Adventures in Relationship and Community

Resources & Links

Intentional Community

Trellis Community of Philadelphia – The intentional community my wife and I founded in 2007

Lafayette Morehouse – The intentional community that inspired Trellis and with whom we still maintain close ties.

Twin Oaks (one of the oldest and largest of the intentional communities)

Communities Conference (annual intentional communities conference hosted by Twin Oaks, in late August)

Intentional Communities Directory – A great resource for anybody interested in finding, joining or creating an IC

Federation of Egalitarian Communities – Association of income-sharing communities

Network for a New Culture (North American group which “seeks to build a sustainable, violence-free culture through exploring intimacy, personal growth, transparency, radical honesty, equality, compassion, sexual freedom, and the power of community”. They have two weeklong residential retreats a year, one in the West and one in the East near Washington DC)

Zegg Community (The original East German experimental community that inspired NFNC, who created the Zegg Forum)

Lifestyle Design

Timothy Ferriss site (author of “the 4-hour work week”). Timothy invented the term “lifestyle” design and travels the world having adventures, while working (or so he says) 4 hours a week on his nutritional supplement business. Inspiring and thought-provoking but not for the faint-of-heart. A bit obsessive on the performance/productivity angle and a bit lacking on the emotional fulfillment / quality of life issues in “Liberation” (see my own article Introduction to Lifestyle Design)

The Growing Life – Clay Collins Blog (that inspired me to create this one!). Also about liberation from “working for the man”

Technical details about this site [I am a techno-geek at heart :0) ]

This website is powered by WordPress 2.6.x, using the Atahuapa theme by BFA Web Design, using Plugins All in One SEO Pack, Google XML Sitemaps, Feedburner Feedsmith, Comment Relish and Subscribe to Comments. Email subscriptions and feed management (including access statistics) provided by amazing free service Feedburner. Access statistics provided by a Feedburner small tracker script that must be inserted into the main index.php file and the singlepost.php file in the theme editor. Google XML Sitemaps is a plugin that generates XML sitemaps, and notifies major search engines whenever new content is posted. All in One SEO pack allows very granular control over the page meta information, while providing defaults that generally work quite well.

Wordpress is the most amazing publishing platform that I have ever worked with, and the Atahuapa theme is the best one I have ever encountered, providing many configuration options including left and right column width (which can be set to zero). All I had to do was change the logo and banner and I had a super-professional site (this has never happened to me with an off-the-shelf theme). The integration between Atahuapa, All in One SEO, and Google Sitemaps is perfect. As everybody knows, search engines love blogs, to the point where I am wondering if traditional website publishing has been rendered obsolete, given the ability to distribute content through both email and RSS.

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"Enlightenment is when you realize that what was planned is a party"

-- Victor Baranco

"I would say it in this sentence: “We were made for ecstasy.” We were made for ecstasy. Every human being is made for ecstasy. And not just an occasional ecstasy, but to live on a level of everyday that life is full of thanksgiving, full of wonder, full of awe, full of good sexual loving, and full of good everything. We are made for that. We have the capacity to be joyful, happy, loving, creative people. We have the capacity to do that. That’s it. We have that possibility. Everybody wants to feel good and not just human beings but a worm wants to feel good. Everything wants to feel good. And feeling good is a transcendent state. It is not the flatland. When you are in it, in a real high mood on a Shalom Retreat, you are in an altered state of consciousness. Shalom is an altered state. My commitment in my own life is that I can live that way. Everyday. Now I don’t do it everyday, but I intend it everyday. So to learn to love is to learn to alter flatland consciousness."

-- Jerry Jud in Love is an Intention

"Describe the steps you would take, the gifts you would buy, the generosity you would bestow, the kindness you would offer, the enthusiasm you would have, the attention you would give, and anything else that appeals to you, if you were able to give yourself the things you want someone else to give to you.

NONE OF US WANTS TO GROW UP"

-- Cheri Huber

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

--Howard Thurman

"The true test of your spiritual success is the happiness of the people around you."

-- Rudi

"When Love beckons follow him, though his ways are hard and steep...if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires...to know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love...to wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."

-- Kahlil Gibran

Throw away
Your begging bowls at God’s door

For I have heard the Beloved
Prefers sweet threatening shouts,

Something on the order of:

Hey, Beloved,
My heart is a raging volcano
of love for you!

You better start kissing me –
Or else!"

-- Hafiz

"You don't need to get what you want if you can express what you want"

-- Strephon Kaplan-Williams

"The heart has its reasons that Reason knows not of."

-- Blaise Pascal