Part 2: The Dilemma: What We Need Vs. "Mini is an Understatement" and Mountains Aren’t Flat…

What we NEEDED to fit up there was a whole retreat center: 4 intern cabins fully equipped so that a stay with us doesn’t feel like an episode of survivor; a pool: for when the river is running high and brown from torrential downpour; a kitchen: for learning and eating together; a classroom; a dorm: for more beds/friends; a waterfall: for dramatic effect; and a spa: for less dramatic effect…

BUT what we had, by way of space, was roughly 13 ft x 65 ft of "usable space" and 10ft of which on either side, of that 65, hung off the side of our mini mountain because well

“mountains aren’t flat” and ours, although little, was no exception. Regardless, even if she had conveniently come with a 13x 65 ft, perfectly flat plateau, everything on our list of needs was most certainly never going to fit in a space that was roughly the size of a jumbo school bus no matter how much emphasis was put on the word JUMBO.

Although there is always initially more space, you have to account for things like walkways and

access between fence lines and after it’s all said and done the sobering reality of how mini our potential actually was, was momentarily troubling.

HOWEVER, this chapter of our lives is about finding the potential in what we already have, creating life where there was none, and creating something out of what, at first glance, might seem like nothing; so this, no matter how small, was 2 things: 1) an opportunity we didn’t have a few weeks ago, and 2) the challenge we signed up for... so IT HAD POTENTIAL , and no matter how small, it represented hope, and we were prepared to continue viewing it as such. So, how do we maximize our mini mountain’s mini potential without compromising her beauty, the view, her spaciousness?…

Well, of all the things desperation might've tried to squeeze onto that tiny ridge

we settled on 2…

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The Decision: 2 Mini Cabins

We settled on 2 mini cabins: one would overlook the farm; the other, would overlook the river and the rolling hills that stand at her back; and any other cabins that we would need (emphasis on NEED) would have to find another corner of our property to reside in.

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