Maybe I'm just more interested in a broad range of topics than you are
Right. I'm only interested in penises and cookies and anything else resembling a penis or a cookie that I can impulsively put between my lips. Actually, that's not completely true. I also like stuff like Xmas lights, books and babies. I guess I eat the lights with my eyes, the books with my brain and I have been known to say "I'm gonna eat you up!" to a baby before kissing it on the belly.
I do like the concept of intentional communities. I lived in a student co-op in college. It was great fun. I cooked one meal for 30 people once a week. I always had someone around with whom I could have an interesting conversation and it was really easy for me to get laid. I didn't even have to leave my living room. Actually, I had a similar community when I worked for a giant bookstore except the cafe made the food and I was married so I didn't signal to get laid. Also, this BB is an intentional community where I can get good conversation but I can't really cook for you guys and I have to switch over to the Match.com or OkayCupid community if I want to get laid.
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver
Right. I'm only interested in penises and cookies and anything else resembling a penis or a cookie that I can impulsively put between my lips.
LMAO. Mojo, you still open for given those type of lessons to Miss IC? "Ouch!" {As Miss IC hits IC on the side of his head with a pot...or was that a frying pan? Hard to see for the stars circling around my head}
but I can't really cook for you guys
I'm pretty close, maybe you could cook something up and leave it on a park bench somewhere. If I keep up too many of the above comments....park benches may become my new home
I thought you would be interested in that topic if you could get past the word "retirement."
Which is why it puzzled me when you asked me what on earth I thought would interest you about the article. Intentional communities are great for all the reasons you listed, and living in one would be terrific for you.
Then you could be "at home" (as opposed to "homeless") without feeling like you were stuck in inside four walls all by yourself. You could have the fluidity of having people around and hanging out in their homes, and yet you'd have the security for you and your children of having a real home to serve as a home base.
Personally I'm going to start looking for one and aim to relocate in the next five to seven years. Maybe by then my bf will be in a position to buy my house and property (which are right next to his) and I can move to a plush retirement community in town. Sounds like a plan!
I've actually come up with a temporary solution to my problem with "homelessness". I'm stuck in my house at least until mid-February and I'm stuck in this rural town until my DD graduates next year but I've moved my business to the city. So, I now have an office in town where I can hang out with friends which is conveniently located near all sorts of things like yoga classes, experimental theater, free international movies, biking clubs etc. Plus, I share office space with some nice nerdy types and the brew pub where all the middle-aged folk gather is right down the street. Plus, I intend to have a pull-out sofa in my office so that it can function as a sort of pied-de-terre so I can get laid without having to bring strange men near D16. Also, now that I've moved the 300 boxes of books out of my house, I am going to shut down half of it and put all the pretty stuff together and decorate for Xmas so my D16 will get a bit more cow love. Actually, the two of us were laughing the other day about how we get along so well because we're both physical-affection-as-primary-love-language people. We cuddle way more than most teen girl and Mom combos but we're too cool to care.
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver
Yes, but now do you see why I thought you would be interested in an article about an intentional community (once you could get past the word "retirement")? I'd like some closure on this.
And your solution reinforces my comparison between you and my bf: you will have two homes, your house and your office. Right now he has his house, his mom's apt, my house, and his cabin on his property. Talk about not putting all your eggs in one basket!
Yes, but now do you see why I thought you would be interested in an article about an intentional community (once you could get past the word "retirement")? I'd like some closure on this.
I understand your message about intentional community now. I just couldn't get past the adjectives "retirement", "expensive/plush" and "corporate" since I am 42, semi-broke and rather counter-cultural. The kind of intentional community I read about on the bulletin board at the cafe by my new office seemed to be mostly inhabited by middle-aged vegetarian Buddhists and would cost me about $500/month plus chores for room and board. I could work in the garden and drink tea and do yoga with gentle gray/long-haired people wearing organic cotton and come home from a hard day at the office to a nice meal of lentil curry. Then my current beau dressed in leather could drive up on a motorcycle and take me out to a bar where they play the real blues and then bring me home and pin me down hard to my nice soft futon in my bohemian-bunkey room.
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver
Yes. The more that I think about it, the better it seems. All I need is $500 a month to have a secure little vegetarian nest for the bunny and about $250 max to keep my middle-aged sexual monkey looking hot enough to attract aging bad boys. Then I would have plenty of pennies left over for my cow to distribute to my children and plenty for my non-sexual monkey to buy herself some fun without over-taxing my lioness. Excellent plan!
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver
Yes, I like it! I love how you haven't turned against the cow and are there for your kids.
I am also renting space in a village-y scene with cool book shops, stores like " Scentology", an independent film cinema, etc. It'a a hip mini village-city here on LI. I am sharing space with a lesbisn/feminist therapist, a male therapist, and a nutritionist. The feminist is already trying to bully me by wanting me to share phone expenses even though I will not be using their phone. The male therapist is playing peace-maker, while the nutrityionist stays out of things. This should be interesting!
