What-Is Scenarios
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helwenA follow-up on yesterday's post about What-If scenarios --- the What-Is ones.
So, it's been a couple of decades, and now instead of being renters,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
embermwe and I are both owners. In my case, that's about to change, if only for a few years, but certainly we aren't where we were back then.
Neither of us waited for an economic collapse to change our lives. Because while our what-if premise was dramatic and had obvious negative consequences, I think we both enjoyed the process of figuring out how we were going to get where we were going, and what life would be like. That new life looked pretty good!
She now lives in NH in a big house with her sweetie, sharing it with a few other folks, and from what I saw when I was there a few years ago, I'd say she's formed a pretty nice intentional community. Plus she's part of a larger, more spread-out family, Clan O'Choda.
We both have more medical/health/healing knowledge and skills than we used to, although in different areas. We both picked up additional skills over the years, like spinning, and I've finally gotten back to learning to weave and am having a ball with that.
I don't know about her, but I feel that I'm still a ways off from where I want to be. Still, I'm getting there.
I suppose that's one of the reasons we stayed in Holyoke for so long... the mindset pre-disposed to building community was already there, both in L and I and in our neighborhood. It's been a good match. There are a lot of good things here -- good neighbors, a city government that cares, the farmers' market, community gardening, city-sponsored activities, parks, housing being built for low-income folks, and more. Like any place, it has its problems, but they actually try to solve them.
So, it's been a couple of decades, and now instead of being renters,
embermwe and I are both owners. In my case, that's about to change, if only for a few years, but certainly we aren't where we were back then.Neither of us waited for an economic collapse to change our lives. Because while our what-if premise was dramatic and had obvious negative consequences, I think we both enjoyed the process of figuring out how we were going to get where we were going, and what life would be like. That new life looked pretty good!
She now lives in NH in a big house with her sweetie, sharing it with a few other folks, and from what I saw when I was there a few years ago, I'd say she's formed a pretty nice intentional community. Plus she's part of a larger, more spread-out family, Clan O'Choda.
We both have more medical/health/healing knowledge and skills than we used to, although in different areas. We both picked up additional skills over the years, like spinning, and I've finally gotten back to learning to weave and am having a ball with that.
I don't know about her, but I feel that I'm still a ways off from where I want to be. Still, I'm getting there.
I suppose that's one of the reasons we stayed in Holyoke for so long... the mindset pre-disposed to building community was already there, both in L and I and in our neighborhood. It's been a good match. There are a lot of good things here -- good neighbors, a city government that cares, the farmers' market, community gardening, city-sponsored activities, parks, housing being built for low-income folks, and more. Like any place, it has its problems, but they actually try to solve them.
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Date: 2007-08-30 10:01 pm (UTC)from
be here as long and as happily as if I did own
it, without the attendant hassles.
:))))
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Date: 2007-08-30 11:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-31 01:09 pm (UTC)Indeed! I AM all about the intentional
community thing! Having support systems
and people you like who have diverse
talents readily to hand makes life so
much easier.
Everyone can tend to fall back on "default
programming" and the holes are still covered
and life is still comfortable and wonderful.
This phenomena also happened one year during
landgrab at Pennsic, and is where
"Bytchearse"'s handle comes from. It was
REALLY comical.