Caring:
I guess it means a place where people care eg when a crime has been committed about what they can do to create the conditions whereby it is less likely to happen again.
In Hastings, have I done enough to show I care?
Not yet; I've started though. Thus:
- I spend two months wages on creating (within a month of the fire) the People's Justice service: http://peoplesjustice.org.uk
- Well, I wonder how the community feels(?) about the fact that a tenth of the money raised so far (ie £1K of £10K) has Tescos name on it as the benefactor of http://hpwrt.co.uk
In Hastings, what do we share?
I speak for myself below:
- I'm planning to share two garage-loads of (mostly) useful stuff, or what might grandiosely be called 'community transformation stuff' -we all it; we all have possessions and skills; all this is the seed-corn for growing a trusting, resilient community.
- Earlier, I set up (with friend and fellow-transitioner Edmund) the Freelending Community Interest Company and associated freelender.org website which got the attention and some much appreciated pages of write up in The Moneyless Man (published 2010 and now being re-published in Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, German, Turkish, Portuguese (for Brazil), & Japanese too)
- Then, following the lead of Mark Boyle as The Moneyless Man, I experimented with re-labelling myself The Lend It All Man ; so that Hastings will have at least one resident willing to share everything he owns.
"Much as a value criticism as a fuel and way of modifying my plans, I'm particularly intrigued (from a series of emails from you) by the tone / sense of some annoyance with my plans and or my assumptions/ways of working.
I'm also intrigued by the extent that you believe the issues in Hastings are around lack of money, rather than that 80% of the improvement is possible without government money; just by creating a caring/sharing society there (which is my hypothesis)."Please add a comment below:
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Do I have the stamina to live the pipe-dream of being an agent of change in creating a caring-sharing society in Hastings?
A friend wrote: "I begin to speculate on the causes of slow implementation; competing value bases, newness claiming preowned territory, people full enough with their own take on things. And I notice my energy drain away and wonder if this was similar for you too as you approached the task?"
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