Living Rootless
Living Rootless is the blog of Mzuri, “an introverted woman of a certain age” who “sells her house, gets rid of her stuff, and goes rootless.”
Sounds good to me. She’s been documenting her rootlessness since 2010. That first post reads:
I’ve sold my house. Move-out day is October 15, and, as of today, I don’t yet have a forwarding address.
I’m going rootless.
The following posts document her divestment from stuff. She buys her first laptop to replace her desktop to increase mobility. She sells or gives away or destroys everything she doesn’t need, conducts research. It’s an entire escape, documented.
Each post is short, but there’s hundreds of them each year so they really pile up:
I am staying at friend Kate’s house for a couple of days. This evening, she asked, “Do you have any regrets about selling your house”? I responded, “Not a one.”
One hour later, as Kate is swiftly turning off the water main inside her house, because her pipes had frozen, and burst, and there is water spewing out over the washer and dryer in her garage, she says, “Yeah, I guess not.”
Mzuri is American and her first solo trip was Ethiopia, which strikes me as extremely ambitious and freewheeling. Since then she’s travelled in Mexico, the US, and Guatamala.
Here’s Mzuri on debt, on minimalism, on slow travel, on voluntary simplicity.
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New Escapologist Issue 18 is shipping now. We also have a launch event in Glasgow on 19th November. Come along if you’re nearby!
Issue 18 Launch Event, 19th November, 6pm, Glasgow
We’re launching Issue 18 of New Escapologist on November 19th, meaning that pre-orders and subscriber copies will be shipped very soon. In fact, we’ve already shipped a few. Maybe you have yours already.
But Red Alert! We’ve had a venue change for the launch event! Pay attention if you’re in/near Glasgow and are planning to come along.
The new venue is Aye-Aye Books, which is now in Broadside at 123 Allison Street, G42 8NE, and looks like this:
Aye-Aye Books are longstanding friends of the magazine, selling the magazine in a prominent location in their shop and everything. They were based in the CCA until very recently, so please don’t make the mistake of going to the CCA or to the previously-announced launch venue, which now looks like this:
Oh dear.
It would have been nice if the owner had told us he’d gone out of business and therefore unlikely to host us as planned, but I suppose he had bigger problems on his hands.
Anyway, Martin from Aye-Aye is a wonderful chap, and I for one am looking forward to helping to warm up his new space. Join us!
Drop in at some point between 6pm-7:30pm for a short reading and some chat, then drinks if we want them at the Victoria bar across the road.
