a bioregional movement
The more beautiful
front range
The More Beautiful Movement is underway.
We represent a growing number of land stewards here on the Front Range:
a dynamic population of movement-makers, grounded healers, ritual artists, craftspeople, scientists, students, philosophers, computer programmers, adventurers,
all weavers of the living web,
devoted to regenerating these lands and our relationships herewith.
We are Mystery Workers, taking up the shared mantle of responsibility for our presence here, the incontrovertible reality of our interbeing, the material manifestation of aspects of our land-bound fate.
Why?
Because loving the same land makes us family again;
it makes us kin.
We move More Beautifully when we attend to the living ecologies that nourish us with food and medicine and home.
We live More Beautifully when we beckon, protect, and give thanks for the life-giving waters of ground and sky.
We commune More Beautifully when we honor the original ancestors of these lands:
the Ute, the Cheyenne, the Arapaho peoples,
the bison, the wolves, the unbroken grasslands.
We work More Beautifully when we do it together.
the Front Range IS where it has already begun
We, Mystery Workers of the Front Range, are growing and deepening our sacred and scientific relationships with these particular lands, regenerating topsoil, planting pollinator gardens, selecting and saving heirloom seeds, preventing further soil erosion, and generally defying the monstrously destructive march of the industrial extraction system by sheer cleverness and wet (sweat, tears, blood) devotion. There is a lot more for us to do, grieve, and repair, and yet there is cause for celebration that this is already happening, that:
we cook each other food,
we catch each other’s stories,
we dance together in ecstasy,
we remember each other’s prayers,
we sing each other’s songs.
The relational field here is not pasteurized, not homogenous, and it is also not abstract - it is culturing;
it is vibrant, vital and alive.
We are returning home to each other and to the land, here in the Foothills, along the Front Range of the Rockies, where the grassy plains meet the ascending coniferous forests. Something magical is happening here.
the vision
The Vision is of a regenerative Front Range, with thriving food-sheds, soil-sheds, water-sheds, culture-sheds, a bellwether of the decentralized movement to affirm life and our ability as humans to steward and nurture natural systems towards greater vitality and diversity.
The regenerative movement is well underway here in the Front Range, and it is the mission of The Mystery Works to proliferate the possibilities of what we can do, together - for these particular lands and beyond.
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We nourish the soil that feeds us by linking folks doing similar work and holding similar visions. Devotional Coworking Sessions offer a place where such meetings and weavings can happen, as we trust life to continue to reveal clever ways forward and deeper.
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This movement is based on the depth and intimacy of real relationships. It spreads through direct contacts, among folks who share hearts, prayers, dance floors, food, healing, and sacred labors. We take each other’s hands and proceed together.
Even still, it is not a line. There is no “front.” Every center is an edge, and every edge, a center. The More Beautiful Movement is oriented towards connection, mutual nourishment, and stabilizing depths.
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We trust the greater knowing of Life and the Land itself to support the regeneration and diverse flourishing of our land and community. None of us claims to know the wholeness of what is happening, but, rather, we aim to give ourselves to what is unfolding with presence, humility, and relationality. Life knows better than any one of us. Together, we are closer, and the Mystery abides it all.
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Life cultures healthy substrates. Like gut flora or sourdough starter or the very soil beneath our feet, Life creates more life when the living is good, when nutrients are present, when the conditions are ripe. We aim to support Life in culturing the living here, to bloom our collective strength and diversity in support of regenerating the land here and in all places.
The More Beautiful World is one we weave together.
The More Beautiful World starts with kinship and great experiments of belonging for all of us. To feel deeply together, to witness our impacts on others, to differentiate self from other and another and another yet still, while bone-knowing the density and breadth of that which binds us, forged by bright and dark seasons.
Here, on the Front Range, seeds have sprouted taproots of what Charles Eisenstein planted ten years ago as “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible.” The roots discover nutrients and nurturers here. We give thanks for such good shoulders.
happening
there’s something
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We are here together.