The Blog Tour

by Raven

WordPress informs me that this is the nine hundred and first post on the Commune Life blog.  Rather than waiting another thirty-three weeks for our one thousandth post (do the math), I am using this opportunity to give new (and old) readers a little tour of this blog.  I think of this blog as a treasure trove of information about communal living and, with over nine hundred posts, if you are interested in some aspect of commune life, I’m hoping you can find what you are looking for here.

I didn’t design this blog and I am sorry that it is so hard to navigate.  On the top right hand corner of this blog is a set of three lines.  If you click on them, a menu drops down.

I am going to show quite a bit of the menu and then I’ll explain some of it, before going on.

This is the first half of the menu.  The first link is to our welcome page.   Here’s a snapshot of the beginning of it.

It goes on to describe several of the communities featured in this blog.  (Some of this is older print from the days when we could have nice bright red links.)  It’s designed to orient new readers and covers some of what we will cover in this tour.

Below that on the menu is a list of almost all the communities that are covered here–and, unfortunately, many of them are long gone.  It gives quite a bit of communal history.  If you want to know more about any community that we have covered, all you need to do is to click on the link and you will see all the posts about that community.

If you look closely, you will also notice a subsection about various communal projects.  Many of these are defunct as well, although the Federation of Egalitarian Communities (the FEC) continues to network the communes and the four summer festivities (the Communities Conference, the Queer Gathering, the Quink Festival, and the Women’s Gathering) are still all happening in Louisa, Virginia, and I think they are currently (2023) being organized for this summer.

There are also links listed for posts on rural communes and urban communes.

The rest of the subjects beyond individual communities and communal projects are on the next list as a subsection of what I titled “What Else”–just to stick it at the end.  (Again, I didn’t design this blog configuration or I would have tried to come up with something less clunky.)

As you can see, there are a lot of subjects.  My hope is that if you are interested in only one aspect of communal living, say Children or Consent Culture or Finding Community or Technology, you can click on the link to find out more and read what has been posted on the subject.

Whether you are researching income sharing communities or interested in living in one or simply just curious, I hope that you can find what you are looking for here.  This post is a little break to bring readers up to speed on what’s available from this blog.  From here we go back to our usual posts.