We're going to meet in the Chat room This Tuesday and discuss the "Community of IshThink" See you there!

I'd like to share my personal "What it took to get here" story so that others might find use or hope or inspiration.

I currently live in an Intentional Community. If I was the same person with the same mindset and emotional patterns and the same job as the guy 5 years ago, I never would have "seen" that a place like this existed. So how did I get here?

All right peoples.

Here's a vid. it looked prety cool. they squee on Ingwe's life a little bit, and say that we are 'too separated' from nature.

but, anyway, six week course on wilderness skills so you can go back to your community and teach the kiddies and the adulties about the outdoors.

In September some fellow business owners, local crafts-folk and I started a small arts and crafts market on South Street, three blocks down from Meadowlark.

The whole idea behind this is to support the arts and crafts community and connect the community at large. With the new plaza built this summer it was a perfect commons area for us to come together.

The main difficulty I'm having in finding/making a tribe is proximity.  Though I know a few people in "real life" who share my values, we're very spread out geographically.  One lives approx 30 miles away, another recently moved 150 miles away.   

Starting and Sustaining Healthy Ecovillages and Intentional Communities

Saturday, October 13 9:00am - 5:00pm
Greenwood Senior Center (map & directions)
525 N. 85th St., Seattle, WA 98103

"Finding Community" - Community Seeker's Fair

Friday, October 12 @ 7:30pm
Greenwood Senior Center (map & directions)
525 N. 85th St., Seattle, WA 98103
Cost: You decide - by donation
(info will continue to be posted here as available)

Charlie (bbbleaver) and I just got together with our significant others and had our first Puget Sound Ish Group meeting today! We had a wonderful brunch of fritattas, fresh strawberries, banana nectarine smoothies, organic hot cocoa and rosemary bread, at their home. A friend of theirs from the Atlanta Ish Group happened to be staying with them and joined us as well. We're going to start meeting every two weeks to share good conversation and good food, establishing a local community of people with a shared common vision.

Welcome to Ten Thousand Ways!

Ten Thousand Ways seeks to organize gatherings where tribal-minded people from up and down the Pacific Coast come together to share ideas, make plans, and network. Many of us have read the books of Daniel Quinn (Ishmael, Story of B, My Ishmael), studied deep ecology and animism or feel a strong tie to the land around us. However, coming to our event requires none of this; just arrive with an open mind!

The mother of my heart passed away this week.

I suppose I could use terms like "mother-in-law." I could further compound it by using the proper term "stepmother-in-law." Or I could confuse it by telling you what I always called her -- Mom.