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As an alternative to the more typical retirement, have you
considered joining an intentional community? Are you open to
volunteering your time and talents — say, for six months… or
perhaps for several years — to serve the less fortunate among
us? The deeply meaningful life within an intentional community —
where you begin each day sure in the knowledge that those around
you await with eagerness your wisdom and caring — is in stark
contrast to the feelings of loneliness and isolation, the sense
of being unneeded, that many experience in retirement…
The author, Virgil Stucker,
is executive director of CooperRiis, a residential
therapeutic ”healing farm community” for people with mental
illness or emotional distress, which is located on an 80-acre
farm in the village of Mill Spring in western North Carolina. |
