Residents Call
Live, Work, and Play at Starland
Contact Steve now!
We're looking for someone who is self-sustained,
enthusiastic to serve Starland, and who can perform the duties necessary
for the basic care and upkeep of Starland.
In return, Starland can offer a relatively inexpensive
place to live and to be a part of a grateful community. Are you in?
Here are the details...
Resident Basic Requirements:
-Must be enthusiastic to help Starland grow as a positive and
spiritual institution.
-Must be in excellent health and able to perform normal physical duties.
-Must be clean, sober, a non-smoker, and non-drug user -not even
marijuana.
-Must be able to pay a small rent to cover your portion of utilities.
-Must be able to pay for all of your own food and personal necessities.
-Must have transportation.
Pluses:
-Possession of knowledge of health and well-being.
-Neatness, cleanliness, and a sense of aesthetics.
-A conscientious attitude.
-Mechanical,
handy-man, or construction skills.
-Social skills, charm, and wit.
Other resident details:
As a resident, you'll find the atmosphere very relaxed and easy-going in
as far as how you wish to contribute. You are free to come and go, take
extended vacations as you like as long as there is someone to fill in for
you during your absences. Unfortunately we cannot yet completely support a
resident, though we hope to in the future. So it is not free to stay at
Starland. Perhaps in time, with your help, Starland can grow to fully
support a resident... or two. We encourage your personal growth and
creativity, Starland can definitely offer you this.
Please Contact Steve immediately if you
are interested.
Teach,
Share, or Facilitate
Human
Services
Health, Growth, Learning, & Well-Being.
You
are invited to share your talent and knowledge about anything
whether you are a professional or a non-professional. E-mail us to find
out how.
You may optionally donate your offering to Starland
or make it a commercial opportunity for yourself as well. Either is
welcome.
Examples:
-Drum-Circle Leaders & Drummers
-Tarot card readings
or teaching how to read Tarot cards
-Massage or teaching how to Massage
-Sweat Lodge
-Reiki
-Any healing art, game playing, touch therapies
-Workshops & Playshops
-Arts & Crafts
-Metaphysics
-Sciences, any skills
You can offer to offer just what you know.
Please use Starland as an outlet to share.
Many people are knowledgeable in healing arts such as
touch and massage therapy, and even herbs.
Starland can be a spa or retreat center for self-renewal and a place to
practice nurturing, building the human spirit, and raising consciousness.
Services & skills:
Volunteer your time, with these skills:
--We need a good PR person, to promote Starland.
--Help us plan an upcoming event, or facilitate an event--Contact us
for details.
--Docent. Lead nature hikes and tours around Starland.
--Landscape maintenance (raking and pruning, as well as planting and
caring for low-moisture plants)
--Tractor and Operator, to resurface our driveway.
Thanks to our members:
Over the past few months (May-August, 2006), Starland has
welcomed many new helpers, and some generous donors.
We thank our residents:
We thank Jeff, for bringing us his talent and skills as a carpenter, and
painter,
also as a donor of a washer, a dryer, and a gas range with oven.
We thank Sean, for his expertise as a computer "whiz" and for his
dedication in creating a database for Starland. And recent updating of the
website.
We thank Mohabee for his knowledge about the desert, his ceramic art and
paintings, and for administering Starland over the last nine years.
Thanks to our Members:
Thanks, Hollis, for all the donated furnishings, monetary donations, the
help with our many projects, and for his presence at Starland always.
Thanks, Robert, for the new TV, and the photographs of Starland.
Thanks, Matrix, for the continuous work on the Starland Website, and for
the sofas and other furniture donated over the years.
Thanks, Jesse, for being our substitute caretaker this summer.
Thanks, John H., for leading workshops and for the monetary contributions.
Thanks, Steve F., for finding us new residents, and for spiritual
leadership.
Thanks, Les, for bookkeeping skills.
Thanks, John P., for leading massage weekend workshops
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Some on-going projects:
For the Muscular and Brawny...
Check our volunteer Work & Play Weekend
event
Top on the list...
1) A cabin.
We are proposing to build a cabin just on the other side of the Vista Arroyo
at the Starland path to the "outback." This way we can add an indoor toilet and
coldwater sink. Three or more cabins are also being planned. Plans for the first
new cabin are on their way by November 30th, 2008
2) A huge storage and workshop area.
We will be clearing and leveling a huge area of Starland to build a
"utilities" and storage area where "things" can be worked on and stored away
from the "better" parts of Starland. Right now, we're cluster-fucked. :-)
We need...
-Someone handy with a road grader or
Bob-cat tractor.
-cement work
-fencing
-shed/building construction
In the Mean Time
we need help with...
-Move and clean-up behind the fence and Pine Cabin. This work requires
gloves, and good work shoes, for safety. There are many heavy, oblong objects to
move and place in a neat stack. We seek sorters and handlers!
-Build a hinged cover over the septic tank. Simple carpentry skills needed.
-Removal of Above-Ground Electric Conduit Behind Green Cabin
Stuff -Physical
Appliances
(Must be fairly new, in working condition):
Refrigerator (for Main Hall) must be energy-efficient.
Gas Clothes Dryer -propane only
Dishwasher -built-in style
Insulation Materials -for shower room
Shop-Vac
Large
Screen TV
with "line-in" connectors
Microwave oven
Transportation for any of these items, from where it is, to
Starland. Oh yes, we know about a used solar water heater, located in
Glendale, CA. Please contact us, if you can provide a pick-up truck to
drive it from Glendale to Starland.
STARLAND'S WISH LIST:
A good, sucking, used vacuum cleaner (upright preferred, but we'll
accept a canister-style vacuum). Bookcases for our library, and
benches, for the Main Hall. A working, "energy star"
refrigerator/freezer, for the Main Hall.
Contact us, prior to bringing any donated items to Starland.
Electronic Gear:
P-3 or newer Desktop
Computer, or Laptop Computer, in good condition, and
network cards
Printer, compatible with Win XP.
Hardware and Landscape Items: 12' x 12" red
pavers
Rakes, Shovels, etc...
Construction -Misc:
--paint roller covers (medium), roller trays, and related tools.
--Solar Powered Malibu Lights to illuminate the driveway at nigh
Household -Misc: Bookcases
Chest of drawers
Kitchen Cabinets--Contact us
for dimensions.
Folding banquet tables (6' is preferable), and Steel folding
chairs
Folding massage table
Door mats (about 12)
Flooring for the Main Hall.
Heavy Patio Furniture.
Area Rugs
Pellet Stove
Propane Space Heater
Please Contact us
before delivering any of the above items, for approval, and to arrange a
delivery date and time.
Donations
Click on the
button above to make a secure donation via PayPal.
Thank You!
We appreciate your support! Your generous donation will help us build,
maintain, and repair Starland facilities, and also help pay Starland's
operating expenses.
Contact us!
*Donations are not tax deductible as Starland is only a "not for
profit" organization.
Starland Industry
Starland is always looking for other ways to support
itself and to help fund other projects.
We would love to have some sort of "in-house industry"
that is artistic in nature... something like ceramics, we already have an
electric kiln, but we haven't been able to hook it up yet.
Perhaps someone could head an other art or craft industry
for Starland.
We are also in the process of giving workshops of our own,
Mohabee wants to teach ceramics.
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