Aloha Garden of Peace

I have been wanting Mark and I to sit down together and write out our vision, mission, and purpose for our Aloha Garden of Peace.  When I first reconnected with Mark in November of 2009, he explained that this was the name he wanted for his home.  I grew to like it and it is the name for our home and future life in Hawaii.  We have spoken about some of our dreams for what we would like to have on our property, but it is time to clarify our vision in the written word.

In a short summary, we currently have nine acres (which makes a rectangle) .  Someday, we would like to buy the additional nine acres next to our property to make it almost a square.  On our property, we would like to build:

1. our home

2. guest rooms for friends, families, wedding parties

3. a wedding chapel/large group meeting place

4. guest rooms for nursing patients

5. a school

6. an art studio

7. a birthing center

The property will have water catchment, a grey water reclamation system, composting toilets, solar power for water, plumbing, and power.

Activities on our property will include (these activities apply to all ages, generations, visitors, family members and guests)

quiet time, meditation, prayer (individual and collective), gardening, planting, harvesting, food preparation, art creation, daily, weekly, and monthly chores, music playing, bicycling, contra dancing, and many other worthy and enlightening activities.

Much love to all!!

News!

Mark and I will be going to Hawaii this summer from May 20-July 29.  We will begin by clearing the driveway and a spot for our stuff to land when it comes off the boat and out of the shipping container.  We hope, if we get our act together, to bring our stuff over in the Fall/winter of this year.  We’ll see what happens!  God is guiding us each step of the way!

Below are pictures of our property from the road.  You can see that there is a lot of greenery!!  We’ll certainly have our work ‘cut out’ for us!!  Ha ha!