yeah...somehow I identify with all of that. I'm fortunate, have shelter, food, probably enough saved to make it to the end of life with a roof over my head, but it doesn't make me feel safe when all around me are folks who have far less and no idea how to make the loose ends meet. And, our new leaders are busy trashing the social safety net, such as it is. Most of them have escaped gravity themselves, so what they do or don't do for the country is of little account to them personally.
What's my dream? To find some place with enough space and just barely enough people that we have to actually depend on one another to be the glue that holds things together. Does that place exist? Maybe. Maybe it comes along with heat, humidity, too many bugs and Baptist churches on every corner. This converted Episcopalian may have to go to rural Wales to find what he's imagining, or possibly Nova Scotia...
yeah...somehow I identify with all of that. I'm fortunate, have shelter, food, probably enough saved to make it to the end of life with a roof over my head, but it doesn't make me feel safe when all around me are folks who have far less and no idea how to make the loose ends meet. And, our new leaders are busy trashing the social safety net, such as it is. Most of them have escaped gravity themselves, so what they do or don't do for the country is of little account to them personally.
What's my dream? To find some place with enough space and just barely enough people that we have to actually depend on one another to be the glue that holds things together. Does that place exist? Maybe. Maybe it comes along with heat, humidity, too many bugs and Baptist churches on every corner. This converted Episcopalian may have to go to rural Wales to find what he's imagining, or possibly Nova Scotia...
This website opened my eyes to a vast range of intentional communities in the U.S., some of which might come close to what you're looking for.
https://www.ic.org/