The name Ten Thousand Ways represents the infinite possibilities that exist for different ways that humans can live, and also the belief that no one right way exists.

The Ten Thousand Ways gathering, held yearly, aims to bring people from disparate backgrounds together through this simple idea; the gathering exists for those who believe that our species can live in many more ways than we live now. At Ten Thousand Ways, we can meet like-minded individuals, make new friends, share and trade ideas, and network.

Hi, thank you for this community.  This is my first post.  Adam made me feel welcome by personally greeting me after I created my account.  Thanks for that.

Sharing the feeling of "whoa, the truth is intense, and what do I do about it," I came to the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center.  But before that, I wandered, discovered that I could live outdoors, found permaculture gardens the most spiritual places on earth along with unspoiled wilderness, lost all fear of speaking out through poetry, song, diatribe, or conversation; realized I could heal myself and help others do the same; and looked hard at the seams (seems) of so-called consensual reality for every fraying stitch that could be unwound to let in the truth of the planetary and human condition into more people's lives, including my own for ever more.

Its weird, thinking about the things that you think now and how they got to be that way.  I mean even in your own head, the road to getting here is long and takes many twists and turns.  There are switchbacks, whose purpose you don’t understand at all until after traveling them for so long, never seeing any real gains you break the ridgetop and see the valley below you and realize what they were for, and what it really was worth to you.

Charlie (bbbleaver) and I just got together with our significant others and had our first Puget Sound Ish Group meeting today! We had a wonderful brunch of fritattas, fresh strawberries, banana nectarine smoothies, organic hot cocoa and rosemary bread, at their home. A friend of theirs from the Atlanta Ish Group happened to be staying with them and joined us as well. We're going to start meeting every two weeks to share good conversation and good food, establishing a local community of people with a shared common vision.

This is a continuation of ideas presented in part 1, "The Giver Culture".   

The mother of my heart passed away this week.

I suppose I could use terms like "mother-in-law." I could further compound it by using the proper term "stepmother-in-law." Or I could confuse it by telling you what I always called her -- Mom.

I walked past a couple of people on my way home today, and all of them, except for one older person, reacted the same way; they moved to the side of the side walk and just barely responded when I said hi and smiled.

Copied from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6422581.stm

'Stone age' labelled 'offensive' Hunters in Namibia: Anthropologists say "primitive" is pejorative The phrase "stone age" has been labelled offensive by anthropologists who say it should not be used to describe living peoples.

In particular, the Association of Social Anthropologists highlights the way the term has been used to describe tribal and indigenous people.

I've seen the term "Our Culture" thrown around a lot here, and formerly at Ishcon, so naturaly, as an anthropologist, im curious as to what people actualy mean by that.  It would seem like a fairly important term since it is used often enough to provoke notice.  Since "Culture" itself is a fairly GI-NORMOUS topic (especialy in the globalized world) i'm interested in having a little discussion about it to try and get an idea of what people mean. 

 In this sense, I don't want to know what other people have written about the notion of "Our Culture", but rather what -you- mean when you use the term.