High Hope is in the midst of Her own transition!
By Krystyna Jurzykowski
As we each and all find ourselves in such phenomenal times of change and transition, High Hope is also in the midst of Her own transition!
What you have come to love, appreciate and support through visits and memberships is being dedicated to the future, to continue as a conservancy-in-perpetuity, through what will become the legal stewardship by a national land trust, Yggdrasil Land Foundation (YLF), whose principles and approach support the values and principles of High Hope’s eco-mission.
We want to introduce you to YLF:
Yggdrasil Land Foundation protects and stewards lands and places that ennoble the human being and the earth. Such places, including farms, ranches, buildings, other sites and lands, are the sanctuaries of the future and serve as sources of physical, soul and spiritual nourishment. Further, Yggdrasil recognizes that access to land and creative spaces is part of developing a more just and inspiring world.
Yggdrasil protects land and constructed spaces from the speculative marketplace. Yggdrasil’s stewardship redefines ownership, use, and community within the framework of association and cultural practice. We recognize entrepreneurial destiny paths. Yggdrasil makes it possible for biodynamic and regenerative farmers, ranchers and other social entrepreneurs to access productive de-commodified places. Yggdrasil’s sustaining purpose is to foster the development of place-based regional economies that reflect the richness of a just and human culture.
For more information visit this link.
We are excited by this collaborative partnership!
On behalf of these transitions, a small group dedicated May 19th to being present with the lands and all her inhabitants, visible and non-physical, ancestral as well as those who will become future stewards.
We gathered at the center of the standing Stone Circle in prayer for High Hope’s Destiny. Together we prepared a harmonizing Biodynamic preparation and spread that preparation along with our prayers to the far reaches and boundaries of High Hope.
A dedication to this purpose and impulse was read and shared:
High Hope Dedication, May 19, 2021
[Set down by John Bloom on behalf of the High Hope Land Council, Yggdrasil Land Foundation, High Hope, and the angels and ancestors who stewarded this land before us.]
Earth wisdom speaks
The simple terms of heart
Wisdom filled with elements
And elemental art.
Be in creation.
Beings in creation
Selfless in service.
Water wisdom speaks
The shaping terms of form
Wisdom filled with movement
And metamorphic flow.
Be in formation.
Beings in the forming now.
Air wisdom speaks
The mutuality of breath.
Wisdom filled with radiance
And upright strength
Be in air.
Beings in breathing
Life sustaining purpose.
Fire wisdom speaks
The necessity of warmth.
Wisdom filled with transforming power
Be in fire.
Beings in sublimation
From matter to spirit, spirit unto matter.
Earth, Water, Air, Fire
Ceremonial blessings that desire
To unite us:
Individual to Individual,
Individual to Land,
Land to Community,
Community to Destiny
As the day turned into evening, we were gifted from the skies:
We continue to further this potent dream, through many administrative steps, aiming for this process to complete in 2022. In the meantime, we yield to the emergence, step-by-step, along this dedicated sequence of flow for High Hope’s future.
You are with us! We are ever so grateful.
As always send forever, Krystyna, you are deeply in service, bringing the future here now.
Many blessings for this union in precious care for life.
I am feeling such respect for all of those involved in this collaborative partnership… all I can think to say is Amen
It does my soul good to know that High Hope will continue in the future safe.