by Chris Schlake | Jan 15, 2022 | Uncategorized |
If you’ve ever been in therapy or studied psychology, you’ve probably bumped into something called “adjustment disorder.” Appearing in the first, 1952 edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, it’s a mental health diagnosis that’s still...
by Chris Schlake | Oct 26, 2020 | blog post, members |
OK, dear reader, (and future members!), a disclosure at the outset: the title of this blog piece? Yeah, it’s a ruse. And here’s why. We don’t really care too much about what you believe. We care more what you love. Belief has enjoyed a long run in Western culture as a...
by Chris Schlake | Nov 28, 2017 | blog post, building and planning, Featured, inspiration, Living in Community, members, see what's happening page only, Uncategorized, Village living |
After stepping, and stepping, and stepping again through the many hoops leading up to a conventional mortgage, it was finally go time. With a rush of excitement we’d held and harbored for years, we submitted the hefty block of documents to our loan officer Chad, a...
by Chris Schlake | Feb 12, 2017 | blog post, building and planning, Featured, inspiration |
Dear Fire Community, As many of you know, a number of us in the high desert of Western Colorado came together through a shared vision and stubborn longing for a way of life that enabled and encouraged a deeper connection with the land and with each other. An...
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 Chris Schlake | May 31, 2015 | Featured, Living in Community, Uncategorized |
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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,...