Shelter is an attempt to document a personal journey from chronic illness, confinement, and the threat of death in the polluted environment of a decrepit American East Coast to the sanctuary of a simple and practical non-toxic home. The personal diary of one disabled person's search for a practical means to something most Americans take for granted but which a small overlooked minority here struggle against astronomical odds and a compulsively Malthusianist society for; simple safe shelter.

Shelter is a saga set against a landscape of invention, technology, architecture, history, medicine, bureaucracy, prejudice, alienation, desperation, pragmatism, and irrational hope.

Shelter is a plea for help. A man attempting to free himself from a pit by tossing out plans for ladders that, by their novelty, might be compelling enough to passers-by that someone might actually build one.

Shelter is, hopefully, a successful example and inspiration to the thousands of others who suffer similar situations. A reproducible experiment which may give many of them the keys to obtain their own safe shelter.