Communes Re-visited

According to an article in today's Washington Post, those who track consumer trends are noticing an increased interest in intentional living communities. While once these communes, as they were called, were viewed as alternative lifestyles for hippies, today's intentional communities are hosting people from all walks of life. For a variety of reasons including common beliefs in spirituality, economics, sustainability or just to live among friends, it's estimated that 100,000 Americans have chosen this way of life, one third of whom reside in urban areas. Others who prefer a rural way of life often live on farms and grow and sell their own food.  The Fellowship for Intentional Community has information and links to intentional communities that are up and running as well as those who are forming. A visit to the site showed a wide assortment of environments from ecovillages or communes where all the income is shared, to cohousing where folks live separately but within easy reach of options for fellowship.