by Deanna Jenné | Apr 14, 2019 | Ceremonies, Events, Featured |
Every day the sun rises and the sun sets. The sky presses down upon us as we live out life on earth. Once a year, we human people gather to remember how life got to be this way. We don’t remember this as humans. We remember as the first peoples: the animals and...
by Deanna Jenné | Aug 15, 2018 | blog post, Featured, Fire, inspiration, Living in Community, The Natural World, Village living |
Many of our friends in Sacred Fire Community as well as family and our local community responded to my call for prayers for the winds to calm and the fire fighters to be safe, for the land of MLP not be taken by wild fire and that the Grand Mesa be spared from losing...
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 Heidi Griswold | Jun 20, 2017 | blog post, Events, Featured, Fire, inspiration, see what's happening page only |
Would you like the authentic knowing of your heart to be your guide? How do you know if your dreams are aligned with your heart and true purpose? Many “dreams” are simply desires, born of a sense of lack, and will not create true fulfilment, even if realized. It is in...
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 Deanna Jenné | Oct 29, 2016 | blog post, Featured, inspiration, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Village living |
You must first work with the Spiritual matters to support all your other concerns. That is the way to sustainability. ~ Grandfather Fire Sustainability to most people means maintaining their current lifestyle. It’s a “recycling word” within the system in which one...
by Deanna Jenné | Jul 19, 2016 | blog post, Featured, see what's happening page only, Uncategorized |
What was years of working out the bureaucratic legal issues of a road easement with a local rancher who’s family has lived here for 100 years, the public lands held by the Bureau of Land Management and with our property’s title insurance company, the...
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 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...
