Architecture for a Sustainable World Workshop

Weeklong Retreat/Workshop

July 21-23, 2006

(Optional stay for week of July 24-28)

Retreat House

Roll up your sleeves, get your hands in the mortar, and help us build a small dwelling near the Art Cottage! Learn how to do cordwood construction and add colored bottle-ends for light, while enjoying the camaraderie of others.

The cost of the retreat is $50 per person for meals and lodging. To register or get more information, email scot@rollingridge or linda@rollingridge.net.

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Villagers in AFrica are interested not in accumulation but in a sense of fullness. Abundance means a sense of fullness, which cannot be measured by the yardstick of the material goods we possess or the amount of money in a bank account. Abundance, in that sense of fullness, has a power that takes us way from worry. It is the kind of feeling you get when you are in communion with the natural, in communion with the source. There is some sense in which the work,, or the love of work, is the love of this kind of abundance. It is the kind of fullness you get by being with other people. Most work done in the village is done collectively. The purpose is not so much the desire to get the job done but to raise enough energy for people to feel nourished by what they do. The nourishment does not come AFTER the job, it comes BEFORE the job and DURING the job. The nation that you should do something so that you get paid so that then you can nourish yourself disappears You are nourished first, and then the work flows out of your fullness.

~ from THE HEALING WISDOM OF AFRICA by Malidoma Some with thanks to Fredi Brown

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