Not heard of Tiny House Cities. I know Polly also had a goal to be self sufficient communities, she did a video on it, but I do not recall all of it. This seems like a wonderful idea, and one way of going back to 'the old days of community' in a modern day non poverty way, where families and friends are number one priority. I love the idea.
Sounds amazing! My daughter has always said that they never teach you about real life at school. Like how to have meaningful relationships, make a home, how to treat people with dignity and respect, how to raise children in positive environments, how to grow your own food, balance your own finances, connect with neighbourhood common goals. Basically be a great community benefiting not just yourself but others around you. When I heard Pollys video, it sounded similar to that. Also my daughters husband, who is ex-military, has such a heart for the youth, especially the ones who seem to be aimless in life. He chats to them on the streets if he sees them up to no good and they really open up to him, he genuinely wants to do something to direct them into a good future. One day I am sure they both will do something worthwhile to change some peoples life for the good. They only got married last year so who knows what the future holds, but if passion is the foundation, I hope they can build on that for a little bit of a better place at least wherever they end up living. Your vision is WAY BIGGER, bless you in your endeavours SirReginald!
Thanks for triggering such an upbeat, optimistic dialogue this morning. More and more lately, I'm seeing little outbursts of pent-up, altruistic hope like this and I really believe that it's a sign of something really good about to unveil itself and spread across the planet. Positive thoughts, good intentions, meaningful discussions and forward motion. That has got to work, no?
Your concept sounds good to me. I/we've been off grid in a GroovyYurt for 5 years now. We use 2% of the resources that we did in our prior lifestyle and it feels more luxurious now than it did then. Of course it requires a shift in priorities and an awareness of what really matters. We are lacking community though. With our values changed, we don't feel any deep connection to the community now. We crave relationships with like-minded people but they only seem to exist online. Our desire to participate in the economy is greatly throttled into a few possible avenues that feel worthwhile but it's tough marketing sustainability to a world that has or can get anything it wants in an instant. How do you sell a fruit tree seedling to someone that can tap their phone and have a beautiful piece of fruit parachuted in from the other side of the world?
Lovely! I used to speak with someone on voat.co who lived off the grid in a very leafy mountain, we were in contact via email and his photos were amazing. He said it was hard at first with his family, but they were a few years into it and loving it.
If, for some reason, we ever had to return to a house (box) and urban life with wires, etc, I think I'd die inside. Everything we need for our souls lies beyond our manicured reality.
Not heard of Tiny House Cities. I know Polly also had a goal to be self sufficient communities, she did a video on it, but I do not recall all of it. This seems like a wonderful idea, and one way of going back to 'the old days of community' in a modern day non poverty way, where families and friends are number one priority. I love the idea.
Sounds amazing! My daughter has always said that they never teach you about real life at school. Like how to have meaningful relationships, make a home, how to treat people with dignity and respect, how to raise children in positive environments, how to grow your own food, balance your own finances, connect with neighbourhood common goals. Basically be a great community benefiting not just yourself but others around you. When I heard Pollys video, it sounded similar to that. Also my daughters husband, who is ex-military, has such a heart for the youth, especially the ones who seem to be aimless in life. He chats to them on the streets if he sees them up to no good and they really open up to him, he genuinely wants to do something to direct them into a good future. One day I am sure they both will do something worthwhile to change some peoples life for the good. They only got married last year so who knows what the future holds, but if passion is the foundation, I hope they can build on that for a little bit of a better place at least wherever they end up living. Your vision is WAY BIGGER, bless you in your endeavours SirReginald!
Thanks for triggering such an upbeat, optimistic dialogue this morning. More and more lately, I'm seeing little outbursts of pent-up, altruistic hope like this and I really believe that it's a sign of something really good about to unveil itself and spread across the planet. Positive thoughts, good intentions, meaningful discussions and forward motion. That has got to work, no?
Your concept sounds good to me. I/we've been off grid in a GroovyYurt for 5 years now. We use 2% of the resources that we did in our prior lifestyle and it feels more luxurious now than it did then. Of course it requires a shift in priorities and an awareness of what really matters. We are lacking community though. With our values changed, we don't feel any deep connection to the community now. We crave relationships with like-minded people but they only seem to exist online. Our desire to participate in the economy is greatly throttled into a few possible avenues that feel worthwhile but it's tough marketing sustainability to a world that has or can get anything it wants in an instant. How do you sell a fruit tree seedling to someone that can tap their phone and have a beautiful piece of fruit parachuted in from the other side of the world?
Lovely! I used to speak with someone on voat.co who lived off the grid in a very leafy mountain, we were in contact via email and his photos were amazing. He said it was hard at first with his family, but they were a few years into it and loving it.
If, for some reason, we ever had to return to a house (box) and urban life with wires, etc, I think I'd die inside. Everything we need for our souls lies beyond our manicured reality.