Dear Open, and Openhanders,

Upon reading your latest post, Open, one of the things that jumped out at me, was the exact thing that me and my own little family unit are missing - sense of community with others walking the lesser trodden path.

At a time when a big open-air Whisky/ Beer drinking venue has opened next to our family home, leaving us suffering from sleep deprivation and making it very difficult to meditate and find any sense of peace - it feels like in our little microcosm is a reflection of the overall chaotic macrocosm. Is anybody else experiencing this reflection?

It also drives one to think of a lighter world, where people live together harmoniously, united in the common purpose of discovering what is real (living beautifully), and creating from a higher sense of being (creating beautifully). My wife and I feel very alone, as if our house were swimming in an ocean of suffering and drunkeness. It's all around us. We are, it seems, the only ones we know who wish to walk a different path, We can't help but wonder, where is our Sangha? Will we ever find it? Will it ever come to us? We wish there were just one other family somewhere down the road who we could relate to? Another family to unite with in the spirit of walking a beautiful path.

On a less personal level, we wonder how we might all come together? How will it come about? When will we all take bigger steps towards making this happen? Is the time not now ripe for all who are striving to walk a path of light to be coming together, to be knowing one another and to be co-creating the new ways of being? How will we travel to meet one another? Will the borders fall with the old constructs as I feel they will?

I look forward to hearing back from anyone

Kind thoughts in all directions