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Art installation near Auckland, New Zealand
''Community organizing is all about building grassroots support.
It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause.
And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics
and instead playing the game by very different rules.''
- Tom Peters
I have had so many conversations recently with people who feel lonely,
trapped in their houses, or find it difficult to make friends.
In the UK, as in many other countries, we have an affliction of separation.
We like to keep to ourselves, not bother anyone, stay at home and watch the TV.
But it wasn't always this way.
My grandparents would tell me about how as children they would
know everyone on the street, and always be outside playing with friends.
The parents would get together,
and would trust each other with their children for hours on end.
It was like this when I was a child, to some extent,
but I can see it becoming less and less common.
So when did we become so damn anti-social??
The world now is full of fear and mis-trust and I believe that ridding ourselves of that is the key to community living.
Tribal societies, and to some extent even some villages I know of in rural UK, have a much more worldly, trustworthy approach. They trust any adult to look after the children, and think nothing of gathering together to eat, celebrate, or simply chat for hours on end.
Our busy lives and schedules have diminished the value of communal living,
and that is a great shame because, above all
Humans are Social Creatures!
Many people today are coming together to change the narrative around communal living,
and I for one would love to bring my future children up this way.
A Woman's Words
By Amy Lou Martin
Live. Travel. Feel. Create.