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From Maple Ridge Bruderhof From East Wind
I think our biggest news (in a way) is the enthusiasm our 14 The situation in East Wind is pretty mellow these days.

& 15 year old children are displaying in the history of social Financially we are doing well thanks to our Nut-Butter
movements throughout the ages. There is a wonderful business which now operates with two lines: one only for

development as far as we are concerned. (OF course this is peanut butter, and the other for the rest of the butters -
helped by enthusiastic teachers who are bringing such macademia, cashew, almond, tahini in all its variations. Our

things across to them). They have recently made a large Hammocks business is slow, but the success of the nut-butter
display in our dining room which includes 25 frames covers it up. The weather is wintery like, as it sould be, some

including many scenes from the Old Testament (Daniel, days snow and cold close to zero farenheit, and the next day
Moses, Elijah among others) and other spiritual leaders such sunny and close to 50 Fahrenheit. Last Sunday we celebrated
as Zoroaster and historical leaders such as Alexander the the 51st birthday of an ex-member, Shakti, by attending her

great (not quite sure why he was chosen by one young sweat-lodge. The weather was nice, and it was very
man). They each have quotes that go with them pointing to rejuvenating to dip into the icy creek after the

the “hidden longing for a future world of brotherhood in steaming lodge with the fiery irons and
stones.
every age and culture”.
Our current visitors all want to join East Wind. They
Every alternate year our children study our Bruderhof/Hutterian history, are about six people and after they join we will once
and each alternative year they study all movements through the again come close to the maximum capacity of our community - seventy

Ages. It is a tremendous thing in our education I think. Perhaps that five members. We are planning to build a new shower facility, which will
best thing is that they are so enthusiastic about it and interview our
include a laundry, sauna, a massage room, a hot-tub and will look nice as
older veterans about their lives and searching’s for brotherhood via well. It is very exciting since the last communal domestic building
Socialism, Communism etc which eventually led them to join the happened about eight years ago. It is needless to say, that the labor and
Bruderhof. Tomorrow they will have a “conference” or 7th & 8th laborers will be from the community itself.
grades at our newest Bruderhof, Bellvale Bruderhof - not far from Kiryas The FEC assembly happened about six weeks ago in East Wind, it was
Joel (a Hassidic village about 30 miles south of here). There will be fabulous to see all the representatives from the various communities
about 100 students and teachers there “camping out” for two days. It sharing the dream of a more Egalitarian World. Out of the assembly we
is extremely cold weather here now, otherwise they might have hiked came with the idea of “salons” - to renovate the vision in our
along the Appalachian; trail which goes almost through our land there. communities we are organizing monthly salons in each community each

You asked: “One thing isn’t clear to me. Is the basic idea behind month dedicated to another topic about the vision that gave birth to our
establishing Danthonia in Australia to get Aussies to join them? Or communities, and maintains them. Tomorrow we are going to hold the first
what? To spread the Bruderhof message?” salon in East Wind talking about our vision of community - each one of us
- whoever comes to the meeting.
Naturally we would love to have people join us and we hope some can On the larger scale, this country is occupied with support and
learn about our message, but we also feel we want to represent the demonstrating against a war on Iraq. The fact that 200,000 demonstrated
brotherly life on another continent which is close to other parts of the against war last Sunday was very good, even though I personally don’t
world who might also be interested. As you may have heard, most think it will stop it from happening, it might influence its damage and
visitors to our Bruderhof movement at the moment seem to come from length.
Korea which has many communes of different kinds - mostly ecological Thank you for contacting me, It was a pleasure to get
groups I think. Do you have any connections to Korea? to know you and your energy for building community.
Martin and Burgel, mjohnson@bruderhof.com Hugs,
10 Hellbrook Ln, Ulster Park, NY, 12487 Aviva Bezilla, avievahus@yahoo.com

East Wind, HC-3 Box 3370 Tecumseh, MO 65760

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