Was it hard to read Monday's Monday with Marley? It was for me. No paragraphs! Read this and tell me it doesn't feel better.

Developments designed as subdivisions don't work anymore.
 
Economically, this country is where it is because we've been following the same old Subdivision American Dream Development ( S.A.D.D. disease) model since the end of the Second World War. We've filled our Petri dish with the food of greed and the resulting virus is virulent, resistant to change.
 
Read the papers, listen to the radio, watch television. It's not difficult to diagnose the signs of a deep sickness in American development. The prognosis of S.A.D.D.
 
It's sad when words crowd together like so many of our subdivisions. Leaving out the separations of paragraphs is strikingly similar to suburban sprawl. There is no pause, no prose, no poetry.  
 
It's S.A.D.D. when developers crowd together ideas formed in the 40's and 50's in their subdivisions. Leaving things out like culture and meaning and purpose; suburban sprawl. Subdivision. American. Dream. Disease.  No pause, no prose, no poetry.  
 
I'm going to teach a class at the Wizard Academy in September, one of the best places on the planet to figure things out. Developers, bankers, investors, builders and maybe even architects will be invited to see why we're where we are, why and how we got here and how the heaven we're going to get ourselves out.  
 
Every generation, every 40 years, there are recurring, monumental changes in the world and its perception of itself. We're at the cusp of a generational swing, a paradigm shifting, mind blowing, world saving understanding of how we're supposed to live.  
 
There is a New Way to develop places to live. It is not to subdivide. It is not to carve up. It is to combine and marry and wed, meaning and reason and purpose in creating community. It is the Living Architecture Way.  
 
Maybe you'll join me.

Marley Porter