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 | 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 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...
by Gary Weidner | Oct 27, 2012 | The Natural World, Village living |
As the days shorten and the nights grow longer I feel the need to pause for a minute to recognize the perpetual light in my life. The Sun has made a profound impact on my life this year. Personally, I have begun to align myself with daily prayer to the Sun for the...
