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
