Spend A Week At My Place

NikiAnne Feinberg — Sat, 29 May 2021 18:01:44 +0000

We will play, we will tour, we will work, we will talk, we will learn, we will connect, we will grow.

If you’ve been thinking of visiting or moving or emulating or experiencing Earthaven Ecovillage, now is your chance.

You will experience many aspects of our imperfect but valiant attempts at regenerative systems. And you’ll meet people, animals, plants, fireflies, businesses, and farms.

All the deets are here.

Whether or not you come here, let me tell you about place. Place, I have come to understand, is sacred. Here’s what one of my favorite writers, Barry Lopez author of Arctic Dreams (1986), for which he won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, has to say about place:

When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention.

To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation.
To stay in one place, to make that one long observation a fully dilated experience.
To give the land credit for more than we imagine.

In these ways we begin to find a home, to sense how to fit a place.

To me, a long observation is my aspiration. I hope that by living a place-based life, I can make that observation into a relationship.

Wherever you are right now, that place is sacred. May you begin or continue the intelligent conversation.

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