Before I started my year without money, I worried about what would happen if I didn’t get enough food, what would happen if someone stole my bicycle, what would happen if I got ill and what would happen if what I thought would happen didn’t happen! Given the fact that most of us are taught from the moment we are born that money – and not community – is our primary source of personal security, these concerns would generally be perfectly understandable. But one of the first, and most important, lessons I was gifted from living without money was to learn to trust again. I now firmly believe that ...

 

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