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“It’s beneficial,” says Ruben about living in shared housing. He continues, “It's good for me to have more people in this building. I feel like when there's other people around, it's good for my …
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Richard doesn’t look like a former commune member with his starched oxford shirt, fancy watch and short-hair. “I’m bourgeois now, but I’m a hippie inside,” he says. The commune he helped to …
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Hopscotch. We played the game every day after school. We played it on the sidewalks and in the playgrounds outside the eighteen-floor brick building that was our home in Brooklyn, New York. We played …
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Harriotte herself is so capable, enthusiastic, warm and independent that it is easy to forget she is blind. As she says, “my friends will leave me on a curb” not remembering that she can’t see. She …
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The Twin Oaks Community, forty minutes from the city Charlottesville, Virginia hosts an annual conference on intentional communities. Its a conference that discusses a few different styles of shared …
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Loneliness is painful. This is not a metaphor. The pain of loneliness lights up the same parts of the brain as physical pain. When you experience the pain of hunger, you go and find some food. When …
