The feeling I came away with from this narrative is that it is the most self-centered thing I have read in a while. There is almost nothing about the community, its activities, its interaction, or its structure or even the other people in it. It is all about how she feels about community. I have a hard time thinking of this as a utopia. It is an interesting view of how one person approaches intentional communities.
Nicola T. Thank you for referring me to your earlier writing. Please take the following as an effort at constructive criticism. I only made it half way through the article. It seemed like an esoteric collection of thoughts on both biological cultures and human cultures, I was half way through it, and it had no references to any actual persons or cultures that you actually are interacting with. You really need to get to your point quicker. I couldn't figure out what the point of the article was and just gave up.
That is a remarkable story, and I appreciate the guest post.
I think that, when it comes to understanding and appreciating the universe, our place in it, and the mysteries of life. Some people are temperamentally drawn to:
"To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world . . ."
Or
"To see a world in a grain of sand / And a heaven in a wild flower, / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, / and eternity in an hour."
I am much more of a "world in a grain of sand" kind of person -- inclined to be attentive to the details of life, but not seeking extreme, immersive experience. So I am not personally drawn to the life being described in the post, but it's fascinating to read about, and I applaud the idea of small, intentional, experimental communities trying new things.
The feeling I came away with from this narrative is that it is the most self-centered thing I have read in a while. There is almost nothing about the community, its activities, its interaction, or its structure or even the other people in it. It is all about how she feels about community. I have a hard time thinking of this as a utopia. It is an interesting view of how one person approaches intentional communities.
Thanks for reading. You may prefer this more objective exploration of community dynamics that I published some time ago on my personal substack: https://surrendernow.substack.com/p/succession-community-culture.
Nicola T. Thank you for referring me to your earlier writing. Please take the following as an effort at constructive criticism. I only made it half way through the article. It seemed like an esoteric collection of thoughts on both biological cultures and human cultures, I was half way through it, and it had no references to any actual persons or cultures that you actually are interacting with. You really need to get to your point quicker. I couldn't figure out what the point of the article was and just gave up.
That is a remarkable story, and I appreciate the guest post.
I think that, when it comes to understanding and appreciating the universe, our place in it, and the mysteries of life. Some people are temperamentally drawn to:
"To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world . . ."
Or
"To see a world in a grain of sand / And a heaven in a wild flower, / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, / and eternity in an hour."
I am much more of a "world in a grain of sand" kind of person -- inclined to be attentive to the details of life, but not seeking extreme, immersive experience. So I am not personally drawn to the life being described in the post, but it's fascinating to read about, and I applaud the idea of small, intentional, experimental communities trying new things.