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 Heidi Griswold | Jan 13, 2021 | blog post, Ceremonies, Uncategorized |
The Winter Solstice Ritual has left me with a feeling of warmth, hope, connection and wise guidance. Connection to my fellow community members and the common journey of being human. Guidance on how to move forward with life, grounded in the generous wisdom spoken by...
by Heidi Griswold | Apr 30, 2019 | Uncategorized |
Sacred Fire Foundation brings Elders of the Colorado Plateau to share in Voices of Wisdom in Palisade, CO, (near Grand Junction) on Saturday and Sunday, May 25 and 26th. Elders Dianna WhiteDove Uqualla, a Havasupai who lives in the deep Grand Canyon, and Vernon...
by Heidi Griswold | Mar 6, 2019 | Uncategorized |
Deanna Jenné’s article entitled “Thirteen Teachings From the Desert” was published in this edition of E.P.I.C. magazine (Empowering People Inspiring Community). A beautiful article about finding home… ~click title below to read~ Thirteen...
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 | 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 | 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 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 |
Read the full MLP May Newsletter here.
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...
