Community
Community
As I sit here now writing this, my friend Gus is downstairs cooking. Gus + her family have been staying with us for nine days now; they leave on Wednesday. They are in-between homes, having sold their house + not yet completed on the next one. Whilst I love my personal time alone as much as the next person, I thrive on community. The sharing of planning meals, cooking meals, cleaning up after them, walking the dogs, taking care of the children.
If you lived in true community it of course would be more than this: education of children, growing a garden, possibly also financial aspects too. This is how humans used to live, and I truly believe, when the balance can be found (and if the space was bigger than a ‘one family’ home), is the way we set to thrive. I have a longer written piece building in me, for The Soul Review at the end of the month most likely, about Regression: because ‘Progress’ has set us back as humans in so many ways, which is why so many of us are hearing the whispers of being called ‘backwards’, to the older ways of being.
I believe that there is a good chance that many of us will be pulled towards living in community again in the coming years, however that may look, and I for one would welcome it. We aren't designed a species to ‘do this alone’. It is exhausting, it is often joyless, and it is far from natural. We have gone so far from community today, to the point where even the family ‘unit’ itself lives in fragmented parts. ‘Progress’ has done this. ‘Progress’ has made us lose ourselves. Lose our connection to one another, and in turn ourselves. I am so called to be part of the change to bring us back to one another, and to our truth, and (whilst of course challenging at times), this last week has confirmed that for me even more.
This week’s Podcast: Liberation
This week I am guided towards: Yoga with Adriene