Over the week I was in Gulfport, MS with the other Americorps working with Habitat for Humanity and the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Project. I was specifically rehabbing a house in a neighborhood called Forest Heights I think. Extraordinary people, but it is a community where, when being developed 30 or so years ago, they had specific criteria for living there in the spirit of intentional community. I think the specifics included big stuff like the head of the house having a full time job, all the way to the grass couldn't be higher than 3 inches. I suppose it is as much a organized community as an intentional community, but the spokeswoman listed off occupations of some of the children who grew up there and I would say they produce citizens who end up heads and tails above most people coming out of similar economic backgrounds, or any background for that matter.
Now that is written out I am now sure that was worth typing, but I'm just sharing my most recent intentional community experiences.
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Thanks Blair. Thats the type of thing I think will be beneficial here, ones experiences with existing forms of intentional communities and the types of things we could adapt or think are useless. Over the next 6 months I intend to do some writing about the tribal communities and what perhaps we could take from that.
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