Recreating Lives and Community began during a challenging period in my life, back in 2013-14. At the time, I had just lost my job—the one stable thing I could rely on. Feeling adrift, I decided to evaluate my life through six key categories: health, work, home, relationships, community, and lifestyle. In every area, I had hit rock bottom. This realization sparked a shift in my focus: how could I rebuild and create a life I truly wanted to live?
Recreating Lives and community was started at a time (2013-14} when my life was not going well. I had just lost a job, the one thing that was going for me. I looked at my life through the lens of a matrix of 6 life categories: Health, work , home, relationships, community, and lifestyle. My life in all those areas was a rock bottom. My focus became how do I recreate a life I want to live.
In Synchronicity, three new to things came into my life: Scott Dinsmore and his online group Living your legion, Charles Eisenstein’s and his book Sacred Economics , and the Pachamama Alliance and it’s affiliate group Awakening the Dreamers. Each of those gave my life a new meaning. Living your legend helped me to focus on what my purpose is . It also showed me how I can connect and build an online community. Charles Eisenstein and his book Scared Economics introduced me to the concept that we have the power to change our stories. The Pachamama Alliance and the Awakening Dreamers community Dreamers showed me the need to build a community of change makers.
From those three inspirations the idea of a community I named Recreating Lives and Community was born. But I found I need to learn how to better communicate online . I also knew that I needed to first focus on recreating my life. Then I need to connect with other change makers Learning how to build an online community was painfully hard. I built my website . But I knew nothing about building a community . But those miss steps and side steps helped me get clearer about what an online community is, and how I can build one.
Focusing on recreating my life brought me to a place of contentment . But something was missing . hat was connecting with other change makers . I started connecting with and building ongoing long-term friendships online. I connected with other change makers in groups like the Radical Faeries, I was introduced to and attending Radical Faerie gatherings. I went to Burning Man in 2015, and The Rainbow gatherings in 2022 and 2023. I followed my passion of social justice thru becoming part of a protest movement to stop the Genocide in Gaza. All of those brought me closer to bringing my dream of Recreating Lives and Community alive.
That is only the beginning of the story. A story that started with me to one that brings other change makers in a community . Each and every member of Recreating Communities are a part of the continuing evolution of a community of change makers who are writing a new story for all of us to build a better world.