So we have a pretty gruelling schedule...
5:55AM wake-up
6 Physical Training
6:30 Personal Prayer
7 Breakfast
7:45 Morning Prayer
8-4:30 Work
6 Dinner
8 Evening talk
9 Evening Prayer
10:30/11 Lights out
and repeat...
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Sunday, June 18, 2006
New Beginnings
Its 4PM the Sunday following Philosophy Camp, and I think I finally got everything unpacked and resituated for the next two months here at the Company Summer Institute. I showed up late Friday afternoon and have spent much of the weekend spreading out my stuff and taking the talks I missed in. Abe, the company cook, recorded them for me.
The house we're staying in is quite long, it looks like a rambler, but with another half a house attached to one side. Everything is in common (shared). We have 2 regular meals with everyone 6 days a week (some people are gone for lunch and Sunday is free-for-all). We have triple bunks all in one room and have turned the house, the 14 of us are sharing, into a revolutionary barracks.
Wednesday through Saturday have consisted of 7 talks that make the social norms and codes conscious. The talks are about orienting us new comers to the experiential/spiritual knowledge the Company and the People of Praise has gained from living in intential community. We have talked about things like speech, friendship, and frogiveness and reconciliation in order to create a space to learn to grow/live in community.
However, tommorrow is when I will experience my first real Company day. Wake up at 5:25AM, PT, pray, Breakfast and begin work at 8AM. We then have a full day of work, dinner crew starts dinner at 4:30PM, with dinner at 6. Then evening talks will take place nearly every night as we continue to intentionally learn to build/live in community.
The CSI is about training ourselves to live community grounded in Jesus, and discerning what the Lord is doing in the world and what He has for us.
The house we're staying in is quite long, it looks like a rambler, but with another half a house attached to one side. Everything is in common (shared). We have 2 regular meals with everyone 6 days a week (some people are gone for lunch and Sunday is free-for-all). We have triple bunks all in one room and have turned the house, the 14 of us are sharing, into a revolutionary barracks.
Wednesday through Saturday have consisted of 7 talks that make the social norms and codes conscious. The talks are about orienting us new comers to the experiential/spiritual knowledge the Company and the People of Praise has gained from living in intential community. We have talked about things like speech, friendship, and frogiveness and reconciliation in order to create a space to learn to grow/live in community.
However, tommorrow is when I will experience my first real Company day. Wake up at 5:25AM, PT, pray, Breakfast and begin work at 8AM. We then have a full day of work, dinner crew starts dinner at 4:30PM, with dinner at 6. Then evening talks will take place nearly every night as we continue to intentionally learn to build/live in community.
The CSI is about training ourselves to live community grounded in Jesus, and discerning what the Lord is doing in the world and what He has for us.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
And so Philosophy Comes to an End...
It is the last day of Philosophy Camp out here on the plains of Southern Minnesota. We spent the last four weeks building intentional community and learning about 'lives worth living.' I started out needing to learn how to be.
My goals have changed and now I realize my life is about living in and building community (see Blog on Philosophy Camp website). I have grown socially, mentally, and spirtually. We have had an incredible time. Mary's all to intimate details, Birna's strong direction, Peter (nuff said).
Walking on our own paths we saw our beaten and beating trails converge. For one brief day we grew from a lone drifter to a small crowd each walking parallel down the same trail. We shared laughs, the nights and praire grass will forever murmur with our laughter. We told stories of terrifying joy and bone soaking sadness, and of other things. It was brilliant living. And now as the day's night turns to morning we one by one, ducking under low branches, take our own path back into the wood. Disappearing after hugs and warm good byes, but going nonetheless. Morning is coming and soon this road will be empty again. Me and the dust; open for new traveling companions.
My goals have changed and now I realize my life is about living in and building community (see Blog on Philosophy Camp website). I have grown socially, mentally, and spirtually. We have had an incredible time. Mary's all to intimate details, Birna's strong direction, Peter (nuff said).
Walking on our own paths we saw our beaten and beating trails converge. For one brief day we grew from a lone drifter to a small crowd each walking parallel down the same trail. We shared laughs, the nights and praire grass will forever murmur with our laughter. We told stories of terrifying joy and bone soaking sadness, and of other things. It was brilliant living. And now as the day's night turns to morning we one by one, ducking under low branches, take our own path back into the wood. Disappearing after hugs and warm good byes, but going nonetheless. Morning is coming and soon this road will be empty again. Me and the dust; open for new traveling companions.
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Welcome
This is the first post and a welcome to those who I have shut out. It is my hope that this space can facilitate further communication and provide insights into my experiences while encouraging others to share theirs with me.
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