This was an amazing interview; the ability for care and affection towards each other irregardless of our life circumstances, and care for all of nature is sparked when individuals in society connect back to the collective human spirit (the course of nature) which lacks in an individualist and capitalist society.
Absolutely - so much of what we long for is within our reach, and is deeply coded into our instincts - I think perhaps that's partly why the lack of it hurts us so deeply... we 'know' that we have all we need to take care of each other and we despair that we are not able to do so. However, the collective human spirit is so strong, it will rise. (And as the worlds-as-we-know-it continue to fall apart, even more so). Capitalism is anti-human xxx
I've signed up for the summit as well, and I'd love to hear more about AlterKin and developing a local network. As a single, child-free, only child caring for an aging mother, I think about who will do this for me, a lot. Thank you Alison, for sharing this.
Hi Jody, I listened to all of this and signed up for the summit.
I've never seen the host around, where is she to be found?
I feel like I've been living a bit under a rock post menopause and the dragon is waking up.
You are Articulating so well, my daily thoughts and actual happenings of creating sustainable intentional community with tasks of caring for each other in benefit of the whole. Not necessarily freindships.
I have a bettter understanding of another dimension of 'childless' voluntary and involuntary.
Ironic, I never wanted to have children the heavy conditioning and up close view of unhappy women, or abused, and so on — never me. Well, that didn't work out.
I love your vision and feel many similarities and love that you can hold a singular vision.
Just beautiful.
PS: I think often about my oldest child with two disabled siblings and wild wonderful me growing older. This gives me juice for a movement that is underway as I don't want it to fall on here. She is queer, tells me she is not going to have children, so by choice, but maybe - who knows.
The unconscious assumption of children taking care of parents, I never thought of that, but see it is true.
Thank you. I've been Joyfully Jodied.
I have a frined named Monica - similarities to you, we say Monicafied.
Lastly. I am all Irish accept the British 2% that Nana O says we don't talk about.
Hi Prajna - the organiser of the summit, Alison Palmer, is not very active on social media, so I guess that's why her work is not very well known perhaps? It's a fabulous line up, and I feel that you'd be a great speaker too - maybe reach out to her for next year?
I love that 'the dragon is waking up' as it has particular relevance for me as I turned 60 this year so once again, it's the Chinese Year of the Wood Dragon, which is me - a slow to burn dragon who can nevertheless set your house on fire!!
I was thinking of you and your situation yesterday when I was working on the transcript (only about 6 hours work!), and other parents of children who will need support throughout their life and how they so often (too often!) get forgotten in the narratives of aging.
Lovely to know that you are of Irish descent too :)
This is fabulously thought-provoking Jody. As a childless introvert, who has moved to the opposite side of the world from many of my long-standing friends and family, and continues to harbour fantasies of moving again, it raises big questions for me, and wakes me up to the need to prioritise the sort of lateral community you are speaking of as I age into my 50s and beyond. Thanks for sparking these thought processes and for planting some seeds of possibility...
Thanks you so much for appreciating Vicki - I know it's a lot of content to take in and even here on Substack, readers prefer things much shorter, but I hoped that some readers/viewers would get some value from it. It's a big part of the waking process of ageing for us all... xxx
This is wonderful! A brilliant look at the ridiculous expectations of the patriarchy and all the joy we can have without children even as we age.
Thank you for watching and reading! I'm so glad the joy came across :)
This was an amazing interview; the ability for care and affection towards each other irregardless of our life circumstances, and care for all of nature is sparked when individuals in society connect back to the collective human spirit (the course of nature) which lacks in an individualist and capitalist society.
Absolutely - so much of what we long for is within our reach, and is deeply coded into our instincts - I think perhaps that's partly why the lack of it hurts us so deeply... we 'know' that we have all we need to take care of each other and we despair that we are not able to do so. However, the collective human spirit is so strong, it will rise. (And as the worlds-as-we-know-it continue to fall apart, even more so). Capitalism is anti-human xxx
I've signed up for the summit as well, and I'd love to hear more about AlterKin and developing a local network. As a single, child-free, only child caring for an aging mother, I think about who will do this for me, a lot. Thank you Alison, for sharing this.
As my Alterkin pilot study evolves (from Spring 2025 onwards) I’ll be sharing the learning as I go - lots of us want to make this happen :)
And those of who do (or have) cared for aging parents don’t have the luxury of denial around it either… Big hugs xxx
Hi Jody, I listened to all of this and signed up for the summit.
I've never seen the host around, where is she to be found?
I feel like I've been living a bit under a rock post menopause and the dragon is waking up.
You are Articulating so well, my daily thoughts and actual happenings of creating sustainable intentional community with tasks of caring for each other in benefit of the whole. Not necessarily freindships.
I have a bettter understanding of another dimension of 'childless' voluntary and involuntary.
Ironic, I never wanted to have children the heavy conditioning and up close view of unhappy women, or abused, and so on — never me. Well, that didn't work out.
I love your vision and feel many similarities and love that you can hold a singular vision.
Just beautiful.
PS: I think often about my oldest child with two disabled siblings and wild wonderful me growing older. This gives me juice for a movement that is underway as I don't want it to fall on here. She is queer, tells me she is not going to have children, so by choice, but maybe - who knows.
The unconscious assumption of children taking care of parents, I never thought of that, but see it is true.
Thank you. I've been Joyfully Jodied.
I have a frined named Monica - similarities to you, we say Monicafied.
Lastly. I am all Irish accept the British 2% that Nana O says we don't talk about.
Hi Prajna - the organiser of the summit, Alison Palmer, is not very active on social media, so I guess that's why her work is not very well known perhaps? It's a fabulous line up, and I feel that you'd be a great speaker too - maybe reach out to her for next year?
I love that 'the dragon is waking up' as it has particular relevance for me as I turned 60 this year so once again, it's the Chinese Year of the Wood Dragon, which is me - a slow to burn dragon who can nevertheless set your house on fire!!
I was thinking of you and your situation yesterday when I was working on the transcript (only about 6 hours work!), and other parents of children who will need support throughout their life and how they so often (too often!) get forgotten in the narratives of aging.
Lovely to know that you are of Irish descent too :)
Jody x
This is fabulously thought-provoking Jody. As a childless introvert, who has moved to the opposite side of the world from many of my long-standing friends and family, and continues to harbour fantasies of moving again, it raises big questions for me, and wakes me up to the need to prioritise the sort of lateral community you are speaking of as I age into my 50s and beyond. Thanks for sparking these thought processes and for planting some seeds of possibility...
Thanks you so much for appreciating Vicki - I know it's a lot of content to take in and even here on Substack, readers prefer things much shorter, but I hoped that some readers/viewers would get some value from it. It's a big part of the waking process of ageing for us all... xxx