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 Deanna Jenné | Sep 9, 2016 | blog post, building and planning, Events, Fire, Living in Community, see what's happening page only, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Village living |
“Ovens and bread exemplify how simple connections to land and food …can heal many ills.” Alan Scott, Oatlands, Tasmania Community bake houses have been a part of Villages over the Ages. Historically they were called the hearth, the center of a...
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,...
