Light Morning was a small, vision-driven community nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. We first set up tents here in the spring of 1974. Over the following years, hundreds of restless seekers passed through. A few stayed on to become crew.
Light Morning’s founding vision had suggested that it would be wise — especially during troubled times — to live close to the Earth; to use homesteading and community as crucibles for transformation; and to serve as a way station on the new underground railroad.
The unanticipated intensities of this undertaking helped us become resilient. “Resilience: 1.) the power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretched; elasticity. 2.) ability to recover readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like; buoyancy.” [Dictionary.com]
Light Morning was decommissioned in the summer of 2019. The founders were aging; the younger crew members had moved on. So after forty-five years, we were no longer able to function as a community or serve as a center. Yet what those decades taught us about resilience continues to be relevant.
Turbulent times tend to recur. Whether the challenges we’re facing at any given moment are personal or interpersonal, spiritual or societal, resilience helps us navigate them with empathy and grace. Believing that what we’ve learned and what we’re continuing to learn at Light Morning may prove useful to others, this website will chronicle our past and present endeavors to become more resilient — both outwardly and inwardly.
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