Find Your Niche

 I didn't write this, it was given to me by a woman who was in a group that I was in.  I think that it's amazing and wanted to share it.  And, of course, I want to add to it: Gardeners/Farmers/Growers, Networkers, Mediators, Teachers, etc.

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FIND YOUR NICHE IN THE REVOLUTIONARY ECOSYSTEM

HANDS ON A NEW WORLD

• PROTECTORS - PEOPLE WHO ARE WILLING AND ABLE TO BE ARRESTED, DETAINED, AND PERSECUTED

• DEFENDERS - PEOPLE WHO ARE ABLE TO MOVE THROUGH DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES TO DE-ESCALATE VIOLENCE

• PRETENDERS - PEOPLE WHO ARE ABLE TO QUIETLY ACCESS MAINSTREAM SOCIETY TO GATHER INFORMATION, SAFEGUARD PEOPLE, AND DISTRIBUTE RESOURCES

• CONNECTORS - PEOPLE WHO ARE ABLE TO CREATE AND UTILIZE SYSTEMS TO VERIFY AND SPREAD CRITICAL INFORMATION

• MENTORS - PEOPLE WHO ARE ABLE TO GUIDE YOUTH, FACILITATE DECISION MAKING, AND PROVIDE TRAININGS IN INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION, GROUP PROCESS, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

• AWAKENERS - PEOPLE WHO ARE ABLE TO BRING HEIGHTENED AWARENESS TO RELATIONSHIPS IN NEED OF REPAIR AND PROVIDE CONFLICT RESOLUTION

• MENDERS - PEOPLE WHO ARE ABLE TO SEW, FIX, AND REPAIR THE TOOLS AND INSTRUMENTS NEEDED FOR DAILY LIVING

• ADAPTERS - PEOPLE WHO ARE ABLE TO GUIDE US TO A LIFE SUSTAINING SOCIETY THROUGH LOCAL FOOD, NATURAL BUILDING, AND APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY

• CARETAKERS - PEOPLE WHO ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE CHILDCARE, GRIEF SUPPORT, ELDERCARE, HEALING, AND COUNSELING

• NURTURERS - PEOPLE WHO ARE ABLE TO COOK, CLEAN, AND OVERSEE THE DAILY FUNCTIONING OF SPACES

• UPENDERS - PEOPLE WHO ARE ABLE TO HELP US SEE IN NEW WAYS, SUCH AS WRITERS, ARTISTS, AND MUSICIANS

• SUSTAINERS - PEOPLE WHO ARE ABLE TO BRING HOPE, VISION, AND CONNECTION THROUGH SPIRITUAL PRACTICES, ANIMISTIC PERSPECTIVES, MEDITATION, AND PRAYER

• DREAMERS - PEOPLE WHO ARE ABLE TO IMAGINE AND ENVISION NEW WAYS OF BEING

• PONDERERS - PEOPLE WHO ARE ABLE TO STUDY, LISTEN, OBSERVE, EVALUATE, AND ADVISE

Returning--Slowly

 It's been over four years since I posted here and the few posts that I wrote in 2021 (4), 2020 (1), and 2019 (1) often talked about the fact that I had pretty much abandoned this blog--and it was pretty much true.  It has been truer over the last four years.

What I have been doing is shepherding another blog, Commune Life, all about income-sharing communities.  If you want to know what I've been doing over the last five or six years, check it out.  I've written a lot there.

But I haven't given up my interest in social change and now, even more than 2020 when I wrote that satire about how bad the year was, we desperately need social alchemy.  We've always needed a new society, we just need one now more than ever.  (And my interest in intentional communities, as I have said often, is as laboratories for social change.)

I realized recently that I have some stuff more directly about social change that I'd like to publish somewhere--and, of course, here is appropriate.  I also have some stuff that I've been publishing on Commune Life that I think would be very appropriate here.  So I'm returning to this blog.

One thing that I've learned from Commune Life is the idea that putting pictures on a post makes it more attractive.

So I'm going to start adding images to these posts.

I don't know how many posts I will do and I don't guarantee I will keep posting but I plan on putting out at least a few posts that I want to put out into the world, and we will see where it goes from there.

I am returning, but slowly, at least for now.