Tania Morris

I’ve only read Paul’s original post so far (and am promising myself not to get distracted reading all the comments) and it has got the gears in my brain spinning…

I’m in WA - as in Western Australia (not Washington 😉) and I have a group of long term friends who have been mulling over the idea of Intentional Community for   Fed years.

Apart from being a collective of ADHD/ ASD peeps, only two of us actually have the capacity to put in to buy land at present, however the greater issue is the legal restrictions that apply on land usage here (owning land doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want & there are usually maddening restrictions on multiple permanent dwellings - unless of course you are a ‘developer’ with intentions to split the title etc)

As someone who is loud & proud ‘weird’, and honestly has not found anyone who thinks quite like I do, I totally get why Paul is hesitant about intentional communities…

But as a once very physically capable, but now increasingly less capable (the joys of hypermobility, mild fibromyalgia & middle aged womanhood) the mental needs of setting something up on my own hurts my head, let alone the physical.

That doesn’t mean I’m giving up though!!
I need to get more familiar with this forum & take advantage of the shared knowledge here, and also get more proactive in my local area with other permie groups (challenging for an introvert, but I think it is a necessity not a luxury for my long term dreams)

But thank you…
Now I need to go google ‘re-husk’ 😆

Dishes…

I used to enjoy cooking, but after raising kids with major food sensitivities as a single mum(AU spelling 😉) that became less fun as well…

And as I had two ‘dishwashers’, but both of which were permanently broken (ie. my sons), dishes were always the end of day tedious chore!

paul wheaton wrote:That very weirdness is, i think, screwing up my greater mission…

paul wheaton wrote: And I think that is the core of this whole thread.  I would rather have my values and be alone, than be wise and in a relationship.   Therefore, I double down on the pursuit of my wack-a-doo-stuff and embrace a sort of flavor of being solo.

Many people might find your passion & different priorities/ ideology uncomfortable, but that doesn’t make you, or it, a problem or defecit.

Humanity needs people who can & will pursue ‘wack-a-doo-stuff’.

marie-helene kutek wrote:

It’s lonely.

Excruciatingly, bewilderingly lonely.

Even when you’re surrounded by people.
Even when you know more than ever.
Even when your heart is opening and your soul is expanding…

There’s a silence that settles.
There’s a distance that grows between who you were and who you’re becoming.
And often, there’s no one around who truly understands what it’s costing you to awaken…

Thank you