A good community, in other words, is a good local economy. It depends upon itself for many of its essential needs and is thus shaped, so to speak, from the inside—unlike most modern populations that depend upon distant purchases for almost everything, and are thus shaped from the outside by the purposes and the influence of salesmen.

start actively looking for "specific" mentors

Who socialized me to avoid people when I feel frustrated? Having a roommate to bullshit in the morning with tangibly made me feel better. Talking to a patron at my workplace and complaining about work together allowed me to actually do the work.

"Protectitng you're peace" is atomizing propaganda.

COMMUNITY is the most malleable material of REALITY

community building -> world building

assembling my squad = creating my world

no matter what i do, no matter which hat i might wear - i am always a community organizer. that is the most truthful way to describe my ambitions in every pursuit.

sometimes its being a good friend.

sometimes its repearing, nurturing and building community platforms.

i wholeheartedly believe in communitieS. very plural.

a truly safe space should allow and nurture existence outside of the social roles people normally occupy in their families and workplaces

Heaven is, in the end, wherever we are fully known and fully loved.

"To be valued without having to stay on beat, without having to perform."

When you choose your friends today, you are choosing your habits tomorrow.

When performing a ritual, we make the part of ourselves that participates in the ritual like the ritual. We give up a bit of requisite variety, shape our range of motion, act in structured ways, to gain what the ritual has to offer. When many of us participate in a ritual, we each become the like the ritual. The ritual is an interface, a common set of procedures. It can act as a stable point of coordination, a “source-of-truth”, in software terms, or a lego dot that helps us click together. In this way, rituals can be a kit for constructing community. Perform the ritual together, and a particular kind of community will emerge around it. Rituals channel our collective energy in a particular shared direction. There are returns to scale on coordination, so, ritual is adaptive.

Principles in development for Liberated Relationships:

• Radical honesty: No omissions, no white lies, no projections. Ask the questions you really want answered, speak your truth, and let the relationship build inside all that reality. Just a note from experience, the small lies can be the hardest tot shop telling. "No I don't want to get on the phone right now, can we just text?"; "I'm busy catching up on my reality TV show"; "Real cow milk ice cream"; or "I know I said I didn't want to ___, but now I do." However, the more you practice this, the more you will find yourself spending your waking hours in the ways you want to, the ways that honor the miracle of your existence, which was not given to you to waste in polite avoidance of hurting people's feelings. You will find that you can be honest and kind, you can be honest and compassionate.

• Acknowledge the dynamics, then keep growing. Have an understanding on the front end of the race, class, gender, ability, geographic, and...