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Welcome to Our Diary
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This blog is the diary of our journey to create an Intentional Community in Second Life. We hope to use it as a laboratory to discover how such communities work, and when they don't. Our blog... More »
Conversation and Community
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Our fledgling Intentional Community in Second Life. It's a simple, natural setting. We sleep in a cave beside a waterfall. Yesterday Mia and I, and our friend Mich, had a long conversation, using Second Life's... More »
Concept of Polyamourism Challenged
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DESPITE US TALKING about polyamourism at our first meeting, and my delight in discovering just how open and loving and trusting Cal was, his steadfast holding up of polyamourism as the ideal relationship model was sometimes... More »
"Community is Born of Necessity"
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Joe Bageant, at home in the Garifuna village of Hopkins, Belize, where I visited him last week The above quote is from Joe Bageant's son. It came up in our recent discussion on Intentional Community... More »
Twelve Things I Love About Mia
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In earlier post I promised to write about the things I love about Mia, my collaborator on this blog and in my efforts to create an Intentional Community in Second Life. As I thought about... More »
Why Are People So Wary Of Polyamoury?
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WHILE THE JOURNEY to polyamoury is a new one for me, we have heard from one of our readers who is further along in their exploration. They have a partner who is the treasurer for... More »
Hanna
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a short story from Cal's main blog at howtosavetheworld.ca "I want it all", Hanna told him. He'd been walking back to his hotel after his conference presentation and decided to stop at one of Paris'... More »
Enough Talk ... Let's Get On With It!
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IN THE PAST WEEK I've been thinking, "Enough of all this TALK about establishing an intentional community - let's just get on with it! Those of you who read Dave Pollard's blog, "How... More »
Creating A Second Life
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WHILE SECOND LIFE PROVIDES an ideal forum for creating a new life and expressing creativity, there is also a very strong spiritual component to our lives there as well. I was reminded of this not... More »
One Door Closes and Another Opens
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LAST NIGHT WAS VERY DRAMATIC and signals an end to our plans to buy the island where we now live with our neighbours. As we all know from John Lennon - "Life is what happens... More »
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May 2008