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At age 19, in a village on Kolombungara, a remote island of the Solomon Islands, where everyone comfortably wore bare feet all the time, I witnessed a community come together and construct a beautiful little dwelling, using only materials from the jungle in a spectacular fun way that incorporated singing and sharing food. Various plants, grasses and leaves were tightly tied and woven together to create a very attractive, cozy, ornate, insect proof home that was perfect in its own way. The process was very memorable. At any one time, the audience outnumbered those engaged in building activities by about 10 to 1. Everyone from toddlers to seniors was there. Frolicking children were highly engaged and integral to the magic created. Lots of freshly prepared food was shared, and when everyone sang together, they produced heavenly soulful harmonies that were out of this world. Can you imagine seeing a house sung into existence, with fun? Can you imagine the effect that would have on a 19- year-old seeker? I saw proof of what I instinctively already knew was out there somewhere - a better way, and I got validation on why I went there in the first place- to find it (the better way. 
Where does such a generous and playful attitude towards shelter and its creation come from? Children show us that playfulness and fun are innate human traits, and I saw that the Solomon Islanders were very intentional about retaining these traits through adulthood. And therein lies the essence of their formula for using the shelter creation process as a source of education, recreation and rejuvenation. Playfulness can turn a need into a knead that feeds. Fun is ready right now to massage and squeeze a whole lotta goodness outta nothing and it can provide us everything we need from what we already have.

The Solomon Islands

Fun is a special kind of currency that blurs the lines between the giver and receiver. And it's contagious; it spreads between us. Fun needs people to spread between. It cant exist by itself. It's very easy to recognise; you know it when you see it and you certainly know it when you feel it, but if you were to try to objectively and rationally define exactly what it is, where it comes from and why, that would not be as easy. Being able to generate fun and play from the creation of food and shelter is a great accomplishment and I hereby wish to pay my respects to all of our ancestors past and present who have had anything to do with this equation. This forms the basis for this manuscript.
In modern industrialised society everyone has specialist skills and perhaps the price we have paid is that we’ve foregone a lot of singing and dancing and forgotten our most basic, general fun, food and shelter creation skills and become highly dependent on a system that we cant always count on. Modern conveniences come at a cost which can leave many feeling vulnerable.
I can imagine that in the beginning the idea of modern specialisation could have sounded good but it would have been difficult to imagine the costs that we now know as real. The reason we may have been so willing to give specialisation and mass production a go is because we never could have imagined that we would stop singing and dancing and that somehow we would also forget how to create our own food and shelter. It would have been impossible to imagine that we could have possibly forgotten how to have fun without money. And while not all of us have completely forgotten, it’s obvious now that our lives of modern conveniences come with a hefty price that is rising. 
The basis of this manuscript is putting forward a case for firstly ensuring we know a few things about creating fun, food and shelter as a team, by ourselves, without a corporation or one of their products, as a foundation upon which to build other skill…

Just as an aside, I am working on several book projects currently (I’ve never been able to limit myself to just one thing), and one of the projects is a reworking of a financial book my Dad wrote and never managed to publish. I’m rewriting it in my own words, and I was listening to someone, can’t remember who now, that said even non-fiction books should implement the rules of great storytelling to make the whole thing hang together and be more compelling to read. With that in mind, I asked Claude to apply the Hero’s journey to my outline, and this is what it came up with. I probably won’t stick with it, but it gives me a framework within which to construct the story of delivering the, pretty dry, financial information. I’ve attached some image so you can see what I mean…

Ok I see. Wow. It’s like the maths and science infrastructure behind the poetry. I just put all the contents of my book in a private message following meta’s personal advice that he crafted in a video just for me.
i wrote all that stuff during Covid so some of it is dated and I can see that it could use some reworking to make it more digestible - piecemeal - simplified.