Community here on the coast now means shared responsibility for food, shelter, transportation, health care, and education - and achieving that goal has brought increasing and sustainable prosperity. Renewing and rebuilding our community over the past twenty years has engaged many more of us in civic projects - the new favorite recreation. Inspired by the idea that "Creating Culture Is Our Collective Art Form", everybody helps design, build, create, and then celebrate our collective success all the time. There are ample, diverse opportunities for all kinds of relationships and organizations, a profound respect for diversity, and a high sensitivity to the right to be left alone.

Our economic renewal created prosperity, opportunity, and diversity. The wealthier of us reinvested in the local business community, which helped more of us earn a good living. We really got it that true wealth means that every person has a opportunity to do good work, earn a comfortable living, and lead prosperous, long  healthy lives. Our increasing diversity made our culture richer and deeper, and give us more to appreciate about one another. We learned each other’s languages. We maintained strong individualistic and group identities, but at the same time became deeply invested in our integrated coastal community. Our children stayed, and made new families - because they could - and we again became a truly intergenerational community. Our kids checked in at home after school, before heading over to visit Grandma and Grandpa.