Hello Dear Reader,

What do you think of our new website? We hope you like it as much as we do. We’re really thrilled you won’t be spied on here, or have your data mined and sold onto third parties, and there will be no manipulating of your algorithm while you’re visiting us here. These are just some of the reasons why we collaborated with the wonderful meta4 team, Lorne and Juanita, to begin our steady transition away from Big Tech platforms. We’d love to hear of your plans and actions if you are considering doing the same. Equally as important, this new Artist as Family website houses all of our thoughts, blog posts, projects, videos and much more in the one independent place.

We feel quite grown up to have our own site, but to be completely transparent we also fear it not being as easily and seductively as interactive as the other media sites so please do comment, ask questions, share posts and bring others into this non-commercial autonomous zone. Yes, we agree, how can a website that relies on a coal-powered internet be anything but a contradictory thing? Our response to this may not satisfy some but if we don’t collectively share our narratives using this technology of trying to walk in right-relationship with the flowering, fruiting, sacred earth, then we can’t really begin or maintain our transitions and start the work that our future communities will need to build upon.

To have a little grace, thank you Youtube, Facebook, and Instagram for the numerous years of free story-sharing. It’s not entirely your fault you’re following an aggressive capitalist power agenda. It’s the dominant culture you grew up within, which if you don’t challenge you just end up going along with. Our elders have failed us. They have used fallen patriarchy – the forms of competitiveness and dominance – and put them before the mothering of the world. We all suffer for it, even the power seekers who will be the last to see it. Maybe one day they will. That will be a wonderful time for all. This is the world we seek. Between all three Big Tech platforms we use (well two really as Instagram is Facebook) we have around 25,000 followers. No small feat for unusual storytellers and unconventional culture makers. But before they ‘misinformation’ us, shadow ban or cancel us out entirely we’ve begun to make the leap.

Here, with the help of local love-futurists Lorne and Juanita, we have produced a CommonsTube to host our videos and this general website where we will share our writings, events, featured podcasts, public talks and photographs. We will continue to use the Big Tech platforms until they either completely disappear us from view or enough of you come across and subscribe here. We wish to get to 5000 dedicated subscribers before we decouple altogether from these powerful manipulators. So please sign up, and share with friends.

Previous blog posts were created over at Blogger between 2009 – 2020 and transported here.

Thanks so much for joining us on this new journey.