What Happened Next

Mia has recounted the ugly conversation she had with our neighbours last week, in her recent post. Since then two of the neighbours, for reasons neither of us can really fathom (other than the idea that an intentional community, with everyone as equals, and decisions made by consensus, was threatening to them) became really abusive to Mia, to the point the owners of the land we were all living on evicted and banned them. It was like something out of a soap opera.

At any rate, we have packed up our cave and vegetation and stowed it away for a month. I'm going to be visiting her in Real Life as part of a combination business trip/vacation for the next few weeks. So we're unlikely to be posting much on this blog during that time.

When I return home, we're looking to buy what is called in Second Life a 'void sim'. This is a large island that is available at only 1/4 the monthly cost of a 'regular' SL island, but also has only 1/4 the maximum number of 'prims' (a measure of how much building and other development you do on your land). Many void sims are predesigned to certain natural themes, and they seem like they might be perfect for an Intentional Community where the objective is not (as in much of SL) to live out your hyper-consumer fantasies, but rather to find ways to live and make a living together in love, peace and conversation, responsibly and sustainably.

We're still looking for SL denizens, or SL-curious newbies, who might be interested in such an experiment in community living. E-mail us if that might be you.

Cal