Something to Say 1
Part One: Longgrassing for Beginners
At Home 3
Evening 4
Morning 6
There's a Line I Walk 8
Give a Longgrasser Blue Sky 9
I Don't Talk about Longgrassing 10
How about my Kids? 11
Stuff 12
Assets 14
Library 16
The Longgrasser as Fugitive 18
Stashing 20
Other Longgrassers 22
Two Worlds 26
The Full-Bodied Richness of Being 28
The Longgrasser Advantage 30
Balance 32
Security 34
Darwin's Hierarchy of Social Adaptation 36
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Longgrasser 37
Material Possession and the Stuff/Hassle Relationship 38
Fear 42
The Leaf Blower 46
The Hordes of Yellow Hi-Viz 49
Longgrassery 50
Drumming 52
Mental Illness 54
How I Got Depressed 56
Lunch 58
Cathy 62
Where Exactly is the Longgrasser? 64
Homeless Day 65
If There Was War 70
Sick 72
The CEO Sleepout 74
Part Two: Longgrassing for Advanced Souls
The Exterior Life of the Longgrasser 77
The Beach 78
Inpex 80
Shutter Island 82
The Life Cycle of the Human Being 83
The Facade 84
The Swell 86
Extreme Longgrassing 88
Counterculture 90
Raft 91
One 91
Longgrassing as Self-Actualisation 92
Pathology 93
Swimming 94
Swim 96
The Grasshopper and the Ant 97
Old-Fashioned Longgrassing 98
Longgrassing with a Laptop 101
Ode to a Gas Hub 110
Two Images That Might Help You Understand What's Going On 111
Hassle = Ï(Stuff)³ 112
Deep Longgrassing 114
If You Sit Still Long Enough 116
The Reality of Flight 117
How to be Homeless and Happy 118
Creation 120
Every Surfer Knows 124
The Dog Box 126
The Steamship 128
Part Three: The Longgrass School of Economics
The Longgrass Solution 131
Happiness 132
Primary Wealth 133
The Having Mode 134
The Richness of Time 136
The Tyranny of Aspiration 138
The Maelstrom of Contemporary Society 140
Downsizing Demand 142
I Upgraded my Contract 143
In Defence of Long Grass 143
The War on Feet 144
The Loss of Trust 148
The Harvard MBA 150
Crazy Clarks 153
Part Four: Longgrassing with Children
Parable of the Longgrasser 155
The Saddest Thing 156
How I Got Happy 160
Seven-tenths Water 168
Very Sick 168
Inpex is Bad 171
The Longgrasser's Dream 172
The Sandpit 174
Where Would We Be Without Inpex? 176
Dinner for Three 178
Ghost 182
Seed 186
Part Five: Longgrassing as Revolution
Every Day's the Same 189
The Rogue Wave 190
Full Moon Drumming 192
Longgrassing as Failure 194
Longgrassing as Liberation 194
Longgrassing as Revolution 196
Longgrassing as Anything 196
Longgrassing as Running Away from Home 198
The Longgrasser Retires 200
How about Rain? 204
The Trickle-down Effect 206
Journey 207
Landing the Ball 208
Good Night 212