Comments for Bucolic Ambition http://bucolicambition.com Yearning for the life pastoral...... Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:01:07 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Spring is Coming – Watch the Sales! by section 16 cattle company http://bucolicambition.com/2009/03/16/spring-is-coming-watch-the-sales/#comment-63 section 16 cattle company Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:01:07 +0000 http://bucolicambition.com/?p=180#comment-63 Very good post! I was wondering how you house your chickens? Erik Very good post! I was wondering how you house your chickens?

Erik

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]]> Comment on Building Community by highmountainmuse http://bucolicambition.com/2009/01/19/building-community/#comment-18 highmountainmuse Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:21:57 +0000 http://bucolicambition.com/?p=109#comment-18 I'm new to the internet world, but so pleased to find a sense of community and caring. Also just started a blog based on our family's simple life in the high mountains. Please take a look and let me know what you think: http://highmountainmuse.wordpress.com Thank you, and I look forward to reading more of your posts, Gin I’m new to the internet world, but so pleased to find a sense of community and caring. Also just started a blog based on our family’s simple life in the high mountains. Please take a look and let me know what you think: http://highmountainmuse.wordpress.com
Thank you, and I look forward to reading more of your posts,
Gin

]]> Comment on Building Community by Christy O http://bucolicambition.com/2009/01/19/building-community/#comment-12 Christy O Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:50:10 +0000 http://bucolicambition.com/?p=109#comment-12 Good ideas. Having just moved to a new community, I'm working on getting to know people and build community. On our street, we are the least knowledgeable people so we don't have a lot to offer. I made everyone cookies for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I'll probably do it again for Valentine's or Easter (or both). I have most of the skills you have, but my neighbors have those and more. Luckily, they are really welcoming and helpful. We will have a cookout when it gets warm and we are talking about raising a pig to have a pig roast next spring with everyone. Good ideas. Having just moved to a new community, I’m working on getting to know people and build community. On our street, we are the least knowledgeable people so we don’t have a lot to offer. I made everyone cookies for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I’ll probably do it again for Valentine’s or Easter (or both). I have most of the skills you have, but my neighbors have those and more. Luckily, they are really welcoming and helpful. We will have a cookout when it gets warm and we are talking about raising a pig to have a pig roast next spring with everyone.

]]> Comment on Building Community by Lores http://bucolicambition.com/2009/01/19/building-community/#comment-6 Lores Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:08:43 +0000 http://bucolicambition.com/?p=109#comment-6 What a lovely post! We live in a society, where we have more information and resources to make the world a better place than ever before...but so often people don't make use of these things. I suppose I think of the term 'community' in a slightly different way to what I think you mean. The organisation I work for - a community group based in East London ran an event where people got together and shared their ideas for positive social change - therefore creating a new 'community' of change makers. You can read more here if interested www.chain-reaction.org Anyway - working for a community organisation, I appreciate what you mean by community - that sense of making a difference and belonging somewhere / someplace. So firstly, is there a need in your community that you think needs addressing? It could be that there are no clear channels of communication - so why not run a town / village new channel / web page where people can express their views / share ideas / recipes - whatever. Is there a volunteering programme you can get involved in (you mentioned volunteering in your blog post). Could you run a bake sale to raise money for something that needs doing in your community? More benches in local park for example? Can you involve your local government official (an MP in the UK!) in supporting what you are doing, or having a more active role in the community (on a grassroots level?) (What the charity I work for did, was get our Prime Minister Gordon Brown along to our event to listen to what some children thought were the major social problems in the UK.) Wow this is a long comment, but I have so much to say on this issue. Just to summarise though - I think a sense of community can evolve around working together for a common good / or a goal. Right I'm gone now! What a lovely post!

We live in a society, where we have more information and resources to make the world a better place than ever before…but so often people don’t make use of these things.

I suppose I think of the term ‘community’ in a slightly different way to what I think you mean. The organisation I work for – a community group based in East London ran an event where people got together and shared their ideas for positive social change – therefore creating a new ‘community’ of change makers. You can read more here if interested http://www.chain-reaction.org

Anyway – working for a community organisation, I appreciate what you mean by community – that sense of making a difference and belonging somewhere / someplace.

So firstly, is there a need in your community that you think needs addressing? It could be that there are no clear channels of communication – so why not run a town / village new channel / web page where people can express their views / share ideas / recipes – whatever.

Is there a volunteering programme you can get involved in (you mentioned volunteering in your blog post).

Could you run a bake sale to raise money for something that needs doing in your community? More benches in local park for example?

Can you involve your local government official (an MP in the UK!) in supporting what you are doing, or having a more active role in the community (on a grassroots level?)

(What the charity I work for did, was get our Prime Minister Gordon Brown along to our event to listen to what some children thought were the major social problems in the UK.)

Wow this is a long comment, but I have so much to say on this issue. Just to summarise though – I think a sense of community can evolve around working together for a common good / or a goal.

Right I’m gone now!

]]> Comment on Building Community by BeNice Creator http://bucolicambition.com/2009/01/19/building-community/#comment-5 BeNice Creator Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:36:11 +0000 http://bucolicambition.com/?p=109#comment-5 I think that raising/educating your children, painting (I, too, am a painter), gardening (to what I aspire--my thumb is greener every year), butchering your own livestock, quilting---those are all wonderfully unique things that only you could do in the special way you do. Perhaps it doesn't seem terribly important in the face of current econimcal dilemmas and whatnot, but it is absolutely imperitive to keep a hand on those things that are artistic, holistic, that connect us with our sources of nourishment, that prepare young people for the future. In addition to technology taking up our time, so does worry. It is continuing acts of meaningful fulfillment and sincere connection that ensures a continually growing relationship with others. And as someone whose loved one was in the hospital last week, a cooked meal is a huge gift and a great blessing to have in a time of stress! I hope more take your lead! :-) And of course, my idea of connecting with my community is consistent efforts to interact with strangers (at stores especially). This really opens up my world and I learn so much from these nameless people--things that I would otherwise never have known. :) I think that raising/educating your children, painting (I, too, am a painter), gardening (to what I aspire–my thumb is greener every year), butchering your own livestock, quilting—those are all wonderfully unique things that only you could do in the special way you do. Perhaps it doesn’t seem terribly important in the face of current econimcal dilemmas and whatnot, but it is absolutely imperitive to keep a hand on those things that are artistic, holistic, that connect us with our sources of nourishment, that prepare young people for the future. In addition to technology taking up our time, so does worry. It is continuing acts of meaningful fulfillment and sincere connection that ensures a continually growing relationship with others.

And as someone whose loved one was in the hospital last week, a cooked meal is a huge gift and a great blessing to have in a time of stress! I hope more take your lead! :-)

And of course, my idea of connecting with my community is consistent efforts to interact with strangers (at stores especially). This really opens up my world and I learn so much from these nameless people–things that I would otherwise never have known. :)

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