Saturday, August 25, 2012

What is HomeTribe?

Original Post at the MorningCalll: "HomeTribe" - A Place of Belonging: http://themorningcalll.blogspot.com/2010/08/hometribe-place-of-belonging.html



"HomeTribe" is the working name which brings me joy while we do the work of discovery and bringing about a Home for Children.
The hope is that the many children who come to be cared for will finally come home to place of love and belonging - a true family and home. The vision is for altogether sustainable lives: A home and eco-village of sorts where the children can feel safe again, play, learn, grow, flourish, and eventually contribute to the community in which the Home is situated and their lives have context.
This future home will also seek to provide the children as many opportunities as possible to stay connected to the surrounding indigenous culture wherever it may be: preserve and encourage creative interaction with the local community, language, arts, song, dance, and food as they have known it. We will strive to create ways of living which make for and encourage sustainable relationships, sustainable land conservation and care, using sustainable free-energy, through sustainable learning.
It is my hope that these spiritual qualities will reign as the norm: Love, wisdom, mercy, freedom, innocence, peace, healing wholeness, safety, joy throughout the creative whole of life.
By innocence, I mean a willingness to remain teachable, and to be led by what is good and true, thus life-long learning, so that the qualities named above become character. The understanding is that by having a humble, soft learning-edge - over time by journey and process, and a coming-into-being, we arrive at that place. That there is a place of hope and inviolability in every individual and that this is the place from which healing begins, unfolds, and grows. Thus innocence can be restored to any individual no matter their experiences or circumstances.
I like working under the auspices of this name "HomeTribe" because 1. it is fun and has both an ancient and a modern ring. 2. it is terminology young people use and understand. 3. because it means bringing children together in a family from unlikely and diverse origins. 4. because a diverse group of people who formerly didn't know each other are coming together through this common love and purpose. 5. because while we make the effort is to create a stable fixed loving home environment, the socio-historical connotations of this term acknowledges that life, true family, homecoming (be it by origin or adoption) is both a process and a journey.
Over the next six-nine months, it is my hope we will learn what works best and what doesn't from the "best practices" of successful sustainable homes already established. I have been witness to some already. I am/we are learning.

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