by Raven
Okay, beginning catch up. I’m starting with what we put on Facebook at the end of July.
I’m getting old (it’s true!) and I can repeat myself. Usually, on longer pieces, I edit so that I’m not saying the same thing twice too often. It’s harder when I’m trying to put out lots of small posts and I’m not paying as close attention. Which is why I used practicallly the same start to two successive Facebook posts. In one I said that they were “finally starting to finish” and in the second I said that they were “finally finishing”. It was true in both cases, but I wished I found a different way to say it in one of them.
At Twin Oaks, it was about the year long Llano renovations.
This post did very, very well. Maybe people were happy that they ‘finally finished’ the Llano renovations.
At Acorn, it was their work remodeling the smoke shack.
Acorn wrote:
I don’t know if folks were less interested in Acorn’s smoke shack work or they were already sick of me saying “finally finishing” but this did a lot less well.
Finally (I’ve got to stop using that word–but this is beginning, not finishing) I put some pictures from the Twin Oaks site of the signs they were putting around for the conference site. Appropriate, since I was just about to put the Facebook page and this blog on hold for August while I attended the Queer Gathering and the Communities Conference on this site.
This didn’t do too badly, considering how hard a time I’ve had publicizing the Twin Oaks events on Facebook. It did get 115 views. Of course, it didn’t get any comments or likes.
On Monday, the actual report from the Queer Gathering.
commune life 
Hi Raven,
I saw that you’re looking to start a new commune in New England. How is that going? I am looking at joining one in the near future.
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Hi Raven (nice name!): I just saw this (six months later)–I’m embarrassed, I don’t know if I replied to you or not. I suspect that someone else approved this and I didn’t even see this comment until now–but my memory is bad enough that I don’t know that. If you see this and you are still interested in New England community, contact me at moonraven222@gmail.com
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Raven I commented and was interested in your desire to co-create community but either I was misunderstood or just ignored? I a m not a techno person so perhaps I screwed up my initial response? I am desiring to have a heart to heart conversation with you! I have lived communally since 2004 until 2021! 785-940-1811 I currently live in Ft. Collins, CO
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Hi Alish, I’m sorry. I just saw this (six months later) and I don’t know what you are referring to about your previous comment. (Sometimes some other well meaning person approves the comments and I never see them.) If you are still interested in being in contact with me, please write me at moonraven222@gmail.com
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Hello. I would like to request that the picture of my father, Frank, be removed from the post and any other post on your website. I’m the member referred to in the post and I helped my father with this project. I did not wish for my picture or any picture of my family members to be shared in relation to Twin Oaks. I no longer wish to be associated with Twin Oaks in any way and I will not allow my image or the image my family member to be use to promote this organization. I do not believe that it upholds its own values and, in my experience, it hurts many young people who come to the community with genuine intention, only to be met with manipulation, exploitation and gaslighting. Take down his picture.
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Done!
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