Life Cycle of that Rare Maryland Species, the Woodland Folding Chair
For new HCD readers: I often forage the woods of Heathcote Community picking up trash, some of it decades old, left behind by, hmm…I’m going to say well meaning hippies who have smoked something that makes them think plastic has nutritional value for squirrels and other woodland creatures. This folding chair is my all time favorite find. It was just sitting there, rusted out, deep in the woods. It’s become something of a totem of solitude for me, appearing in several posts. I love Folding Chair. She might get her own Facebook fan page!!!
–WT
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S.O.S–Snow, Ominous Snow!
Somewhere, under this huge snow cloud that spans several states, there is a wooded ridge, overlooking a narrow stream valley with a quaint mill and beautiful gardens, a pond and a playground. That wooded ridge is blanketed, no, quilted…no, comfortered…no, duveted in three feet of snow. Under that snow is a modest, cozy cabin with [...]
Lancaster Cohousing wins share of £500,000 Low Carbon Communities Challenge grant!
From Wren: For my local friends, note that this is in Lancaster, UK, not Lancaster, PA…Congrats across the pond! The Mid Atlantic Cohousing Conference, Growing Smart Communities, is coming up March 20, 2010, in College Park, Maryland, USA.
PRESS RELEASE
Sustainable Living Projects Celebrate
£500,000 Grant for Halton Gorge Site
For Immediate Use
5/2/2010
Lancaster Cohousing, in partnership with LESS and [...]
How I know that Male Donkeys are not Polyamorous
Yes, this is a donkey checking out my dreadlocks. Animals are often drawn to me, but not usually in that nosy-stranger-at-the-bank kind of way. This one seems to be thinking, “Is it hay? Is it a bouquet of dead willows and petrified water snakes? What happened to the days when visitors used to bring me [...]
Naked Badminton: Warm Memories
I hate winter. I don’t like the short days, arriving at dinner in the dark. I don’t like being cold and having to bundle up in layers. I feel like the Michelin Man, so bundled up that my arms don’t even rest at my sides! Since I hate being cold, I spend little time outside [...]
Snowed in at Heathcote Community
Yep, the ice age has arrived at my little homestead, Hina Hanta. I’m due at yoga in the Heathcote Mill in seven minutes. The Mill is four hundred feet down a steep hill and I’m surrounded by…wait, I’ll measure it with a broom…sixteen inches of snow and counting. It’s supposed to stop around midnight. I [...]
Heathcote Winter Retreat
This weekend is Heathcote Community’s quarterly retreat. We also have weekly business meetings and frequent “feelings meetings” we call teas. But several times a year we gather to do more extended work. So this weekend we’ll be all together, sharing meals, doing yoga and bonding activities, deeply listening, baring our souls and consensing on our [...]
Mid Atlantic Cohousing Conference, March 20, 2010
I recently visited Liberty Village Cohousing Community near Frederick, Maryland. About an hour from my own Heathcote Community, Liberty Village had been on my list of places I’d like to visit for some time. I was invited by my friend C.T. Butler, author of On Conflict and Consensus, A Handbook on Formal Consensus Decisionmaking. C.T. [...]
Tie Dyeing, a Heathcote Fixture
Yes, it’s a stereotype: hippies living on the commune, dressed in homemade tie dye as they garden and strum guitars. But if stereotypes are rooted in some small reality, this one is alive and well at Heathcote Community.
Here at Heathcote, we have a ten-year member, Carol, who loves to practice and pass on this craft. [...]
Beep-Beep! Our Cleaning Traffic Jam
Heathcote Community is a pretty special place to live, with many unusual blessings. Friends and visitors often gush about our community dinners. Six nights a week, most of the community comes to the Mill for a shared meal. Each community member signs up to lovingly cook about thrice a month. That way, the work is [...]
