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BUILDING A COMPOUND LIFE SITUATION ONE: It was 1996 when I first heard Dave in Arizona talk about his brothers building a "family compound." His family members were middle-aged, his mother in her early 70s, he and his brothers and their wives were fed up with all the house problems and with unusual city violence they had endured leading to them all feeling unnecessarily ill, gaining a great deal of weight for unknown reasons, and a general malise -- the family was suffering, possibly even in danger of survival. They decided to take extreme measures to cure their scenes. The family sat down to a pow-wow and pooled their funds, and decided to build a compound for sthe duration, a place of refuge and safety and communal living near where they lived in central eastern California on a sizable, about eight acre parcel of land. They really did this and in 1998, two years later the family moved into their made-to-order communal living site, "compound," as they officially called it. The compound had a tall 10' solid concrete wall around it...it had an electric gate...it had their mother, who at 70 some years, was grateful to have some protection but was scared to go to doctors for a clean-up. But her 50-something boys, four of them plus their wives, began to try to keep everything in order. The couples had each built homes inside and another for their mother. I imagined that they were keeping meaner dogs on the exterior areas...near the large electric fence, like Dobermans, pit bulls, etc. with dog houses to live in there. I was fascinated hearing about the compound from Dave for a few years and then seeing the results in his yearly Christmas card color xeroxs. These included scrapbook photos of his brothers showing the while family group drinking gallons of beer in bars year-after-year in local saloons with their wives. I saw a transformation of the family members with the photos beginning in about 1995, depicting the group as it was with dazed, perplexed looks, clouded minds, unhappy - confused even expressions, sullen palors. The brothers were shabby lookin' and very much over weight. Then came the compound. I asked Dave about how was it going, he replied it was super, just great. And sure enough the photos plainly showed the new story - the men had lost weight, gained bright, attractive, happy smiles, were wide awake, their wives more attractive, their mother doing better, despite lacking medical attention, said Dave. An amazing transition had taken place with his family, they were suddenly alive, not faltering as had been the case a few years before. It has been two years, I am not sure how things are going now...but things were great in 2002. Dave still lives in Arizona, he has not moved in with the group as of yet physically, but he still joins them on holidays in their beer drinking forays once or twice a year to the local barrios. This family's solutions to hardships in communities these days and times of transition throughout America hit me hard. I believe they have a good idea as long as their money holds out. I understand the compound is off limits to outsiders too and so the brothers have a consistent order to follow to maintain life there. This is not a cult event, these men all look obviously very much alike, they are not adoptees, they are the real brother thing, they are REAL human relatives. Their close relationships support that fact too. This is similar to the guarded mansions of recording artist-celebs in places reported in states like Arkansas and like the compounds of militia groups in Texas and Oklahoma, Montana, only this was a small family situation. SITUATION TWO: It was back in 1971, we were Hippies living on a progressive cool university campus. I was madly in love with Mark, a tall, high brow dog man who was a dreamboat. Mark was also an ace clay potter, he could spin the wheel with vessels as large as multi-gallon urns and he was only 20. We were both in art school. Mark had a dream and he told me with fervent zeal that when we all reached 60 we should pool our money and buy an big old house. There we should live together until we all died, hiring help as needed and enjoying life to the hilt with our own company, Mark felt this because of his grandmother...what he had seen regarding her care, how he loved her, what he felt we should to do to avoid being personally caged in a public facility. He figured we would do much better by taking care of each other personally after the age of 55. Judith ABR, 2004 c mfhr.org __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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