August 14th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Community, Family, Prayer, friends, mustard seed house
Today is a sad day at the Mustard Seed House. Our friends, family and fellow communitarians Anneke and Peter Geel are embarking in a new journey today which is taking them away (only physically) from us.
They have been a great influence in shaping the life and rhythms of the Mustard Seed House. We will miss [...]
August 6th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Children, Community, Family, alternative, creativity, faith, friends, gardening, hospitality, incarnational, kids, kingdom, mustard seed house
This is a reflection written by our fellow sister, friend and communitarian at the Mustard Seed House, Anneke Geel.
Reflection: A year at the Mustard Seed House
By Anneke Geel
When Peter and I and moved into the Mustard Seed House, we didn’t know whether it would be for 15 months or several years. As it [...]
August 5th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Community, Family, Liberated Spaces, Spirituality, alternative, blogs, concientization, creativity, education, faith, fresh expressions, global christianity, homegrown education, horizontalism, life
Check out the new homegrown plot to transform the world by the Rosario-Kilmer tribe.
My wife (Ricci) just launched a blog in which she will reflect on holistic life and spirituality from the perspective of a practitioner, revolutionary, mother, wife, communitarian and homegrown critical educator.
The Revolution Starts at Home
Making coffee to open our eyes in the [...]
July 19th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Community, Family, alternative, creativity, faith, hospitality, incarnational, kingdom, liberated space, mustard seed house, new monasticism
The Mustard Seed House (MSH) is an intentional Christian Community in Seattle. I am very fortunate to be one of the original core families and conspirators in this liberated space in which we try to embody God’s Kingdom value as a new kind of family.
Here are some photos of some of our gatherings, activities and [...]
June 29th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Community, Family, Praxis, Puerto Rico, Social Justice, economy, education, eliacin, faith, resistance
I’ve always been drawn to the underdogs, the raggamuffins, the workers and the unassuming simple people. Perhaps because of my own family history. I grew up in a working barrio in Puerto Rico. My family life was simple, but not the voluntary simplicity option of the middle class, but the un-voluntary simplicity of the [...]
June 22nd, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Children, Family, Uncategorized, parenting
Gabrielito is my 18 month old son. He was born on Christmas Day 2006. He was born with a respiratory problem and had to be resucitated at the moment of birth and was taken by ambulance to the NICU at Swedish Hospital in Seattle. An unforgetful moment.
Last night we had another tense parent episode. He [...]
June 17th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Family, eliacin
Jahaira is my lil’ sister. We are 3 years apart. We grew up climbing mango trees, eating quenepas and riding and our old rusty bikes around the barrio La Plena in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico.
We have amazing memories of our childhood games and dreams. We’ve also experienced our good amount of pain and suffering together.
Jahaira is [...]
June 15th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Family, celebration, eliacin
Photo taken in Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico April 2007
I’m fortunate to have my dad around this month here in Seattle. Someone asked me once which were my favorite saints and I was not surprise to find mentioning my dad as one of them.
¡Felíz día de los padres mi Viejo!
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June 11th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Community, Family, Praxis, alternative, christianity, faith, friends, hospitality, kingdom, life, monasticism, multicultural, mustard seed associates, mustard seed house, new monasticism, rule of life
Peter and Anneke Geel will be leaving the Mustard Seed House in August. Peter has been accepted into the doctoral program at Georgetown University and for some reason they aren’t very keen on commuting to Washington DC each week. We are looking for a couple who are interested in joining our small community here in [...]
June 9th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Family, Personal, Uncategorized, celebration, eliacin
Blogging have been sporadically around here recently. I’ll be on and offline on vacation until June 30 showing off Seattle and the Washington State to my family from Puerto Rico.
Today we will celebrate a year of missed birthday parties.
Photo taken April 2007 in Ponce, Puerto Rico
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