Project sanctuary

Don't read too much into the title; consider it provisional.

I wish to write about a project I have started and hope to build on significantly in this last decade or so of my productive life; fates and God willin'.

The centerpiece of the project is to be a structure for living purposes. Chief amongst its design objectives is to serve a small but changing group, directly, for a 1,000 years. And indirectly a much larger number of folk.

A 12 hectacre +/- plot, on which I hold the fee (ancient English /French? legal term meaning as full ownership as a body can get in a plot of land) is where I have started. It's about 12 km east of Rosseau, in the Township of Muskoka Lakes. How's that for a petty township name.

I am inspired in this effort by a project headed originally by Danny Hillis, renowned computer scientist and all round genius. He is building a 10,000 year clock, with more seriousness than I'll bet you imagine.
Check it out at thelongnow.org

Who cares if he succeeds. The project may be seen as an exercise with many dimensions, most of them eminently meritorious, and most of them providing value even at these early stages.

The big message I suppose is that it is right and good to keep the long term in mind, and that it should contribute to how one lives one's life.

That's a start for tonight. Got further than I thought I would. Back at'er soon I trust.


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