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THANKSHARING LCRG
Intentional Community
--Cornerstones: Love Gratitude Respect Creation
Located on 7 acres of clear land on the banks of the Brazos River, midway between Houston and Austin. There are various routes that may be taken to get there, which is beneficial visitor accessabililty. It’s on my parents land; there are two houses on it—theirs and ours.
The resident community shall be between 5-10 people, max 15; these individuals live and preferably work on-site. Income is brought in through:
--Just Breathe Tees and Tags t-shirt and sticker co.
--production & sale of practice fire toys and hula hoops
--weekend retreats, workshops, & classes
--camping
--laughter therapy retreats!
--open to more ideas of stuff we may produce and sell either directly or online
This core group will together share the responsibility of maintaining the gardens, and caring for the chickens, as well as various duties such as cooking, cleaning of shared areas, etc.
Thanksharing is open for individuals and groups to visit, be it for a weekend, or a few months. All guests are welcome to stay in exchange for labor, and/or contributions of food, building materials, or money. (That means help with gardens, maintenance, and building!)
Everyone is expected to live and work cooperatively, maintaining open hearts and open minds, in a state of Love, Gratitude, Respect, and Creation. No other rules are necessary.
Classes will range from how to make skin-care products at home to poi and hooping, gardening, kombucha and cheese making, various art, and yoga, etc; classes will vary according to what skills are available to be shared.
Upon the land we shall establish organic gardens for our own sustainability, as well as fruit and nut trees. Currently there are peach, pear, and pecan trees all doing very well on the land.
We shall also build various structures using Green architecture and methods, so that we may show different examples of ways that we may live—also will serve as sleeping quarters for residents and guests.
There is a main house already established with kitchen, 2 1/2 baths, 3 bedrooms, and a back work room. More work spaces may be built as needed.
We shall build both a sweat lodge and a moon lodge, and a sweet fire pit to heat up the rocks.
We will eventually go off-grid, gathering our electricity through solar, wind, and water (the Brazos has mad strong currents, perfect for generating elec).
Thanksharing is an excellent space for artists to get away from the city, breathe in clean air, and work on various projects in a peaceful, open environment.
Thanksharing is also a bridge in between our community (who already understand what it is to live respectfully, lovingly, with absolute gratitude, and creating for the sheer joy of creation), and those who have no clue what that feels like. It’s a bridge between our Austin and Houston community, as well.
By creating a sacred space where we may share with each other safely, we create a space for others to come and experience our community, and perhaps inspire them to change their perceptions and reality—and cultivate infectious joy!
My goal is to create a place where we can share together, enjoying our community, learning from each other, nourishing our bodies with yummy food that we grow ourselves, and working together on various projects, always creating (and sometimes destroying!), and overall, HAVING A BLAST IN THE PROCESS! And then share this with others, so they understand how it feels, so they may perhaps feel inspired to create similar sacred spaces themselves, or whatever.
It may also be a home base for those of us who want to travel around the country or the world, a place to come to that you know is always home, and will always be there to welcome you.
I would love to set up some kind of exchange between other intentional communities and ours so we may share our knowledge, skills, and talents with our global community, and be able to travel and have even more fun!
This is my basic dream.
We can take our time, and start out small, building a few structures, planting smaller gardens initially, and planting trees. Because the land is located 1.5 hrs from Houston, and 2 hrs from Austin, it’s not so far that folks may come out for a weekend or a week (if possible) to help out, and have some fun at the same time. There are also the surrounding small towns of Hempstead, Bellville, Sealy, Brookshire, and Brenham, 12 – 30 miles away, respectively, for outside work. There are actually quite a few wealthy families in these small towns—artists, sell your skills and wares.
Eventually, I would love for the place to be sustainable and completely off-grid, hopefully by 2012 or 2013. That gives us 4 – 5 years; with the amazing talents and skills of our community, I feel that this may be accomplished.
So—who’s on board? I can’t do this without my community, nor would I want to. I need my family to share this with! Otherwise it’s just no fun without y’all.
I should be returning to Texas in February; I would love to set up a weekend that we may gather, so y’all can get a look at the land, and we may organize this vision together.
Bring tents to camp out in; my dad has a large grill and smoker for barbecuing, more grills are handy too, but probably not necessary. Coolers a must, because there’s only one fridge at the house for cold storage.
I understand that with Flipside coming up in May, it may be difficult for folks working on theme camps to come out, but you could always bring relatively smaller Flipside related projects with y’all that we may all help out with.
Some weekend towards the end of Feb or the beginning of March would be great—you all will help me figure out when by letting me know what weekend(s) would be best for y’all, and I’ll settle on the weekend that the majority of those interested may be able to make it out to.
