I am back in Kingston — I drove up at night to avoid the traffic, from the PA Pike the the Jersey Pike to the Garden State Parkway to the NYS Thruway in under three hours. Those big interstates are awesome at night.
Poly Living 2010 was one of the best Loving More conferences I’ve been to in a long time. There was lots of young energy — a whole contingent from Minneapolis, connected with the Modern Poly website, flew in, after creating a fund raising campaign to get themselves there. The difference in tone was palpable, at a conference where half the crowd is 50ish plus. These young adventurers have a lot of ideas and energy, they are super organized, they understand technology and they are ready to go. They have ideas like putting together a wiki of every poly thing in the world; they are doing precisely that, among other projects.
We had a truly talented host of presenters, who put months of work into their presentations and whose ideas reflect not just advocacy but an evolving view of relationships and how to teach about relationships. The community as an entity seemed to understand that it was there to refine its ideas, strengthen its connections, and then return to our communities to continue the conversation.
To those who have been following my coverage of the conference, I’ve withdrawn two of my stories.