Caring in Community

Peace, tolerance, and a sugar topping of hope for our future...

• Tuba Man - now that's a community well built and a life well lived.
• Rufus Jones - enjoyed his family's hospitality: church mice, straw mattresses and brass beds all.
• Scott Nearing - my father brought us to him in his last year to apologize for the U.S. Communist Party's ignorance.
• Phil Bolger - a brilliant boat designer for the common man, libertarian, an iconoclast like Nearing.
• SimpleLiving - could apply to Phil Bolger's simple boating too.
• Call to action - of many sorts.
• PeaceAbbey - bingo.
• Fairness - attempting truth talking to power.
• PBS - television intended to uplift not drag down the polis.
• WoodenBoat Magazine - still pretty & not completely a coffee table rag.
• New England Complex Systems Institute - applying complexity to real problems.
• Santa Fe Institute - a fine theoretical more than practical group.

Check out these other great open-source software sites.

• LinuxMedNews - general open source news
• Alexander Caldwell's tkfp - an EXCELLENT project, but all of these nonprofit software efforts are being swamped by a tidal wave of marketing from new swarms of corporations that smell profit...
• OpenEMR
• OSCAR
• Crisnet
• VISTA
• SQL
• FreeMed YIRC
• Open Healthcare Group
• FreeMed
• AccessGP -  like many early open source EMR efforts, this has vanished from the web or been absorbed into other efforts

Q: You are a pacifist even to class struggles?
[Nearing]: I am a pacifist in that I believe that no man has a right to do violence to any other man.
Q: Even in the class struggle?
[Nearing]: Under no circumstances.

"The secessions in [Scott Nearing's] life were progressive repudiations of American canons of moral conduct as well as indications of Nearing's perception of the fragmented, segmented, discontinuous nature of American society. [Scott felt that] only in the isolated private sphere provided by homesteading could a radical resistance and constructive challenge to capitalist culture be nurtured...

In his devotion to conscientious self-reliance, Nearing emerged as a twentieth-century colleague of Emerson and Thoreau."

Saltmarsh, "Scott Nearing: the Making of a Homesteader," 1998.