By Design, very little happens, but by Traditional Life nearly nothing happens.
Therefore, I throw my hat into the Ring!

What is a Community Ring?

For all intents, there is little that hits it on the spot, the Ring does, it's more quantuum. Boxing Ring, Wedding Ring, Occupy the mind Ring, Occupy the World, no no no, let's try to attend to rings of community. While without help, no matter what I do, it'll miss the message. I'm too old to know anymore what is important, and I haven't tried everything, no, I'm a tad bit shy for most of my life due to a hearing problem that now has become tottering into a issue, an inability to meet others on a level playing field. Ears I have not got, and hands too..

Observation is all I think about, that and cooking. Art is for the young and inspired, but what do you think Art is? Perhaps just another business. So community has the real potatoes, and recently mine have been mashed. Joan Welsh & Harvey Ardman, Terra Diddle - Kathryn Oliver & Kristi Williamson, also Vinyasa Flow, CIFF Ben Fowlie & Sarah Ruddy, hard to forget the Tesseyman sisters and their Dance School, these videos are more, so much more than I know. Each teaches me that I don't know, or, am not allowed to see the shining source, only glimpse it, the monument of understanding that younger folk have about life meaning in doing something new, breaking ground, New Territory. While those my age are cement-minded into convention, and it too can be seen those slug-headed beliefs in the younger ranks. More later about that.

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Thoreau on OCCUPY EVERYWHERE!

Of course, while Thoreau didn't camp-out in Washington, he was a prescient speaker who knew the issue of the day, as activist and guide on the Underground Railway to Canada, his commitment to change is legend. Nevertheless, in this quote, he redirects anger at the government to self introspection. What we accept on the larger picture is no less than how we view ourselves.
"I sometimes wonder that we can be so frivolous, I may almost say, as to attend to the gross but somewhat foreign form of servitude called Negro Slavery, there are so many keen and subtle masters that enslave both North and South. It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave-driver of yourself. Talk of a divinity in man!"



Ragged Mountain in Morning Light

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OK, from the Midwest Permaculture site,
Permaculture is a creative and artful way of living, where people and nature are both preserved and enhanced by thoughtful planning, the careful use of resources, mimicking the patterns found in nature (bio-mimicry) and a respectful approach to life. ....

We are reminded, THERE IS MIDCOAST PERMACULTURE,
on Facebook & here.

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mind body and spirit

Community is Agreement in Values

So what values? Funny thing about Maine, we are on the outer most beach of the metropolis, so we can think about nature, quiet, recreation, body mind health, therapies, dance & singing and performance, culture in a microcosm, dining and love. The Camden Post is dedicated to these finer values in people who are advocates through their work and belief systems. Bring your views to these pages of video, and we'll help by providing video service. On the other hand, senseless and wrong kinds of values are disparaged here, such as "preserving" when the community needs to build strategically for the future. "Grandfathered institutions" should be eliminated and the playing field leveled and upgraded. Bureaucratic planning and restrictions should be reviewed. Towns need to combine services and downsize for a larger effective township. Governent consolidated. Beauty always exists in diversity. Concurring on values helps establish the direction we need to take.

Farmers Market

here

A Plan for The Future Now

Co-housing, or community integrated housing, is a way to build value in our lives as community. The Midcoast is potentially a very dynamic area, with already over 30% preserved, conservation, recreational land. If we think about how to develop WITHIN, to use space for better living, we would encourage more of the right kind of people to join us. If you believe the future is to be better, and want to work for it, then open your mind to change. Your decisions will encourage a more dynamic society. Be open to suggestions on how development solutions can create a better life for the community, and not how the next super rich guy can save Camden.

Neighborhood Development

Not tract housing, nor high end houses, but a layout of affordable homes for the common sturdy people, that are integrated by covenants, shared water and septic systems, LEED built standards, non-invasive lighting, good roads with access to schools and the villages, neighborhood organization, even gardens and recreation/playing fields, and aesthetic proximities good for all. The structures would be well-designed and safe. (Few people think out how dangerous the old housing hereabouts really is. Community cooperation could do housing trades to get people into new safer houses.) Last, or first, because the new age requires forgetting the "grandfathered money thing about value," it's time to forge new values that can structure a real community without waiting for the next super rich dude. All this plan can be designed to maximize potential farmland for truly meaningful farming/gardening of people.

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The Rig, a teen center held music performances this Spring.
This is a great video!

The RIG videos, 2011

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past pictures