“Unfortunately, poverty seems to be sweeping our nation. The unemployment rates have recently been at all-time highs, and debt is just getting larger and larger. The man you are about to meet is living in poverty, but not because he lost his job or his home.
It’s because he chose to do so. Meet Dan Price. He’s around 50 years old. Twenty years ago, he had a wife, a job, and two kids. Price read “Pain Holo,” a 1974 book about author Harlan Hubbard’s rejection of modernity and his primitive home on the shore of the Ohio River. Price’s marriage dissolved, and the whole family moved to Oregon.
Price opted to move alone into a tiny cabin in the woods, then a flop house, then a teepee, and finally into an underground hobbit hole on a horse pasture near a river, where he still lives with his one spoon, one fork, and one knife. Price prepares very simple meals.
He adds oats, nuts, and grains to whatever cereals are on sale. And since he doesn’t have a refrigerator where he can store milk, he pours water on cereal.
Price thumbs through an issue of “Moonlight Chronicles,” an illustrated journal of his life’s adventures that he produced for about twenty years. The chronicle serves as an artistic outlet and a modest income stream for Price, allowing him to approach sponsors for goods such as tents and clothing in exchange for mentions in his journal. For Price, who has no….Read Full Story Here..…..
