what in particular did you think would interest me
Maybe I'm just more interested in a broad range of topics than you are. I've always been interested in the idea of an intentional community of some kind,i.e., people who live in proximity and share similar values, but aren't "forced" into any social interaction. Maybe because I'm an only child and didn't have any family around me ever, I'm interested in the way a community can shape itself into a family.
I've read just about everything ever written on Findhorn. When I formes my group of lady friends back in 1993, we jokingly said that as we got older, we (the single ones, that is) could build a couple of houses on my property and live together, but with lots of space. There was talk of making sure we always had a couple of cabana boys on the staff.
Friends are my family... when I got married, friends threw the bachelorette party. When we got married, the only blood relative of either of us who was present was my husband's second cousin. (He was an only child, too.) when my husband died, friends handled the shiva.
I'm blessed with a lot of friends, but that didn't happen by itself. I've cultivated friendships and I maintain them with emails and phone calls and lunches. It would be nice if we lived nearer each other.
Demographics- shmemographics! Ideally a community of friends wouldn't be limited by demographics. Such a community would be made up of singles and marrieds of all ages, gays, people with little kids, people with grown children-- grandparents, the whole kit and kaboodle. THAT'S the best kind of community.
So the subject of intentional community doesn't interest you at all?
