Once a Vision for a Community has arisen, then your Hope for a Harvest is well underway!
Discover this on the Home Page with its links.
Trek and Build Menu pick up from there.
Your vision might embrace emerging green technologies to better society while merging ancient pathways with innovation. It might connect Indigenous and tribal wisdom, honed over the centuries, with today’s activities. We need to learn that new can embrace old to form wisdom and treasures for the common good.
We jettison the old to our future dismay.
Your Harvest might be a retreat center that reaches deep into humanitarian, education-research, medical and healing endeavors.
You do organic gardens and permaculture with zeal and add regenerative agriculture “spices” into the blender of your strategic thoughts.
It might be a way of inclusion that will benefit single parents or those with little in the way of family.
It might be a fishing and hunting camp or an RV camp where you express Community.
Those in a chair also have feelings and yearnings for freedom … for any of us can run into unexpected challenges in life.
Life and mobility are fragile….
It might be a group of organic farmers that work together and supply healthy veggies for those shopping at a farmer’s market.
You might be a Millennial. Fed up with the city and wanting to hang out in the country. Or Gen-Z looking for something that is real and without layers and layers of you-know-what (it comes out of the discharge port of bulls—you don’t want to step in it).
You might be an escapee from The Official Urban Smog System and simply want a better life in the country.
Perhaps you want to form a Community that lives in converted vans and wants to go mobile. But that’s not for everyone….
Yes … already on the stove on simmer …
You might be an urban or regional planner reflecting on future trends and needs.
Or you are someone who wants to make a difference. You want to offer a future legacy to help humanity. You want your life to have meaning and purpose. Without deathbed regrets.
Whatever your motivation, may we suggest a small sampling of a few Concept Model “word sketches”? We did these just for fun as a sketch.
“Those Decision-Makers are just itching to read the last chapter first. It’s that Bottom-line thing.
I just knew it … I sensed it in the last bone I chewed.
Sigh … there are always spoilers when I am only partway through the Home. And my bone.
So many bones to chew. So little time….”
— Muttlee
Click for a very brief fireside chat for quieter folks.
Folks who prefer quiet places for dining and getaways.
Muttlee likes his quiet place by the fireplace.
Heads up: We aren’t looking for money.
Yes—it’s the title of a great book as well. But we must not forget the lessons of small.
Bees pollinate plants we rely on.
The humble ladybug enjoys fine dining on aphids.
How does small impact Community?
When we neglect love, mercy and care towards others “not quite like us,” we have failed our neighbor.
That principle applies to the disabled, elderly and those in poverty. But that’s only a few on the list. We can find weeping on the streets and in slums. In mansions and boardrooms, and in prisons, hospitals and care homes. Those who have known loss of loved ones, or never had someone to love them without conditions, know this all too well.
Unseen tears fall from the food server while others feast. Frontline service and health workers stumble in the snow, walking to work, while luxury cars pass by headed to underground parking. The bitter cold of the lonely aged gaze out windows and count snowflakes.
When we depend on non-profits and government to solve suffering, we are without excuse. We have become part of the problem.
When our spirituality, religion, thinking or philosophy means we can’t help others, something is wrong. When the disadvantaged can’t afford a blanket or to pay for heating and to put healthy food on the table, something is very wrong in our world.
We spend far too much on fancy buildings for “whatever” (and the Grand Poobahs of life) when folks can’t get the basics of life.
Meeting of the Big Cheeses
We aren’t against profit-making endeavor. We encourage entrepreneurial activity.
We are against a failure to share the bounty of wealth and success.
Too often, we haven’t loved our neighbor as ourselves. We have forgotten The Golden Rule: to do unto others as you would want done to you. It’s not a complicated rule!
That also includes that hard-working server at the restaurant. It’s not the server’s fault if the cook put 25 hot peppers in your “mild” dish (oops).
NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) community is the trumpeting voice of failure. Our failure to seek creative solutions is our eternal shame.
We must fix this.
We owe it to our neighbors. And who are our neighbors?
We see them in our daily lives. Even when we walk on the other side of the street to avoid them.
They are there for a reason.
Community must embrace others.
Or it isn’t Community.
It’s a counterfeit or a use of the word, “community,” without a deepened understanding of what true Community is about.
Yes, we are VERY concerned about Climate Change and the impacts on Community.
