The Seekers are right now heading out to remote wilderness camps to harvest rice. We’re hoping to get a few updates from them very soon! This week we have some posts from the Rainbows and from Rose, and a few pictures in between. Here is an update from the Rainbows, and a few pictures from this past moon.

We have gotten lots of questions about why we left the clan, and when and how we would return. We did come back, and here is our truth and our voice:

We did not have problems with people. Someone at camp had to make a personal choice about their life. The Family Yearlong is a program to practice clan-living and co-parenting–we offered our way of support, but they did not want our help. We were not able to support their decision or the Family Yearlong, which was supporting this personal decision we did not agree with. We could not stand with our name behind this way, and so we left the clan.

We were told that we had to come back in order to stay in the program, and though we wanted to return to the clan, we wanted more time. We loved the time out alone in the woods as family.

Living in the clan is not easy for us. The group seems too big. We feel a lot of control, a lack of trust, pressure, and no freedom. It’s challenging us a lot to be with the clan. And we challenge the clan with our lifestyle. We are different in a lot of ways. And the question is if we will be able to be accepted as we are, and accept them, and be able to live together even though we are not the same. So we have a lot to learn and to grow.