library. (And a sewing room and a Rialian room and a workshop with tools and a root cellar and a basement and a dusty old attic and Real Hallways with Secret Passages and a Secret Garden and...). Uhm, and is sustainable! Right.

[dancinglights.livejournal.com]

My imaginary magically sustainable oversized Victorian house which I share with other relationship-units of chosen family by floor has a multi-story round tower library with ladders and a bench for drinking tea, yes it does.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's the one. Funny how it's more often than not the same house (with wondrous new features each time the story is told). I think a group of 3lvz in space-bending combat boot mode could feasibly McGuyver a Victorian so it really did have these features.