Charles

“Existentialism is no mournful delectation but a humanist philosophy of action, effort, combat, and solidarity. Man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines say what this man is before he dies, or what mankind is before it has disappeared.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, We Have Only This Life to Live: The Selected Essays of Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939-1975

“cohousing can be understood as a wealth-creation strategy that allows people to develop affordable housing enriched with an abundance of social capital.”
― Charles Durrett, The Senior Cohousing Handbook: A Community Approach to Independent Living

“The wondrous power of a drug is to offer the addict protection from pain while at the same time enabling her to engage the world with excitement and meaning. “It’s not that my senses are dulled—no, they open, expanded,” explained a young woman whose substances of choice are cocaine and marijuana. “But the anxiety is removed, and the nagging guilt and—yeah!” The drug restores to the addict the childhood vivacity she suppressed long ago.”
― Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

“Real wealth is derived from a blend of financial and social capital. Social capital? While it is vital to our everyday lives (and happiness), the concept of social capital remains something of a mystery to most Americans.”
― Charles Durrett, The Senior Cohousing Handbook: A Community Approach to Independent Living