We have a departure date!
(But maybe I am getting ahead of myself!)
But our eyes have always been a bit too big for our stomachs.
So our little trip morphed, to use a Minecraft word, into a pilgrimage. First, we wanted a vacation, but large families don't have an easy go of the vacation thing. And then we dreamed of "traveling' without a destination in mind. But we wanted to come back with stories, from specific places, told by real people.
Here, we figure, has a lot in common with lots of other places. We are specifically interested in the places that are engaged in the kinds of mindful change that we'd like to see in our hill town communities. We're looking for those with the foresight to plan for a transition to a more equitable society, those that are preparing us for a climate changed world, one that necessarily must adapt from consumer-centric masses to resilient (and often self-reliant) placed based communities.
So we are building a map - I still haven't quite got it right, yet - to share with all of you. It's a path of stories, we hope, across our great United States, that will excite our imaginations and nurture our own best strategies for engaging our neighbors and planning for our future.
We are, as we suggest, determined to thrive, despite what feels like mounting odds against us.
And we think that sometimes the best way to grow is to bring back some seeds of change.
(But maybe I am getting ahead of myself!)
My unschooling family of eight will be hitting the road on April 1st! After five years of running a general store in bucolic upstate New York, adding three more babes to our young family, and living deeply and richly in a community, wanderlust whispers seductively: just a little trip.
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| Photo credit to H. Soderquist |
So our little trip morphed, to use a Minecraft word, into a pilgrimage. First, we wanted a vacation, but large families don't have an easy go of the vacation thing. And then we dreamed of "traveling' without a destination in mind. But we wanted to come back with stories, from specific places, told by real people.
Here, we figure, has a lot in common with lots of other places. We are specifically interested in the places that are engaged in the kinds of mindful change that we'd like to see in our hill town communities. We're looking for those with the foresight to plan for a transition to a more equitable society, those that are preparing us for a climate changed world, one that necessarily must adapt from consumer-centric masses to resilient (and often self-reliant) placed based communities.
So we are building a map - I still haven't quite got it right, yet - to share with all of you. It's a path of stories, we hope, across our great United States, that will excite our imaginations and nurture our own best strategies for engaging our neighbors and planning for our future.
We are, as we suggest, determined to thrive, despite what feels like mounting odds against us.
And we think that sometimes the best way to grow is to bring back some seeds of change.
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