I had all but given up on this blog.
For the last decade, my focus has been on Commune Life, the blog and the Facebook feed and for part of the last year, we've been on Mastodon as well. I ended that a couple of days ago. Fortunately, the Commune Life blog will remain accessible with well over thirteen hundred posts, a huge archive of information on income sharing communities. However that also means that over time it will become increasingly outdated.
With that over, I am hoping that I can return here. I am still (and perhaps more than ever) concerned about social change and I hope to post stuff here, at least occasionally.
My latest interest (besides social change and income sharing communities, both of which I remain interested in) is writing solarpunk. Solarpunk stories are optimistic speculative fiction, looking at futures where we actually survive and prosper. It's solar because it looks at futures with more ecological energy sources and it's punk because these are futures where people take things into their own hands, DIY, or better yet, DIT: Do It Together. And I have a blog for my solarpunk writing and reviews of positive speculative fiction (including utopian fiction). It's called Simple Joyful Futures.
And, just as I have seen communities as laboratories for social change, solarpunk and other forms of positive speculative fiction point to how we could be living better. As I have said many times, it's all connected. And I think my main purpose in the world these days is to point out possibilities. There are many, many alternatives, and I hope people realize that.
I will talk more about this in posts to come.
