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Caring in Community is a small group of health care professionals committed to helping others. In our time of rapid change and broken human relationships we want to slow down, stand up, and hold on to traditional wisdoms while adapting to the increasing chaos and complexity of a world needing more peace makers. Our mission is to build peaceful community through theory and praxis. This site shares some of our published research in chaos and complexity and our practical healing projects. For over a decade our democratic cooperative Caring in Community has remained a crucible to test many idealistic theories of social change in the searing flames of real life experience . Our many small community actions demand the virtues of love and compassion at the grass roots. Our scientific enquiries express a similar creativity, curiosity, and open-mindedness. We can trust the potential of spontaneity and synchronicity to carry ripples of change further through society as profoundly as the philosophy of Lorenz's butterfly effect allows. As a nonprofit group we borrow the adage that money is like air - you may need air to live, but there is a lot more to life than breathing - and profit seems to be as ephemeral as air, hard to grasp, here today, gone tomorrow, and about as addictive as cocaine... once you start you may never seem to have enough. For these reasons we are committed to the enduring value of being nonprofit. Healthy families are nonprofit. Healthier communities are not for profit. Volunteering to profit others and not ourselves profits all. In this way we hope to keep the dream alive. We began with free house calls to patients in need. Cottage_Med grew out of this effort to become our biggest (worldwide) community project with over 12,000 downloads. Your donations of support continue to help our peace making programs grow. Please enjoy your visit with us. Come to visit any time. Dream as high and wide as you can possibly imagine. We need more dreamers in this world. Share your thoughts and feelings. We love to help. 
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