Violet

 

Violet lives in a lovely ecohouse on The Field of Dreams in The Park with her parents – both active community members. She is nearly nine years old and has been for about 10 years. Channelled by writer and performance poet Dave Till, she refuses to let him correct her spelling.

VIOLET’S 11 BESTEST TIPS FOR BEING A KID IN THE FINDHORN COMOONITY

Violets bedroom, Feeld of Dreams
Fifty is like really old and wrinkly!

Dear 50th birthday book reeder,

Violet here and I need to tell you something. The Findhorn Comoonity is like a place where adults come to live becos they has made a life choice. But then they lives here and gets into relashunships and has sex and stuff and pretty soon they got kids. And those kids didnt make no choice to come and live here – they just sort of found themselves here and if they is like me they have to find the bestest and quickest ways to make the most of it! So speshully for this book Im givin out the Violet 11 bestest rules for kids. And Im doin it for free in the spirit of service becos that is what the place was founded on and Im a big beleever in service to humanity becos Im going to be a world changer (and maybe a famous riter/directer of movies) when I grow up.

Violets 11 bestest tips for being a kid in the Findhorn Comoonity

1. Get used to bein on your own. Your parents will be out at loads of meetings so you will have loads of time to yorself right. So get with the programm!! If your folks dont let you watch too much telly then record all your faves and watch them when they is at meetings!! Its also a good time to scoff the foods what they dont let you eat usyully.

2. Get your own key to the house and dont put up with loads of babysitters if you can have some preshus time on your own getting up to mischeef. (This dont apply to ackchul babies who probably need some lookin after — tho parents often park them with peeple what really like babies but aint got none!)

3. Get yor own computer or smartphone or iPad double quick. That way you can find out what is goin on in the world of the fundation and the comoonity because everything is on emails. (You will need to log into your folks email boxes but that aint no problem if you have got at least one sneaky bone.)

4. Join the Yoof Project as soon as you can like crawl there becos it is like a travel aguncy to get to see the world. Before you know it you can be like in orphaniges in Russia and other places what aint in no travel broshures and you can get donations for your travel too!

5. Don’t nick no sweeties from the Peenix shop becos you will want to be going back there for years and you need to be in there good books (and not barred)!

6. Remember if there is a adult comoonity there is also a kid comoonity too! Get all yor frends on a email group and then you can plan sneaky stuff on yor smart phones or laptops. There is like power in numbers and you will need to compare notes about what you can get away with. Also if you is a leader like me you will find that quite a lot of kids really like being bossed about by someone who has a pretty clear idea of what they want to do (that aint never been no problem for me) so you might soon find yourself in charge. Good practice for when you grows up to be a world changer!

7. Beware the rumors what go round the kid comoonity — they is often wrong! There aint no button in a secret cubboard in the Universal Hall what flips off the roof and creates like a landing strip for aliens!

8. You live in like a major tourist destinnation so make the most out of it. Yes you has to put up with loads of visitors staring thro your windows in the summer (speshully if you live in a eco house like what I do) but you can make loads of sweetie money with a little organic leminade stand outside yor house! Also you can put a little teepee in the garden and have a sign above it what says nature spirits headquarters 2 pounds a pic and leave a honesty box there and it fills up with money!! (It is a very honest type of visitor what comes here!)

9. Get your own spirichul practice. Otherwise this place dont make no sense. If I didn’t have my own practice then I never would have thort of any of the above!! A good spirichul practice means what you start to rely on yourself and yor own intuishon. I do this all the time now (and you cant never be a world changer if you has to listen to like every single opinion all the time and then take votes and stuff!!).

10. Look at what the older kids are wearing cos pretty soon you is going to be wearing them same things. (Hand me downs is like a big deal round here.) So try to get yor folks friendly with the parents of the coolest older kids and then you might end up lookin half decent.

11. Get used to peeple changing their names. I got a frend called Treebark who was once a Nigel.

And I alreddy know a Rainbow, Stormy, Moonie, Windhorse and a Termite. Name changin is a real pain but you gets used to it after a while. If you forgets the new name you just says hiya you!

So chow for now fans. These eleven points can reely help any new kid here and save them loads of time. Unfortunatly there are always loads more lessons to learn thats why whole place is set up for people to grow by learning stuff. I do it and I’m growin all the time (129 cm and counting).