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The Founders' Dilemma The "founders' dilemma" is the creative tension between affirming the original intent of a community, while at the same time being deeply responsive to the need for growth, flexibility, fresh air. New people arrive with strong and good dreams of their own. How can their visions be woven into the original tapestry without obliterating it? I have been on both sides of this dilemma. I grew up in Arden, one of the oldest of today's intentional communities, but left there in the early seventies... | |
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On Loan From the Universe (The Lofty Chronicles: Part Two) ...And Lauren can help us learn to work, if only we have the eyes to see. Pleasurable work is playful work, and children are the masters of play. Day by day she models her mastery for us, if we will but wake up enough to recognize and value it. We come from the pole of responsible work; she from the pole of spontaneous play. Together we seek a common ground called pleasurable work, one that both eases Lauren's transition into adulthood and that restores our own child-like delight in the tasks before us. | |
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