Month: December 2015
Trading Birdsong for Fireworks
As you celebrate New Year 2016, consider trading in the boom and lights for quiet birdsong, soft waves or a quiet garden stroll. Vashon Island in the Puget Sound offers bird shelter among the driftwood. On the beach, small brown birds nestle and forage among the smooth pebbles and Puget Sound driftwood. If you spend a few minutes…
The city has been likened to a poem…
Each month in our Open Voices blog we share insight from leaders and ideas advancing what it means to have sacred, open green spaces in our cities. This week we examine the aesthetic and poetic elements of civic sacred. “The city has been likened to a poem, a sculpture, a machine. But the city is more than a…
“I would like to be made more beautiful…” #Benchstories #Naturesacred
Today’s Bench Story comes from the journal in the Open Spaces Sacred Places at the Baltimore Clayworks in Baltimore, MD. #Benchstories are collected from the journals found in all TKF Foundation Open Spaces Sacred Places….
Who Owns That? 5 Ways to determine property ownership
Abandoned, dilapidated properties can have a major impact on a neighborhood. Beyond the physical appearance of an abandoned lot, trash, broken glass and other items that can collect on the lot can become a hazard to the community. One of the first steps in converting an abandoned property to community green space is determining who owns…
Urban Green Spaces: Bridging Differences
Each month in our Nature Sacred blog we share insight from leaders and ideas advancing what it means to have sacred, open green spaces in our cities. This December we examine the concept of “civic sacred”. Public discussion about the experiences and emotions of religion and the Sacred may be challenging. Although Civic sacred is not limited…
Can Peace Exist… #Benchstories #NatureSacred
Today’s Bench Story comes from the Open Spaces Sacred Places at The Children’s Peace Center in Baltimore, MD. #Benchstories are collected from the journals found under the bench in all Open Spaces Sacred Places….
Civic sacred: person, place, process
Each month in our Open Voices blog we share insight from leaders and ideas advancing what it means to have sacred, open green spaces in our cities. This December we examine the concept of “civic sacred”. People readily recognize the importance of positive relationships with friends and loved ones. Relationships with places are also important aspects of…
To all the victims of cancer… #Benchstories #Naturesacred
Today’s Bench Story comes from the Open Space Sacred Place at the Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie, Maryland. #Benchstories are collected from the journals found under the bench in all Nature Sacred Open Spaces Sacred Places….
Five Grants to Fund Your Community Green Space
Finding the financing for community projects can often be the most intimidating part of the process. Fortunately, there are a number of organizations looking to help community groups improve their neighborhoods, often on a very small, localized scale. Many of these organizations will even walk applicants through the process and put help put the applicant…
Encountering the Civic Sacred
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. John Muir The Nature Sacred Principle is sponsored by the TKF family foundation, which has funded intimate, open, urban green spaces in the mid-Atlantic region of the…
