Our land would be paid for by governments, insurance companies, toxic chemical manufacturers, corrupt researchers, and anyone who has ever said "it's psychosomatic," "you need to push through the fatigue", or "you just think you're tired."
Each entrance to our land has a sign to set the mood for visitors or new residents. "Welcome to our world, where we focus on us, not ME."
Citizens have their preferred landscapes so the city is located at a balance point of mountain, prairie, and sea. Every room has an excellent view but also features blackout blinds for sleeping or to aid people with light sensitivities.
Every residence is customized for, and by, the occupants. Flexible design accommodates changing needs without having to change residence. Professional care, physical support, and counseling is available for all who need it.
A pristine palace provides a safe space for those with chemical sensitivities. Every surface is easily cleaned but warm and comforting. This is a world within our world. Airlocks provide access, with showers, changing areas, and sanitized clothing for visitors. Fragrances and anything of an industrial chemical nature is treated as a bio-hazard.
Spouses, willing family members, and true friends work on site in their chosen occupations. Due to generous funding all occupations are part time so loved-ones can spend time with each other, develop and grow together, and live to work instead of work to live.
Daily excursions to various areas are provided for those who are capable of traveling. These trips may be as simple as being transported to a quiet field to spend the day alone watching the wind play in the grass, or something more active like visiting an arts festival on the sea-shore with fellow citizens.
Many interests are accommodated. Theatre performances, movies, night-clubs (for the moderately ill), cafés, spaces for simple or complex gatherings, skill development, libraries both physical and digital, telescopes for earth and sky-gazing.
Quiet spaces abound. Gardens with alcoves and sheltered places for solitary contemplation; winding paths with frequent resting areas integrated into the landscape; lakes, pools, and streams.
Canals allow the bed-bound to float around the city and visit their friends, see the sky, and enjoy fresh air. For the motion sensitive, motorized beds creep slowly along, allowing the occupants to travel without distress.
Medical support is entirely on-site. There is no struggling to see a doctor. All medical care is provided by specially trained doctors that are not only experts in our conditions but are also selected for high levels of empathy and compassion.
A researcher and librarian regularly talks to people and catalogs what treatments have worked for them, and what hasn't. This information is compiled, regularly updated and made available to residents on an ongoing basis. Data-mining and statistical analysis is used to look for patterns in responses. Research projects are developed with patient input and participation.
All employees have been carefully filtered according to empathy testing. Anyone who doesn't have a high EQ would have to avoid contact with the community at large until they've developed a proper sense of empathy and compassion. Empathy training is available for all people who want to grow and become better, more emotionally mature people.
This land is our land. A place for those who are just starting with this illness, and for the worn and weary who have suffered long and hard. A place to help us cope and be stronger than the sum of our parts until a new day dawns and a cure is found.
IMG_8357
