Walden

or Life in the Woods

by Madison Cypher

As you can see above, Madison has chosen to spend a significant amount of time inside a small house out in the wild for a bit of solitude, contemplation, and closeness to nature. Madison has chosen to live here for three reasons:

1. To simplify life and reduce expenditures.

2. To transcend normality and experience the divine through nature.

3. To pop out of it at random intervals and scare people.

You can see by the simplicity of this house that Madison is choosing to live only on the barest of essentials out here in the wilderness. She's living only on what can be found nearby in nature: blueberries, bananas, cheez-its, and a juice bottle that Mommy refills from time to time.

You won't find the mindless clutter of busy workers out here, cell phones ringing and computers buzzing. No, this is truly a voyage of self discovery, not to mention a handy manual for self-reliance.

She's done a very Thoreau job of keeping things tidy in her small house, and was dedicated to staying out in the wild as long as possible. But Mommy was calling, and I'm afraid it was time to come in for dinner, a bath and a movie. Oh well - I guess we'll continue the social experiment some other time!

"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." - Henry David Thoreau