I made this Facebook post about a company called City Bonfires for multiple reasons!
— One, great example of being economically resilient as the old-economy livelihoods vanish. (They started this company after losing their jobs during the pandemic shutdowns.) “When we lost our jobs during the COVID pandemic, we spent a lot of time at home outside with our kids. We realized that we were spending more time keeping our kids away from the fire pit, instead of enjoying it. So, we invented City Bonfires, the world’s first mini portable fire pits that are safer and easy to light and extinguish!”
(Special note for my fellow elders, please stop steering your kids & grandkids into old-economy livelihoods that are supposedly “safe” — and instead start supporting them in their pursuit of meaningful, resilient, transformative livelihoods. Which are probably their best chance not only of happiness and fulfillment, but of mere survival on this planet as we have made things worse and worse for them.)
— Two, great example of promoting outdoor time, family time, community bonding. Every moment we spend outdoors is an opportunity for quality family time, community-building time. This has a safety and security component as well as the enjoyment aspect.
— Three, modeling cozy contentment and simple pleasures.
— Four, I want to remember this page because some of my geographically distant loved ones might need some cute gifts from me
I’ve been mentioning on my blog for a while the concept of a candle as a portable mini urban campfire. Totally love this!
Here is their website. https://citybonfires.com/pages/about-city-bonfires