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Intentional Communities Newsletter: May 8, 2010
Promoting Community Living & Cooperative Lifestyles
Communities magazine, Directory, Video and more
Communities Magazine Current Issue in Print
New! Read Selected Articles Online
Including Two Articles and a Review Just Published on our Site
#146 (Spring): Family
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Available by subscription or sample order, and on select newsstands, our spring issue (#146) focuses on Family. Here's some of what readers will find: 
An
Abundance of Dads by
Skye Rios with Melanie Rios. Four
very different father figures help guide a communitarian son into adulthood,
as he combines distinctive traits of each.
Read this article now, just
published online.
Nudging at Boundaries by
Julie Boerst . Easing
themselves in and out of each other’s houses, yards, and chicken coops,
members of White Hawk Ecovillage find traditional borders becoming more porous.
Read
the above article online.
When an Ecovillage
Is Raising Your Child by
Kim Scheidt. Two
mothers at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage describe the benefits and challenges of
raising children with 30 different community “parents” also involved.
One Thousand Loaves of Bread: Reflections
on Life Lessons in an Intentional Community by
Understanding Israel, M.A. Education. Three
decades teaching children in the
crucible of community underscores the irreplaceable role of experiential learning.
Parenting in Community: The Voyage
from Fantasy to Reality by Jesika
Feather. Though “baby
having” had not been a consensus decision, a small community embraces
a newborn, survives his infancy, and bonds like any other family: doing each
other’s dishes, snuggling on the couch, and fighting over who gets a shower
before the hot water runs out.
Read
the above article online.
Growing Family in Community by
Ma’ikwe Ludwig. Twelve-year-old
Jibran has always lived with fuzzy boundaries between “family” and “community.” They
became even fuzzier when he came home to discover his mom’s positive pee
test.
Read the above article, just
published online .
Morehouse—Choosing
Your Family by Judy
St. John, Ilana Firestone, Marilyn Moohr, Arlene Goens, and Ben Oliver. You
can pick your friends but you can’t pick you family? The
members of Lafayette Morehouse would beg to differ, although the Cleavers they
are not.
Second Family by Arizona
Nashoba. A
mother responds to empty-nest syndrome by discovering her new family in community.
Read the above
article online
Being Almost Two Years
Old—Again by
Shepherd Bliss. Childless
by choice, a former military brat finds himself in the role of grandpa, being
re-parented away from his own rigid childhood into a greater appreciation of
life.
G8 by
Lawrence Siskind. They
don’t represent any governments, they don’t live together, and there
are nine of them, not eight, but these polyamorous friends still feel empowered
to love each other, addressing one
another with the f-word: family.
Exploring Family by
Chris Roth. What
do Hopi Indians, John Keats, lost loves, intentional community, and family have
in common? For better or worse, they’ve combined to befuddle, enlighten,
dismay, and inspire our author.
From Visions of Utopia to “The
Many Faces of Community” by
Maril Crabtree . Geoph
Kozeny’s community documentary brings forth reflections on Hearthaven,
discussions among neighbors and friends, and ultimately a new intergenerational
family community.
A Community Newcomer
Finds Her Rhythm by
Melanie Ravensong Martin. Thanks
to music, nature, and sympathetic fellow passengers, climbing aboard the Mothership
turns out to be not such an alien experience after all.
We’re All in
the Family by
Karbyn Eilde. Whether
within traditional families or in chosen intentional community families, most
people will have a chance to interact or even live with someone with Asperger’s
Syndrome (high functioning autism). An Aspie shares some tips on helping it go
well.
The issue also includes letters, a Publisher’s
Note on Problem Solving in Community,
a Cooperative Group Solutions discussion of Family
Dramas, and reviews of the books Together
and Apart and Eden Within Eden.
Also just published online: read
reviews of Together and Apart, and Eden Within Eden.
The Summer 2010 issue, #147, focused on Education
for Sustainability, is being edited and assembled.
We welcome article proposals for our Fall 2010 issue, #148, whose theme
is Power and Empowerment .
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more information.
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people like you makes Communities' continued existence possible and helps
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ways of living together on the planet.
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