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Growing up in a utopian commune – and the dangers that came with it; Marina Hyde on the Trump-Musk interview; and the power of embracing selfishness – podcast | Life and style

Growing up in a utopian commune – and the dangers that came with it; Marina Hyde on the Trump-Musk interview; and the power of embracing selfishness – podcast | Life and style

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Susanna Crossman describes her childhood in a utopian commune where children ran wild – and the trouble that came with that freedom; Marina Hyde assesses Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s glitch-ridden chat; and Moya Sarner reveals the life-changing power of selfishness, with the help of a simple phrase. How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know Source link

A little boy vanished without a trace in 2011. His grandmother believes he’s being kept on a Mormon commune

A little boy vanished without a trace in 2011. His grandmother believes he’s being kept on a Mormon commune

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For 13 years, no one has seen or heard from Timmothy Pitzen, an Illinois boy who mysteriously vanished in 2011 – but his loved ones believe he’s still alive and living on a Mormon commune with no access to the outside world or awareness that people are looking for him. Timmothy was just six years old when his mother Amy Fry-Pitzen picked him up from school in May 2011, claiming there was a family emergency. They then embarked on a road trip, visiting zoos and water parks across state lines. At the end of the three days, on May 14, Fry-Pitzen, 43, was found dead in a hotel room. Timmothy was nowhere to be found, but his mother had left behind a cryptic suicide note saying her son was “safe” and being cared for. But then it added: “You’ll never find him.” Timmothy’s paternal grandmother Linda Pitzen recently told the US Sun that after “torturing” herself trying to decipher the note, she is convinced her grandson is still alive. His childhood friend Hannah Soukup, who …

‘Everybody looks after each other!’ Fifty years of the commune that began with a Guardian ad | Life and style

‘Everybody looks after each other!’ Fifty years of the commune that began with a Guardian ad | Life and style

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Miriam Burns has had a busy day. It is only the early afternoon and she has already milked the cows and made lunch for dozens of people – a feast that included a giant tortilla, vegetables from the garden, carrot soup, and piles of perfect (and still warm) wholemeal rolls. She did lunch single-handed today. “You do kind of get in the swing of it,” she says. Supper tends to be more of a two-person job. “You’re more likely to have to go out to the garden and dig something up.” Burns, 61, lives at Old Hall, a vast manor house with 26 hectares (65 acres) in a Suffolk village, along with 51 others. On the day I visit, crisp and sunny and wintry, many people are out at work. “I think it’s healthy that most people have jobs, so they have a life outside,” says Burns, who works for the local NHS mental health team. Other residents are working on and around the house. Some are clearing beds in the garden, and a small …

My big move: I was a single mum living in a sharehouse. A commune gave us a stable place to call home | Australian lifestyle

My big move: I was a single mum living in a sharehouse. A commune gave us a stable place to call home | Australian lifestyle

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Some time ago I was a single mum living in a sharehouse in Melbourne’s inner north. While not an ideal housing scenario, I couldn’t afford to live alone, and I didn’t want to. Single parenting is isolating and about as far from “it takes a village” as it gets. But what is the ideal way to raise a kid? And where are the utopian communes of the 70s now? Through the hippy grapevine, I heard whispers of a cohousing community seeking new members. To clarify, cohousing is a model of intentional community with independent dwellings and shared living spaces, managed collaboratively by the occupants. In other words, a commune – but with more structure and fingers crossed, fewer wind chimes. This particular community was open to low-income earners. And I didn’t need to move to Nimbin, Copenhagen, or even out of my city to find this utopia. It was being built a few suburbs away. If cohousing was good enough for dreamy Danes, it was good enough for me. My application magnified my most idealistic …