I have a new essay published in The Smoking Poet.
Northeast Oregon yurt
It’s new in the sense of being recently completed and published but also in the sense of process. The editor followed my yurt living adventure on Twitter over the summer and fall and then asked for an essay. The result is, “A Grammar for Yurt Living.”
What a strange and wonderful world we live in.
Note: For yurt enthusiasts who may stumble on this, please keep in mind that my writing is literary, not instructive or promotional. You may find it interesting, but if you’re looking for nitty gritty information on yurts, check out www.yurtinfo.org.
Our yurt (pictured to the right) came from Pacific Yurts and is serving us very well.
Crossposted at www.elizabethenslin.com.
Great post, and congrats on the write-up! My husband and I want to eventually have a yurt (we have a long way to go to get there!) and I love seeing and hearing about people’s adventures with them. thanks for checking out my blog too, by the way
Thanks, Jill.
I had not heard of a ‘yurt’ before so I did some research and then came back to read your piece (which is very good). As a kid, I spent every summer in a log cabin in western NY which I always thought was such an adventure. Less so when there was indoor plumbing and hot water…but I always felt such a connection to nature that I missed the rest of the year. I should not have married a native New Yorker whose idea of living in the country is where we live not in the suburbs. LOL…I guess everyone has their own idea of where they best fit in the world.. You seem to have found yours…Michelle
Thanks for the feedback on my yurt essay. I feel fortunate to have shelter that allows me to spend time in a place I love and wish the same for everyone.
I find it fascinating how diverse human attachments to place are. I crave rugged canyons, mountains, trees. Others want wide-open deserts, prairies. Still others thrive in the city. I’m glad there are people who love all these different landscape and who attend to and tend nature wherever they are.