La Lune Nette aux Lunettes

La Lune Nette aux Lunettes -

"Clear moon through Glasses"

WUHAAAA - - - - WE FINALLY MADE IT TO FRANCE - - - - WUHAAAA

La Lune Nette, the first French project we visit... As it happened already before - getting to some place we expected this one to be quite a big community, but again we met here only 3 persons: Silvayn, Valentin und Natascha.


Silvayn lives here since the beginning of the project - 12 years. For quite a long time now he lives in his tepee - really comfortable one, with walls from wood, warm interiour... It's size is original, adepted from the native indians -
seven meters diameter. In these kind of tepees whole family used to live in a past and it really is pretty spacious shelter.
Natascha lives here with her son Valentin, whom she schools at home.



As there is no community left but still they want to live at this beautiful place, they plan to have a living cooperative soon. And we hope they will, as this place is amazing and can host lot more people, sharing beautiful surrounding with river, lakes and waterfalls.



In Silvayns understanding there are four levels of living together.
First: Tribes. Sharing everything, closest form of living together.
Second: Community. Sharing many things, but everyone has space for oneself.
Third: Cooperative/Ecovillage. Sharing ideas, but with lots of space for everyone personally.
Fourth: Society. Living seperately, maybe as familiy.

As he figured out that for Lune Nette the system of community is too close and probably won't work again... He now works to prepare everything for creating a living cooperative here, which means to him that everyone has an own flat, people might work "outside", there are some common ideas, but no duties, unregular meetings etc.

Still, it's a nice place - they were welcoming us warmly, giving us food and warm shelter as well as exciting stories and knowledge. Such as the idea of organising a community by living with the four elements.
In former times, when the community had 15 people, they were living like this.
Every 28 and a half days each person chooses one element out of five possible.
Five? Well, fire, earth, air, water. The fifth "element" in this system contains all elements.
As for every element there are certain activities and duties (to play music, light fire, pick fruits and vegetables, make candles etc.), the fifth takes care for the others, kind of holds them together. You could call him the guardian of the elements. Lets say, the fire elementh, who is responsible for preparing meal, can't cook for himself as in this style of living no one does anything for himself, so that the 5th element makes food for him. How oposit is that from nowdays society principles (me, me, me behaving) and selfish instincts...?!
To us this elementh acording organisation system seems to be really efficiant - the great elementary thought is to move, to be in change, to go with the flow of life, of the elements. Not to keep one kind of jobs, but to have a wide range of different kinds; to provide a wide range of learning opportunities for everyone.

We didn't stay for long time, but the time we spent there was great - one afternoon we had lots of fun with Valentin, Nataschas son. We had some great jam session with him, he had funn playing with Sani, Peter baked some nice (chocolate-and coffee) bread with him...

All in all this is a place definitely worth to be visited. The surrounding is quainte, the atmosphere in general is very gentle, friendly and warm. Lots of things (tepees, lake, stunning river with waterfalls and old ruins, vegetable garden) and ideas, inspiration waits to be found.


Finally on Wednesday we watched the clear (full) moon through glasses...




Sani & Anna