Welcome

A New Beginning

Welcome to Light Morning’s newly re-designed web site. The first version went on line in 2001, courtesy of Microsoft FrontPage. With FrontPage now cranky and obsolete, and with a more flexible WordPress platform now available, it’s time for a change.

What’s New in ‘09?

The graphic design has evolved, and will continue to be tweaked. The site navigation system has been improved. Random Insights and Images have been added. Our photo albums have been updated and moved to Flickr. (See the Photos page for the link.) The Visiting and Interning pages have both been revised. And given the sophistication of spammers these days, our Contact page now sports a formal contact form, rather than the more innocent listing of our email address.

The biggest change, however, is the transformation of our Journal into a blog. For three years, from the spring of 2001 through the winter of 2003, we published dozens of articles exploring the physical, social, and transformational facets of this lifestyle. Those Journal articles are still here; they’re still relevant; and they’re easily found. (Use the Categories menu, the Search bar, and/or the Site Map, all to the upper right side of the Journal~Blog pages.)

WordPress allows us to easily resume posting both current and archival stories about our life at Light Morning. It doesn’t magically gift us with the time needed to write and/or edit these stories. But it does make the process of posting them close to effortless, which greatly increases the likelihood that they will be posted.

We Welcome Your Participation

WordPress also introduces a wonderful opportunity for dialogue. We therefore encourage your comments on any of the posts you find here, both past and present. We’d love to hear from you! Click the small “Add Your Comment” link at the top of any post, or, if you’ve already opened the post on its own page, scroll down to the bottom of the page. (With another nod to the spamming industry, you’ll have to log in and be approved the first time you post a comment. It’s quick and easy.)

And if you’d like to offer stories about your own experiences at Light Morning, or your own growing edges as they relate to Light Morning, please do so. Just let us know and we’ll tweak the WordPress settings to facilitate your sharings in this Journal.

Just as the graphic design of Light Morning’s new web site will continue to evolve, so will our understanding of how to enhance its potential to promote dialogue. This evolution will no doubt be bumpy and erratic at times, so we ask for your patience and welcome your participation. We hope you enjoy your time here, and look forward to seeing some of you in the lovely Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia.

A Navigational Postscript

The standard blog format is to list posts in chronological order from the newest to the oldest. This works well when you want to scan through the recent posts and can find them right at the top of a sometimes long list. If, however, the posts are part of a series, you come upon them in reverse order.

Somewhere below the post you’re now reading, for example, you’ll find the fifth and final post in a series called “A Bioregional Seminar”. If you want to read this series (or any other series) in the sequence in which it was written (1-2-3-4-5 rather than 5-4-3-2-1) you can click on the navigation link for that particular series and it will automatically sort them into a more readable order.

These navigation links can be found in two places: in the highlighted line of text close to the top of each post that is part of a series; and in the main navigation bar (on the upper right side of all the Journal~Blog pages) under the section called Journal Categories (Series).

You can try out this navigational sleight-of-hand any time you come upon a post that is part of a series.