I have an idea for a group that I’d like to build, and given that you are all my neighbors, I am hoping that some of you might be interested in the joining me to brainstorm ways to build community resilience. I won’t go too much into what inspired this idea, at least not here, but an image of a Golden Web came to me, and I remembered the amazing golden orb weaver spider whose web shines in the sun with strands that rival steel in tensile strength. At a time when our social safety net is being hatcheted, it might be up to us to weave an imperfect replacement. Each one of us holds a strand of the web. The idea is part mutual aid, part disaster preparedness, part skills trade, maybe some bartering, plus anything else we can devise together.
If you’d like to join, please email me at: thegoldenwebcollective@proton.me. I hope to meet some of you, and to weave together.
Your neighbor,
Christy C