innovative organizations--and community

[Frank Deitle]

Marei,

you said:
"PS: Where are you located, Frank? I couldn't anything about you on the
page."

At the moment I am in Bethel, Alaska visiting my dad and experiencing the
wonderful open space of the tundra and the Kuskokwim river. I will be
returning to Massachusetts next week where I may be working with a rural
environmental education program center in the position of caretaker/lodge
coordinater--a position with which I see much potential to integrate OST
tools into day to day operations and community life. More on those ideas
later...

and:
"PPS: What does commoikos mean?"

"Commoikos" comes from the Latin "com" meaning "together" and the Greek
"oikos" meaning "home" ("oikos" is where we get the prefix "eco" from as in
ecology--the study of home). Thus commoikos means "home together" which is
what I conceive universal enlightenment to be like... coming home together.

Peace,
Frank


On 5/29/06, Marei Kiele <MareiKiele at web.de> wrote:
>
>
>
> Frank, thank you for your wonderful webpage. I have bookmarked it and am
> looking forward to visiting every now and then and finding more and more
> treasures. I havn't put my attention to living in a community yet, as it
> seemed to far away from what I see around me, but reading about your vision
> makes it be closer and more achievable to me also ~ so I will include it in
> my wish-list, set an attention and attract this into my life sooner or
> later.
>
> Additionally, virtually I already experience being part of such a
> community on this list ~ hey, I am back into reading emails after having
> deleted the last 500+ because of feeling totally overwhelmed. And the moment
> I deleted my whole "os-list to be read later" folder I felt wonderful. And
> am now able to enjoy these conversations again.
>
> With joy and appreciation,
> Marei
>
> PS: Where are you located, Frank? I couldn't anything about you on the
> page.
>
> PPS: What does commoikos mean?
>
>
>
>  "Frank Deitle" <mailto:commoikos at gmail.com> <commoikos at gmail.com%3E>
>  schrieb:
>
> > Mark and OS friends,
> >
> > I was going thru the some unread OSLIST emails today and discovered
> > this gem in Mark's wonderful post about "living an open space life."
> >
> > "Anne Stadler suggested that the next experiment should be an
> > intentional community based on "Living in Open Space".  So she founded
> > the "Spirited Work Community" in 1999.  With that, our focus (Anne and
> > I) changed from predominantly organization-oriented OS to
> > community-oriented OS."
> >
> > I'd like to hear more about the Spirited Work Community and open space
> > intentional communities in general. Ever since I discovered OST (or
> > did it discover me?) this year from the wonderful Lisa Heft, I have
> > fantasized about what a large-scale residential intentional
> > community/ecovillage/sustainable human settlement would be like if it
> > was visioned, organized, planned, executed, maintained, and governed
> > in Open Space. What kind of crazy, wonderful creature would that
> > become? What kind culture would emerge out of that? Are other people
> > out there thinking about this sort of thing? How do you see it
> > unfolding/coming about?
> >
> > I recently started to build a website to explore my own
> > conceptualizations of such an endeavor. It is very much in its early
> > stages of development. It very well may be entirely naive. All I know
> > is that I can't stop thinking about it. The website is:
> > http://commoikos.googlepages.com.
> >
> > Peace,
> > Frank Deitle
>

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