Commusings: Rebuilding the Village with Jake Laub

Commune with Jeff Krasno

Commune Media

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The single family home is so culturally accepted that we don’t see it as artificial, but up until recently, most people lived in villages. What did we lose when we left the village? And how can we get it back? This episode includes three Commusings in one — Ten Peas in a Pandemic Pod, It Takes a Village to Raise a Parent, and How to Grow an Agrivillage.

Go to RootedNW.org to learn more about the cohousing village mentioned in these essays.

Commusings are thoughtful essays and short-form reflections on spirituality, philosophy, health, and culture. For more musings and quotes, connect with us on Instagram at @onecommune or @jeffkrasno or sign up for the Commusings newsletter at onecommune.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasnow. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
0:13.3	It was the age of wisdom. It was the age of foolishness. It was the epic of belief. It was the epic of incredulity. It was the season of light.
0:25.4	It was the season of darkness. It was the spring of hope. It was the winter of despair.
0:34.1	I'm not sure there is a better quote from all of literature that encapsulates my experience
0:42.1	during COVID than this Dickens riff from a tale of two cities.
0:47.2	I harbored a lot of guilt during the COVID lockdown and there was tremendous suffering in every direction I turned my head.
0:58.1	I had good friends who lost parents and some of the hardest working entrepreneurs I knew
1:04.7	shuttered their businesses. Yet despite having limped through long COVID myself, I reminisce on this period with tremendous
1:15.0	nostalgia. As Jake will describe, our 10-person COVID bubble decamped on our property in Topanga.
1:24.2	It was there, sheltering in place that we congregated around the communal table every night,
1:30.3	that my middle daughter, Undine, taught my youngest Micah how to dance,
1:35.3	that we grew a wonderful garden and harvested eggs every morning from the chickens.
1:42.3	It was a taste of a simpler and more local life.
1:48.6	I was simultaneously holding the suffering of the world
1:52.9	and my own sense of contented serenity was a challenge.
1:58.6	And candidly it still is, But above all, this time reminded me of what is important
2:06.3	about life in the first place. Connection. Today's episode is a series of reflections from my
2:16.0	co-founder and brother from another mother, Jake Laub,
2:19.5	on the importance of community and how to rebuild the village.
2:25.3	So without further delay, I present to you, Jake Laub.
2:29.7	Thank you. Hi, I'm Jake, and this is 10 P's in a pandemic pod, part one in a three-part series on rebuilding the village. It's Thursday,
2:55.2	March 12th, 2020. The WHO has declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the NBA has canceled its season,
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