by Kathy German | May 4, 2016 | members |
Kathy is the mother of her son Justin, born in 1995. He is the best experience in life that she will ever have the blessing to know and experience in this lifetime. Experiencing Justin’s birth into the world, seeing his growth and learning as a child, and...
by Deanna Jenné | May 4, 2016 | members |
Deanna Jenné is first mother to Katie and wife to Gary Weidner. Deanna has put her heart and soul into raising Katie with values she adheres to, being a supporter of community and working hard and with integrity for what she believes in. She has spent many years to...
by Chris Schlake | Dec 14, 2015 | Featured, Living in Community, Uncategorized |
I think I might be done with community. No, I don’t mean that I’m leaving the Mesa Life Project, but the word and image and idea of community that haunts and compels me may really be, after all, the wrong quarry. It may be that this ideal—cunning and elusive as any...
by Heidi Griswold | Aug 9, 2015 | members |
I was blessed as a child to grow up and see so many amazing places and cultures. My father grew up on the Navajo reservation where my extended family still runs a trading post. My mother is from Germany, the Bavarian town of Nurnberg where I got to visit often as a...
by Chris Schlake | May 31, 2015 | Featured, Living in Community, Uncategorized |
Read the full MLP May Newsletter here.
by Chris Schlake | Feb 21, 2015 | Featured, inspiration, Living in Community |
“We’ve got to go someplace, find something.” Jack Kerouac So says narrator Sal Paradise, speeding down a country road in Dean Moriarity’s ’49 Hudson, up the Eastern seaboard. A haunting little line that shadows the whole of Kerouac’s On the Road, it...
by Chris Schlake | Feb 5, 2015 | blog post, inspiration, Living in Community, Uncategorized, Village living |
it’s a misnomer, of course—or at least redundant—to distinguish ourselves as “land-based”: even space stations are land-based in that every molecule of their construction is mined, synthesized and assembled from some type of earth. Every community is land-based—as in,...
by Gary Weidner | Jan 21, 2015 | Featured, Uncategorized, Village living |
Why would an individual or family want to join like-minded others in a planned living arrangement? Community living offers connection and support: human essentials growing scarce in the single family model so prominent today. Community is the ideal setting for shared...
by Deanna Jenné | Mar 31, 2013 | Events, inspiration, Sustainability, The Natural World, Uncategorized, Village living |
A Symposium and Workshops to Connect to Our Life-Giving Waters April 20 – 21, 2013 Grand Junction, CO Presented by Full Circle Living Initiative of the Grand Valley As a special, finite gift, Water deserves gratitude and attention. Water Comes First will be a...
by Gary Weidner | Oct 27, 2012 | The Natural World, Village living |
As the days shorten and the nights grow longer I feel the need to pause for a minute to recognize the perpetual light in my life. The Sun has made a profound impact on my life this year. Personally, I have begun to align myself with daily prayer to the Sun for the...
