1. The critical point remains unpredictable
Then I made a desire to live independently and rely solely on my abilities. Not only Corona and now the floods from the heavy rains show, the village is vital. It lives, it has lived - its own dynamics, its own little story, independent and detached from the rapid and dazzling development in the cities.
There are regions in Germany that are provinces by virtue of their very topography, remote, closed off, on the outside. But these remote villages have developed in two directions, according to one study: In one, the inhabitants crawl into passivity and victim mentality. In the other, there is a climate of openness and change.
2. The house with 4 walls
So far, far away: a small abandoned house, in a small abandoned village, in a big abandoned land. Here the villages were deserted long enough, the baker had to close, the hairdresser and finally the doctor left. It is the small impositions of life that have an effect here in this small village, my beloved small community. The world relationship to which we align ourselves is not our differences, our ethnicities or our attitudes, no, it is the common problems that unite us here.
- Working with your own hands
- Cooperative empathy
- Cultural urbanization interspersed with village qualities
- A deliberate "we" culture as a social structure
- The search for solutions for a better quality of life
