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[novapsyche]

F and I are seriously considering moving to an intentional community. I'm looking in Oregon and Michigan, primarily. It will be hard, finding a place that fits both of us. We're in different places in personal development.

Reading all those descriptions of different communities made me anxious to put to paper my own ideas for my proposal for a network of communities.

And wondering... why we laugh at so many unfunny jokes in our lifetimes? What wasted time. If there is ever a concept such as "wasted time," laughing at something unfunny must qualify. A joke, or a statement, or a slightly tense situation, where a laugh will paper over small misunderstandings. What is it about laughter that disarms people? Why do we use laughter as a defense mechanism, a disguise, a falseness in itself?

Ack. At least I'm writing poetry again, haphazard though it goes. The idea of getting into community has resparked my hope, I think. It's nice, at this point in my life, to simply have a desired direction in life. The real trick, of course, will be in actually following through with a course of action to get moving in said direction.

Of course, getting into community implies moving. Can there be a move that is looked forward to?

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[vaxjedi]

Hmmm.... Intentional Communities. I am a bit wary of such things, given some of the trouble that the one I am in has been through. (It's a poly household. That's sorta an intentional community).

I am up for such things, generally. I'd want to know a lot about it before hand, however. I'm a bit picky about certain parts of my life.

I guess I've become a bit jaded over the years.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

You're not the only one who's grown jaded, my dearest. I haven't liked myself very much these last two years.

I can't say that going to an intentional community is all hunky-dory and that it would work out for me in all actualities, because I don't know that. But I have hopes. So I pursue them. If it isn't for me, hopefully I will see that in the next five years, and I will be steered in another direction.

I think I'm just too much of a communist at heart. :P)

[vaxjedi]

I'm a communist at heart too.

However, I have realized how easy to be upset when one feels cheated, even in terms of just household chores or free time. I also know that I am not easy to live with.

I don't want to be the cheated or the cheater. So I am wary.