On life-long friendship

A small little pink Piglet once wondered along next to his much taller, bear-shaped friend Winnie the Pooh. “We’ll be friends forever, won’t we Pooh?” he asked. “Even longer,” Pooh replied.

A real life example of a Piglet and Pooh friendship is the story of four couples, who have been best friends for 20 years, and who wanted to ensure they’d always have a place where they could escape everyday life and holiday together, especially as they got older.

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How to be an effective leader

John Quincy Adams, the 6th President of the United States of America wrote, “When your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more - then you are a leader.”

Leadership is one of the most empowering and important traits you can possess and anyone can be a leader. But what does it take to be a strong and effective leader?

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Creating an organic, self-sustaining urban “agrihood:”

In 2016, an urban neighbourhood in Detroit set up America’s first organic, self-sustainable neighbourhood, providing fresh and healthy, homegrown food for the community. The garden is two acres in size and grows over 300 organic varieties of vegetables, from chromatic orange carrots to zesty green spinach. Alongside this, it has an orchard of 200 fruit trees, including magenta coloured plums, blooming red cherries and juicy pears. From this vast array of earth’s treats, 2000 homes in the area, as well as local restaurants and markets are provided with fresh produce each season.

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Coliving; the new way to create an artwork of connections

The Holstee Manifesto writes “Life is all about the people you meet and the things you create with them, so go out and start creating.”

First we had coworking, now coliving has evolved out of the human desire to create better social networks and nurture more fulfilling personal relationships. It is a place where everyone is treated as unique, with great skills and attributes they can bring to the community table.


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What does ‘coliving’ actually mean?

The concept of coliving is inspiring, exciting and to many unknown. If anything, the concept is still developing and as it grows to become more mainstream next to its sister idea of coworking, there needs to be greater encouragement of understanding what coliving can offer.

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Samantha Mythen