A 20-Year-Dream + Scandinavian Adventure
Thank you for sharing in the joy of loving humanity.
You are joined in the purpose for which we exist at Leaning into Light. The contents of our monthly newsletter are personal, a salute to feelings, the heart, and the rigor of the human experience, intent to shine a light on the beauty of the human spirit. In short, we exist to love humanity.
Sometimes we see great beauty in the dark, in our longing.
Over the past 4 years I have witnessed a collective longing for living "Village." Could be sharing land with friends, could be co-housing, could be something more or less or else.
Quirks and tweaks aside, Village is a way of living that brings women, men and children together, cooking, celebrating and eating, bike sheds and tool sheds, music, play, collaboration, efficiency and support, upholding each other as a priority instead of living for some thing called the economy that's not serving most people anyway. Making life less mundane and more life-full.
Craving more Village in our lives last summer, we participated in a local dinner co-op where families create a group and take turns cooking. Village is different things for different people, yet there are often shared attributes and values.
Do you long for living more of a Village way?
Repeatedly, the way of Village presents itself to us as a lighthouse of living possibility. Here's a piece I wrote called Village, Our Loss, Our Longing, originally published Dec 2016 in New Zealand's The Natural Parent magazine.
