Late response to Richard's comment of May 2021
In reply to What marks "success" for community living? by Richard W
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Since I can't paste text with Ctrl+V, let's see what happens when I choose plain text. It might work!
I'm rather late in responding to your comment, Richard. The diving into rabbit holes took all of my attention, for a while. I'm done now with that intense journey, within and without, gosh! Time to breathe out and sit on my laurels, while remaining optimistic about... well, everything! Your last sentence spoke to me full-on, that's what my measure of success is too. Lately, I've become fond of the term "Panta Rhei" (everything flows), for it's a quality of attitude, taking the daily life as a live-stream in tangible form. Which implies an ease with non-attachment to any moment where stuckness rises due to emotional turmoil. Triggers and shooting from the hip are for sale on the global market in large numbers, nowadays. To feel the flames of fury, witnessing enormous stupidity, and ignorance of moral values, while in a survival mode.
Ahem.... the wheels are coming off the bus, and it's very exciting! I mean the end of wrong pandemic management.
Returning to the subject of communal living, the feeling that it's the best container for one's soul, yes, I believe it's a great way of saying it, and if I may add another quality, it's the best expression of one's soul as well. It can be that of course it depends on how one enters such an endeavour. When everything flows, the procedure of setting up a community, on a piece of land, or in the virtual reality, and no fixed outcome puts blinders on one's mind, all that work in progress can be a wonderful fulfilling undertaking, an adventure as well.
The support in such an undertaking, from loved ones, friends, kindred spirits, is the lighthouse on the shore, where landing is safe. Every explorer needs a lighthouse, isn't it? One day, when travelling is free again, and Britain's border is open without the need of a vaccine passport, etc. I'll make efforts to travel overseas again, and find a place to spend half of each year, on the coast of IOW, or West Sussex. Any advice, or suggestion, about a temporarily living space, for my person only, will be most welcome. And I'm not meaning a communal lifestyle. I can't commit to the communal life, when I'm also spending (due to obligations related to the reception of my state pension) half a year in my Dutch home. Maybe permanent settlement outside my country of birth is for a later chapter in my life 😉
