Zafer Achi

Spoken in English. Their words, as they said them.

And the act of balancing.

This place where we are here, the more we experience it, the more, we, at least me and maybe a couple of us, realize the extent to which it, it serves as an antidote to, the bigger forces that are at play in the world. Like the more those forces, are pronounced, the more this community makes sense. Not in a, you know, we're gonna, as Teix, we're gonna resist kind of way the Roman Empire, but in a in the sense that there are, that this is a haven where people who don't want to be swept away by the, the prevailing currents in the world can actually come and find a different way of relating. A place where what relations to relationships mean, what exchange means, what money means, what, caring means, what, you know, generations mean is is different from when you walk across the street.

It's funny, we did we did not start it as a way of balancing anything. Like this was not the intention.

But the attraction that it exerts on people, who visit is a lot around that. Like, they see it through the lens of, oh, it's like this here, and that's attractive because it's like that there. So that makes it more of a draw for for us. I find that interesting. And and once we once we realize this, we it becomes a question of do we want to emphasize push in that direction or just let it let it emerge?

And that's one of the inquiries in which we are involved.