Mention has been made that the new Monastery is taking shape in our workshop, inviting folks to visit and comment if so inclined. PLEASE do!
I've put in walkways so you can get around, as the workshop has a somewhat limiting footprint. Also please be tolerant of doorways that you can't walk through... yet. Some you can, but others are awaiting linking and subsequent removal of physics which will allow passage. Always keep in mind that this is a work in progress, and many things remain unfinished... doors, windows, textures, and detail fittings. Still, I hope you will enjoy a visit. This project is hugely inspiring to me, and my energy for it is really unbounded.
The monastery itself is greatly inspired by a place I once visited in RL, St Mary's Abbey on the tiny isle of Iona in Scotland. Ancient legend has it that in 563 AD the future saint Columba sailed to this spot from Ireland, founded the monastery, and set out to Christianize the Scots. Later, in the 1200's, the Abbey was built as a Benedictine establishment. Nowadays, the Abbey is rebuilt and is the spiritual home of the ecumenical Iona Community, a word-wide "dispersed Christian ecumenical community working for peace and social justice, rebuilding of community and the renewal of worship".
With Mizou's help, I am revisualizing this place as place of spiritual harmony. My personal vision, which I share with Mizou, is a harmony of balance between the male and female aspects, human life and all of the natural world. This is the underlying vision, but on this vision builds goals such as are embodied in our community and in other communities such as the Iona Community. So perhaps the new Monastery can be a home not just for spirit and peace, but for living and community activities as well.
I hope you enjoy it. Please don't hesitate to comment, good or bad.
Sudane..........................