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Doing with less is easier when I remember that emotional needs often get expressed as material wants, but can never, finally, be satisfied that way. If I feel disconnected from others, a cellular phone won't cure that. If I feel like I'm getting a little dowdy, hours on a tanning bed can't eradicate self-doubt.
当我想到情感需求往往会以物质需求的形式表现出来却无法最终通过物质来满足的时候，生活得简朴些就比较容易。如果我觉得自己与别人隔绝了，一部手机并不能解决问题。如果我觉得自己有点缺乏魅力，躺在日光浴床上几个小时也不能消除自我怀疑。
Why live in a snowy region when I don't use central heat? I moved here for love several years ago, and while that love was brief, my affection for this place has grown and grown. I like the roots I've put down; living like Goldilocks, moving from chair to chair, seems like not much of a life to me.
我不用中央供暖，为什么还要住在下雪多的地区呢？几年前我因为喜欢才搬到了这里，虽然那时候的喜欢十分简单，现在我对这个地方的热爱却日益增加。我喜欢我定居的地方，像从一个椅子换到另一个椅子上的金凤花姑娘那样生活，对我来说似乎算不上是一种好的生活。
Being willfully backward about technology suits my taste—I like living this way. Wood heat feels good, better than the other kinds. (Central heating would make my home feel like it was just anywhere.) Fetching firewood gets me outdoors and breathing (sometimes gasping) fresh air in the wintertime when it's easy to go stale. It's hard, achy work to split and stack the 8 or 12 cords of stove wood I bum annually. I've been known to seek help to get it done. But the more of it I do myself, the more I can brag to my city friends.
故意落后于科技符合我的志趣——我喜欢这样生活。木柴取暖感觉很舒服，比其他方式要好（中央供暖会让我的家变得跟其他地方一样)。出去取柴火可以让我在空气容易变得污浊的冬天呼吸（有时候是深深地呼吸）新鲜的空气。劈开并放好我每年讨要来的8或12捆柴火是一项艰难而又累人的工作。我曾经为了完成这项工作寻求过帮助。但是我自己做得越多，我就越可以向我城市里的朋友炫耀。
