"When am working on a problem - I never think about beauty... but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful - I know it is wrong."

-Richard Buckminster Fuller

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

  -Ambrose Redmoon

Shibui

Simple, restrained elegance - a result unlike all others - often the clever solution to an awkward problem.

Clear the world away and follow the consciousness burning within you - I will do the same.  

                        -NAB

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Principles and words that guide us...

"Be a maverick...  follow your bliss"

    -Joseph Campbell

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."        

                -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 “the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts” we must “simply enlarge the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants and animals, or collectively: the land”.

              -Aldo Leopold

Phi

the ratio found ubiquitously in nature, art, music.

Also called the "Divine Proportion"

1:1.618....

"When faced with a problem

               where the solution is not obvious,

 we search for the phi result."

“Unless we can solve the problem of the distribution of this abundance – unless we can solve hunger and hardship in all this plenty – we will be actors in the greatest tragedy in history.”

-Phil La Follette

Our collective vision is to nurture an environment of commerce and connections, guided by sustainability, goodwill, love and harmony. It is our intense hope that what we do now positively affects many generations to follow.  

-NAB

The water of ingenuity and self-sufficiency moistens the seed of humanity, and so our society cycles once again, blossoming from the agora.

   -alm

Imagination is more important than knowledge -Albert Einstein

Our community will forever cycle. My hope is that we harness the power of the change itself to invigorate our community with local commerce, simply by loving the earth, each other, and what we can create from it all!

     -alm

All things great require struggle

               -NAB

Your mind is not you - but yours.

 -Dr. Il Che Lee

Wealth, Contentedness and Balance, An Essay by alm