Men’s Vision House
MEN’S VISION HOUSE
As part of its commitment to promoting men’s wellness, Q-LAND/Manifest and an intergenerational group of visionary investors created a cooperative Men’s Vision House in June, 2007. The house is dedicated to supporting gentle, powerful men in creating their unique visions of wellness & community. Please call Bart Church, Property Manager, at 503-223-8822 x2 if you want to know if there are vacancies in the house. If you want to explore the possibility of becoming a guest of the Men’s Vision House, pleases contact Michael St. John, guest relations coordinator, at (503) 283-7040. We allow guests to stay up to 2 weeks if they are manifesting a vision that inspires us. Longer sabbaticals (up to 3 months) can be negotiated if you’re working on a bigger project and the house wants to support you.
HOUSE VISION
“Love is the source of health: love of self, others, & all life.
Do not be afraid to love; without love, life is impossible.”
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
Our cooperative house is dedicated to supporting gentle, powerful men in creating their unique visions of wellness & community. Housemates have the opportunity purchase units of the Men’s Wellness Network, LLC, and thereby become partial owners of the house. Through our living together we also seek to inspire our individual and collective visions of men’s body/mind/spirit wellness, and to heal ourselves and the many communities we belong to and/or care about.
We are men of diverse ages, skills, backgrounds, orientations, and intentions. And we want our home & housemates to support us in living our lives fully—with purpose and joy.
SHARED SPACES & RESOURCES
• gas stove,
• 2 Bathrooms
• Off-street parking (long driveway)
• New EnergyStar Large washer & dryer
• 2 new EnergyStar refrigerators
• huge living room with hard-wood floors,
• lots of storage in attic & basement
• locked shed for bikes & gardening tools
• separate guest room & office to be used by tenants & their out-of-town guests
• wireless high-speed internet
• vegetable garden & large back & side yards with lots of south & east light for gardening,
• optional onsite yoga & meditation classes (separate donation; not included in rent)
• affordable utilities
• comfy TV/stereo/family room
FOOD/MEALS
Each of us cooks one collective vegetarian meal a week for the house. Meat eaters are be free to supplement their portion with chicken/meat/fish. Since some housemates are vegetarian, we have separate cutting boards and frying pans for meat eaters and vegetarians. We purchase staple house foods & dinner food collectively. Average food costs per month range from $65-$85/month and include all dinners and whatever breakfasts & lunches you choose to eat with house staple foods.
UTILITIES
Utilities are not included in rent to inspire conservation by all housemates. They include gas heat, stove, & drier, electric hot water & compact fluorescent bulbs in most all common areas, as well as high-speed internet connections in every room, and a house phone (which housemates can opt out of if they use their cell phone exclusively, except for 5% to allow for house vendor, social event, & candidate communications). We also buy garden supplies & house cleaning supplies collectively. Utilities average $55-$65 in colder months and $35-$45 in warmer months. We don’t have A/C except for 2nd floor bedroom, and fans keep us plenty comfortable.
PETS/SMOKING/DRUGS
Because some housemates have allergies, we can’t allow furry pets or smoking in house. Because of the public visibility & scrutiny of this house we cannot allow any illegal drug use or possession on the property.
BIKES/PARKING
We have a large locked shed for bike storage. For those with cars, we share a long driveway (about 2 off-street parking spaces). We’ll figure out how to divvy up off-street parking once we know housemates’ driving schedules.
DIVERSITY
Please help us to increase the diversity of men who are invited to live in this house by forwarding the attached flier about the house to any men who might be interested. We seek diversity in experience, background, class, race, orientation, intention, and many other factors—because we believe that having many perspectives creates a much richer, more adaptable learning system.
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved
in your heart,
and try to love the questions
themselves.”
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
