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Hello!
Thank you Ted for doing the blog thang! Thank you Nell for having us last eve. Now we get to type!
One of the things we can envision is how we want to participate in growing, and helping each other to do that. In a way, Ted mentioned that last night when he said that not only are we thinking of how we are to be connecting in a community, but how we want to think of others in the future connecting to this community, versus another. What do we want to share with the world? How is our living together important for future generations? What does this mean and what does it look like? This may be a real stretch for some of us. However, it stands to reason that we have not thought much about how we have impacted the earth and each other... and now we hope it isn't too late to change this... and fast!
Whenever anyone wants to go walk around at So. Village to have a look, I'd be happy to go with you. Do we have permission to do this without reporting to or asking someone? I'm up for a picnic when the weather is dry again.
As the saying goes "Change is inevitable; growth is optional." I want to be participating with others to make these changes and learning and growing WITH them.
Love, Martha - April 21, 2009 2:38 PM
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Thank you Martha for starting the discussion! Keep an eye out for summaries of our meetings. Jill will be posting a summary of the last meeting at my house and I will post a summary of the meeting that Jill, Lynette and I had last Friday.
And yes, a picnic is in the plans.
Love,
Nell
Sunday, April 26, 2009
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Hello everyone!
ReplyDeleteWe had a second meeting on April 20, 2009 with 15 people attending. After singing a round of Jubilate Deo, each of us shared our visions, hopes, fears about this Aspiring Community of ours.
Themes included sustainable, simple living; a balance of privacy, quiet and community; beauty, nourishing spaces; gardens, ponds, trails.
We talked about a higher purpose: what can this community serve that is bigger than us? We acknowledged the challenge of creating something for an unknown future; what will we want then?
Larry shared, "Our commonality nourishes us."
Kathy asked, "What is bringing us together? Is our contribution the next good thing? Can we remake how we live?
Nell reminded us that we are making two transitions: into an environmentally sound lifestyle and into 'ageing with support'.
The visions we have seem to fit well into South Village, already designed as an 'earth conscious community'. However, we reminded ourselves that while South Village is one very good option, there may be other options for us as well.
We formed a group of 3 to take us to our next steps: Nell Coogan, Lynette Raap and Jill Wolcott.
For more specifics about the meeting, check your emails!
With much gratitude for our time together,
Jill
I shared this from The Findhorn Garden at our April 20 meeting:
ReplyDelete“As we increasingly recognize the need to recreate balance in the environment of our planet, we are called upon to create a commensurate balance in our inner environment. Our physical bodies, our emotions, intellect and spirit all seek to contribute to the harmony and wholeness of our being. To deny one aspect for the sake of another is to create inbalance. To heal the Earth, which is our greater body, we must create an ecological balance within as well as without. We do so by recognizing that the basis of life is interrelationship.” (1975)