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How can you make your community thrive? | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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A village can be a neighborhood, a town, a group, an extended family, a church, or a business where most people know most others, at least by sight or within three degrees of separation. Thriving is a quality of a village: its culture, webs of relationships, traditions and rituals, and volunteerism. We make the village by living. Maybe it’s a verb? We village. In a recent post, I explored the role of matriarchs in thriving communities. And how “thriving communities” – as documented in dozens of
How can you make your community thrive? (opens the original)
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By Vicki Robin, originally published by Coming of Aging A village can be a neighborhood, a town, a group, an extended family, a church, or a business where most people know most others, at least by sight or within three degrees of separation. Thriving is a quality of a village: its culture, webs of relationships, traditions and rituals, and volunteerism. We make the village by living. Maybe it’s a verb? We village. In a recent post, I explored the role of matriarchs in thriving communities. And
What makes a community thrive? Look to the matriarchs at its heart (opens the original)
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By Vicki Robin, originally published by Coming of Aging Trigger warning: slightly offensive slang. Fifteen years ago, I used a term for a committee we formed to grow our local food system. I called us the “fat-bottomed (cause I have one) middle-aged women (cause I was one) who run the world” (FBMAW) – the older women who volunteer for committees, organize groups, answer phones, facilitate meetings, run events, see what’s needed and act. You could call us matriarchs, and we, FBMAW, are everywhere
Remembering Richard Heinberg: 'One of my core mentors is gone' (opens the original)
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By Vicki Robin, originally published by Coming of Aging It’s 2004. I’m recovering from a second colon cancer surgery. The first one a year earlier had me look hard and long at my life as an unstoppable activist – who’d been stopped. What was driving me? Does my life need to change? I did change. I moved to a small town and art packed my days – writing, painting, singing and dancing. My well was filled. I made friends, and felt a soothing rhythm from the ordinariness of the village and its ragtag
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