Rebuilding the Village

And one of the hardest impediments of all — the one that shakes you to your core — is realizing you don’t have a village.

That you’ve been out here doing life, fighting battles, climbing mountains, and you look around and realize there’s no true community standing beside you.

That’s when it hits you how vital a village is.
Because a healthy village gives wisdom, correction, and protection.
A real village keeps you from staying stuck in arrested development.

Without it, people grow old but not up.
They keep repeating the same broken cycles.

And that’s why I won’t stop talking about it.
Because we’ve got to bring the village back — before it’s too late.

We’ve lost the connection between generations.
We’ve lost the transfer of wisdom that used to happen naturally around kitchen tables, porches, churches, and community spaces.

Now we’ve got young people with no elders to guide them and old people who refuse to grow up or hand down what they’ve learned.

That’s why you see a 25-year-old saying, “I don’t trust nobody,” and a 55-year-old saying, “I just want no-strings-attached.”
Both are hurting. Both are lost.
And both need a village — elders who correct with love and young people humble enough to listen.

Because when the wisdom of the elders is lost, the foolishness of the old becomes the example for the young.
And that’s how dysfunction keeps reproducing itself.

When I talk about the village, I’m talking about a system of accountability, wisdom, and shared growth.
The Blueprint 31.

It’s based on Proverbs 31 — not as a religious checklist, but as a life template.
It teaches the attributes of strength, dignity, discipline, and compassion.
It’s the measure for kings and queens, for elders and mentors.

A P31 man or woman is the blueprint.
They are the resourceful ones. The disciplined ones. The wise ones who lead with example, not ego.

When they sit at the table, things happen.
Healing happens.
Correction happens.
Vision happens.

That’s the village. That’s the original system that worked — because it was built on principles, not popularity.