Homestead Mindset

Hello and welcome to the first blog in the series celebrating the launch of the Common Ground Sound Immersive Magazine. This is the new adventure, but really, it’s a revival of the original adventure. I’m now 60 years old, and ten years ago, when I turned 50, I committed the rest of my life to a calling. That calling began by gathering up details of my rich heritage within a farming family of American commoners and telling our story. Through various forms of media, including a multi-media stage show and a 12-song story album, I have been sharing that story.  I’ve worked a decade on this project in what I call “The Friends Family Plan.” Following ten years of groundwork, my team and I are now expanding this mission to a global audience.

The “reboot” and broader reach begins with an online immersive magazine which will remain the heartbeat of everything I do regarding the project going forward. Volume 3 features farmhouses and focuses on a concept I call “Homestead Mindset.” The basic concept of homesteading centers around the belief that generations of family should live together on their own land. That land should be kept in the family to be passed down. The homestead mindset, though, is about hard work in a simplified, quiet life. 

The older I get, the more appealing the idea becomes. It’s about sitting in silence and letting your nervous system defragment from all of life’s troubles. It’s all about falling in love with God and creation on a much deeper level. It’s about growing herbs and vegetables, and then slowly cooking for loved ones from a place way down in your heart few ever have the privilege of experiencing. It has become my (long-game) dream to buy a mini-farm west of Nashville — a place to retreat, and write, and live, and love others well. I share a little more about this dream in the Farmhouses article. 

The immersive magazine, in my opinion, is best experienced in a quiet space with a cup of hot coffee or tea in hand with a good set of earbuds or bluetooth speaker. It’s designed to be a brief escape from all the distractions of life. I invite you to flip through the pages and I pray you enjoy your time in it. Click here to view Volume 3. 

Love to all, 

Jill