Looking for collaborators and caregivers to envision a future of mutual support together! Here are some of my ideas and thoughts, and a little bit about me.

My vision is to pair younger adults/younger working families who desire community, ownership, and collaboration, with older adults who need the same. It’s no fun to cook and clean and do life alone! I also am deeply concerned that so many folks are stuck renting. I want to offer tiny homes as a solution so they have something of value that can be sold or traded back to the community if/when they want to go somewhere else.

The emphasis would be on caring for each other in a way where we can all have time to focus on not only our work, but what brings us joy - talents, music, and inclusivity for all. Variety and friendship! I hate that going to see friends costs GAS - I’d love an evening to play a game of cards with a friend for 30 minutes, read someone’s kid’s books to sleep, so they can catch some time together as a couple, etc. I’d love to spend a morning lying side by side with someone in the sun on a lawnchair with coffee before work. Little stuff like that.

I would like to see a community that has spaces for disabled people who need to lay down not to be left out of community space. Hot tubs! Gardens! Morning music and evening campfire songs. Sweat ceremony, sauna, healing modalities. Just being able to chat with one another on the way in and out of the stuff we have to do to survive.

I envision some communal spaces like big eating places, and also private spaces. Ideally, each family would have their own kitchen and bathrooms for quarantine purposes, if necessary. Room for mobile folks who might live part-time on site, and part time somewhere else for work or taking care of aging parents, snowbirding, etc. I envision a “campus” in town - something near a variety of schools, but also near nature and exploration opportunities - this could even be set up as a business to care for additional folks needing short-term disability/recovery-type care post medical treatment.

I would love us all to know sign language! That would be neat for elders, folks who loose their hearing, and non-verbal folks.

Some things about me: I have worked in food service, hospitality and childcare for 14 years, 27 years as an owner of my own housecleaning business, and currently working as a caregiver in the state of Washington, where caregiving is unionized and healthcare is a $25 monthly bargain. I have always specialized in folks with ASD and EDS, so having spaces that are queer/neurodivergent, BIPOC, 420 friendly are important to me and others I hope to bring with me (we are in our 40’s). Many of us follow a variety of spiritual paths - I personally was raised Christian and consider myself a follower of Jesus, but absolutely not the MAGA type. I embrace and integrate all paths that lead to the betterment of humankind and stewardship of the Earth.