There is a Facebook group for Intentional Communities in Minneapolis, and though I haven’t posted there, I have wondered what my message for that group would be if I wanted to communicate about my vision. Here’s what I came up with last night:

I have been in Minneapolis since 2016. In 2022, I bought a house in Golden Valley with grand ambitions for a community house. Initially it was 5 of us living together, 3 adults and 2 kiddos. Since then, there have been a few other visitors and residents, but I have also been spending a fair bit of time here on my own in a kind of community house failure.

It’s given me space to daydream and imagine. I want to do something a bit different than how others have done this. This house has a kind of mission, which I am only just starting to understand. It is a guest house for theater. There is a living room rehearsal space for music and storytelling. There are mostly guest rooms, with only a couple rooms for the house managers to live. There are frequent, if not daily activities at the house for friends and guests.

We cook and eat together, and the food is grown in the garden and comes from local sources close to the earth. We drink clean water and avoid products that are designed to cause harm. We are aligned with music and harmony of the universe.

The house is still in the womb so to speak. Or it’s been neglected. It is too much house for me to manage on my own. I didn’t move here to have a retreat from the world, but that is what it has become, and I’m ready to invite others to join me.

So, if there is something intriguing about my vision, feel free to reach out and I will plan to have a house meeting for folks who would like to be involved in the creation of this Residential Healing Center. It will be a site for retreats and healing workshops. It might be relevant that I work as a Medical Doctor, and what I would most like to do is to show people about healthy living by inviting them to come stay at my home as a “high touch” AirB&B. Do you understand what I’m describing? A home that invites guests to go on a deep healing journey. Who would like to be part of that? Who wants to help?