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 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 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...