For more than 20 years after college, I pursued the first two of these interests.  I studied Anthropology further at the University of Michigan where I earned a doctorate and researched how people in the Great Plains have related to their natural environment.  Following that I worked in academia, teaching for several years at Central Michigan University, then taking a once in a lifetime opportunity to move to Kazakhstan, where I participated in creating a new university with a big experimental vision.  After ten years of hard work and some great adventures there, my wife Tails and I decided that it was time to move closer to home and to balance the work part of our lives with some of our other interests.  We had seen videos and articles about Dancing Rabbit and thought that it could be a great combination of living simply with nature, being close to home, and hopefully experiencing some of the Community magic that I remembered from the Sunflower House.  We attended a visitor program in Summer 2021 and applied for residency as soon as it was over.

 

Here at Dancing Rabbit, I keep myself busy by working on projects and trying just about any new thing that comes along.  My favorite parts of life here include my cooperative kitchen Ironweed, song circle, and spending time with friends in the sauna that I built as my first big community project.  I keep learning important things about myself, like the fact that I’m not a great gardener and that I tend to take on more projects and responsibilities than I should.  It turns out that it’s true what they say – wherever you go, there you are.