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This site is about the life and work of Eliot Hurwitz and Magdalena Valderrama, especially as it is emerging in the aftermath of the catastrophic Valley Fire, which swept through Lake County California in September 2015 and changed our lives overnight.
Since the fire, we have been focused in serving the recovery and redevelopment of our local community and in the cooperative process of recovery with our friends. In the process, we are finding that all of the work we have done prior to the fire has prepared us in many ways to do this work - our careers in government and the nonprofit world, experience with disasters, and especially our decades as students and devotees of Avatar Adi Da Samraj.
In the blog pages we will be posting a narrative about the wild adventure in which we now find ourselves involved - a potential new "village" development, a new community government council, a new home altogether - all in the context of a local and global whirlwind of shifting economic, ecological and cultural forces. We will chronicle not only the events as they unfold but also share many of the resources and nodes of connection that we encounter.
We know that we are part of a large, even global effort to re-imagine truly sustainable, resilient forms of cooperative community life, even of sacred cultural life, that can exist gracefully upon the Earth. Please read and share your suggestions as this adventure unfolds.
love,
Eliot and Magdalena
UPDATE: WE HAVE MOVED OUR ACTIVE SITE (such as it is) to our nonprofit organization - the Seigler Springs Community Redevelopment Association - SSCRA. Click HERE to go to that site.
Since the fire, we have been focused in serving the recovery and redevelopment of our local community and in the cooperative process of recovery with our friends. In the process, we are finding that all of the work we have done prior to the fire has prepared us in many ways to do this work - our careers in government and the nonprofit world, experience with disasters, and especially our decades as students and devotees of Avatar Adi Da Samraj.
In the blog pages we will be posting a narrative about the wild adventure in which we now find ourselves involved - a potential new "village" development, a new community government council, a new home altogether - all in the context of a local and global whirlwind of shifting economic, ecological and cultural forces. We will chronicle not only the events as they unfold but also share many of the resources and nodes of connection that we encounter.
We know that we are part of a large, even global effort to re-imagine truly sustainable, resilient forms of cooperative community life, even of sacred cultural life, that can exist gracefully upon the Earth. Please read and share your suggestions as this adventure unfolds.
love,
Eliot and Magdalena
UPDATE: WE HAVE MOVED OUR ACTIVE SITE (such as it is) to our nonprofit organization - the Seigler Springs Community Redevelopment Association - SSCRA. Click HERE to go to that site.