Kibbutz

"One time we met at a waffle house and she tells me she lived at a Kibbutz in Israel over the Summer and wants to join the IDF to 'take pot shots at people on the border.'"

"experiences with alternative ways of life? communes, kibbutz, monastery, cloister, intentional communities, nomadic, squatting, etc? want to hear your weird stories about life on the margins of society"

"Everywhere I've been in America is the same lonely suburb. The older I've gotten the more I dislike this way of life, humanity isn't supposed to live like this - far away from close ties, under constant stress, isolated from a meaningful culture, etc. 50 more years is going to be too much. If I want"