Beginner’s Grove:
A Sanctuary for the Woven

Start Here: The Village Audit

I am Diane, and I have stopped lying.

I am 73, and I am on a conscious completion tour. I have spent my life as an edge-dweller, a grief-walker, and a rare integrator of pain and play. But the cost of this level of self-awareness is high: it is quiet, it is heavy, and it is profoundly lonely.

I am alone more than I have ever been. This isn't a cry for pity; it is a report from the front lines of the truth. I have lost interest in being "buoyant" or "loud" to make others comfortable. I am a motherless child who has realized that if we are all going to hell in a handbasket, we might as well slow the descent by holding hands.

I’m moving off the Island of my own self-sufficiency. Not because I’ve "fixed" my loneliness, but because I’m tired of breathing this different air by myself. I’m here for the Altruistic Hedonists, the Neurodivergent Seekers, and the Edge-Travelers who are also tired of the lie.

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Meet Diane (The Village Experimenter)

I am Diane, and I have lost interest in the "Solo-Flight."

For thirty years, I taught women how to be "Wild"—how to be fierce, independent, and self-contained. But at 73, standing in the Montana sun with a dragon by my side, I’ve realized a hard truth: Being "fierce and alone" is just a fancy way of being exhausted.

I am currently standing in the rubble of my own independence. I have $2,000 in emergency cash, a lifetime of original thinking, and no emergency contact on my medical forms. I am "relationally bankrupt," and I’ve decided to stop pretending that’s okay.

I’m not an expert with a 10-step plan. I am a Village Experimenter. I am spending the rest of my days losing interest in the old scripts of the patriarchy that told me "needing people" was a weakness. I’m learning how to bake for a neighbor with cancer, how to offer a "Soft Signal" to a stranger, and how to reclaim my highest authority by being part of a "We." I don’t have a map; I have a lantern and a desire to be woven back into the world.

What is Beginner’s Grove?

A Sanctuary for the Woven.

Beginner’s Grove is not a self-help project. It is a laboratory for Rewilding the Commons. We aren't here to "fix" ourselves so we can finally be worthy of connection. We are here to admit we are already enough—and that "enough" is meant to be shared. This is a space for the boldly curious and the heart-tired to practice the invisible infrastructure of belonging.

Whether we are rewriting our stories from a wiser perspective or practicing "15-minute neighborly moves," we are moving away from the isolated Silo and into the Rewilded Grove. We are learning to be sovereign and connected at the same time.