Intentional Community
--Cornerstones: Love Gratitude Respect Creation
Located on 7 acres of clear land on the banks of the Brazos River, midway between Houston and Austin. There are various routes that may be taken to get there, which is beneficial visitor accessabililty. It’s on my parents land; there are two houses on it—theirs and ours.
The resident community shall be between 5-10 people, max 15; these individuals live and preferably work on-site. Income is brought in through:
--Just Breathe Tees and Tags t-shirt and sticker co.
--production & sale of practice fire toys and hula hoops
--weekend retreats, workshops, & classes
--camping
--laughter therapy retreats!
--open to more ideas of stuff we may produce and sell either directly or online
This core group will together share the responsibility of maintaining the gardens, and caring for the chickens, as well as various duties such as cooking, cleaning of shared areas, etc.
Thanksharing is open for individuals and groups to visit, be it for a weekend, or a few months. All guests are welcome to stay in exchange for labor, and/or contributions of food, building materials, or money. (That means help with gardens, maintenance, and building!)
Everyone is expected to live and work cooperatively, maintaining open hearts and open minds, in a state of Love, Gratitude, Respect, and Creation. No other rules are necessary.
Classes will range from how to make skin-care products at home to poi and hooping, gardening, kombucha and cheese making, various art, and yoga, etc; classes will vary according to what skills are available to be shared.
Upon the land we shall establish organic gardens for our own sustainability, as well as fruit and nut trees. Currently there are peach, pear, and pecan trees all doing very well on the land.
We shall also build various structures using Green architecture and methods, so that we may show different examples of ways that we may live—also will serve as sleeping quarters for residents and guests.
There is a main house already established with kitchen, 2 1/2 baths, 3 bedrooms, and a back work room. More work spaces may be built as needed.
We shall build both a sweat lodge and a moon lodge, and a sweet fire pit to heat up the rocks.
We will eventually go off-grid, gathering our electricity through solar, wind, and water (the Brazos has mad strong currents, perfect for generating elec).
Thanksharing is an excellent space for artists to get away from the city, breathe in clean air, and work on various projects in a peaceful, open environment.
Thanksharing is also a bridge in between our community (who already understand what it is to live respectfully, lovingly, with absolute gratitude, and creating for the sheer joy of creation), and those who have no clue what that feels like. It’s a bridge between our Austin and Houston community, as well.
By creating a sacred space where we may share with each other safely, we create a space for others to come and experience our community, and perhaps inspire them to change their perceptions and reality—and cultivate infectious joy!
My goal is to create a place where we can share together, enjoying our community, learning from each other, nourishing our bodies with yummy food that we grow ourselves, and working together on various projects, always creating (and sometimes destroying!), and overall, HAVING A BLAST IN THE PROCESS! And then share this with others, so they understand how it feels, so they may perhaps feel inspired to create similar sacred spaces themselves, or whatever.
It may also be a home base for those of us who want to travel around the country or the world, a place to come to that you know is always home, and will always be there to welcome you.
I would love to set up some kind of exchange between other intentional communities and ours so we may share our knowledge, skills, and talents with our global community, and be able to travel and have even more fun!
This is my basic dream.
We can take our time, and start out small, building a few structures, planting smaller gardens initially, and planting trees. Because the land is located 1.5 hrs from Houston, and 2 hrs from Austin, it’s not so far that folks may come out for a weekend or a week (if possible) to help out, and have some fun at the same time. There are also the surrounding small towns of Hempstead, Bellville, Sealy, Brookshire, and Brenham, 12 – 30 miles away, respectively, for outside work. There are actually quite a few wealthy families in these small towns—artists, sell your skills and wares.
Eventually, I would love for the place to be sustainable and completely off-grid, hopefully by 2012 or 2013. That gives us 4 – 5 years; with the amazing talents and skills of our community, I feel that this may be accomplished.
So—who’s on board? I can’t do this without my community, nor would I want to. I need my family to share this with! Otherwise it’s just no fun without y’all.
I should be returning to Texas in February; I would love to set up a weekend that we may gather, so y’all can get a look at the land, and we may organize this vision together.
Bring tents to camp out in; my dad has a large grill and smoker for barbecuing, more grills are handy too, but probably not necessary. Coolers a must, because there’s only one fridge at the house for cold storage.
I understand that with Flipside coming up in May, it may be difficult for folks working on theme camps to come out, but you could always bring relatively smaller Flipside related projects with y’all that we may all help out with.
Some weekend towards the end of Feb or the beginning of March would be great—you all will help me figure out when by letting me know what weekend(s) would be best for y’all, and I’ll settle on the weekend that the majority of those interested may be able to make it out to.
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