Fringe Thinking - Applicable to Community Living

Ostrom's 'research brought this topic from the fringe to the forefront of scientific attention', "by showing how common resources—forests, fisheries, oil fields or grazing lands, can be managed successfully by the people who use them, rather than by governments or private companies". Ostrom's work in this regard, challenged conventional wisdom, showing that common resources can be successfully managed without government regulation or privatization .

Ostrom identifies eight "design principles" of stable local common pool resource management:^[4]

1. Clearly defined boundaries (effective exclusion of external unentitled parties);
2. Rules regarding the appropriation and provision of common resources are adapted to local conditions;
3. Collective-choice arrangements allow most resource appropriators to participate in the decision-making process;
4. Effective monitoring by monitors who are part of or accountable to the appropriators;
5. There is a scale of graduated sanctions for resource appropriators who violate community rules;
6. Mechanisms of conflict resolution are cheap and easy of access;
7. The self-determination of the community is recognized by higher-level authorities;
8. In the case of larger common-pool resources: organization in the form of multiple layers of nested enterprises, with small local CPRs at the base level.

Luke's Conclusion: Seems like common sense findings but no doubt the task of successful implementation would also deserve a Nobel prize.

Sky ran it's candid lengths round the hoop of horizon

"This winter before Maytree came with Dreary, Lou had been orbiting
one galaxy of ideas as close as she dared. Could a person hold all
people past and present in awareness? She further wondered if doing so
was, by some errant chance, the point-toward what end she had no clue.
Not that life required a point. But she found herself starting to sway
toward eventually considering that there might be one. A point. Any
point." Annie Dillard...The Maytrees

Stars Sang In Their Sockets Through The Night

Annie Dillard imagines like me.

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Mr. Surprise visited me this week, sent from author Roger Hargreaves. He brought joy and reassurance when things were uncertain in life. The message he carried said, "interesting opportunity that suits your skills, passions, interests and situation...but act fast!". How tangible an experience, thought myself, the reader. It isn't everyday you run into the middle of a storybook and have the result become real change in your everyday life.

As he left, the reader wondered; who will be next to meet Mr. Surprise. Will it be Mrs. Surprise? This is silly, I don't live in book. But oh, this encounter did feel magical.
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Luke Wilson