The night is so silent here that it s possible to forget both where I am, and where I am in time. In some moments, this makes me uneasy. I am taking part in the spring work action for ZEGG, the German abbreviation for Center for Experimental Cultural Design. I am traveling with Maria, my German friend and lover. We connected in Berlin and stayed only long enough to leave, traveling through the graffitied, beige-bricked eastern part of the city and taking a series of four trains to Belzig.
Travel is good for creating new impressions of the world.
As we get near to our destination, suddenly Kansas doesn t seem so rural. ZEGG is an experimental intentional community located about 80 kilometers from the city. One of perhaps 1,000 such living projects now underway in the world many of which receive visitors gladly the stated intention of this community is to attempt to live non-violently with the Earth and with each other. An informational e-mail I received from the community several weeks before arriving says that we will not end war until we end war in love. That is catchy.