What do interested parties have to do to become eligible for membership/joining?
Happiness is founded on realistic expectations, and so the first step has to do with addressing the expectations that you bring to Windward. The first step in that process involves some correspondence and discussion, and the Notes are intended as a way to speed up the process of conveying useful information about Windward. The second part of that involves the need for people to convey useful and needed information about themselves. The transition from a consumer lifestyle to a sustainable one‒from a competitive social context to a cooperative one‒involves some wholesale changes. It isn’t something that’s going to happen quickly, or without personal challenges and demands. There are a host of reasons why so many intentional communities fail, and some of those reasons are not intuitively obvious from the outside. We’ve built a system that works, and any new person has to start from the understanding that they’re joining us, and not the other way around. If some has an issue tha
