This post (along with a similar message for our email group) is meant to share what is at the heart of the Linkery, so we can all help keep that from getting buried under the noise that may surround us.

We’ve been at our new location for nearly 3 months now, and trying to do a beautiful job with it all has been exhausting, sometimes dispiriting, and sometimes quite joyous. Some days things go amazingly well, and some days we’ve struggled with it — if you’ve come here a few times you’ve probably experienced both. I am grateful to be part of a group of people, including my co-workers and you, that are contributing their gifts to this project.

It is a high-profile endeavor. You can read a lot about us now in the newspapers and magazines and even more on the web. Our culture loves to categorize, describe and evaluate things. I appreciate the attention, but prefer to focus on sharing our intentions. These are what we give of ourselves when we are here.

Our Linkery intentions are group intentions, because we are a group, and they evolve because we change with time. I can’t speak comprehensively for the Linkery — nobody could, exactly — but I can share a few elements that I think bring a lot of us here. That is, in concert with you, we come here to:

* Make space to experience the joy and belonging that can arise in each other’s company, both at the table and also through food, which carries the spirit of the people who have shaped it.

* Explore the essence of different types of food and drink, raised or made with love by people with compatible intentions.

* Maintain a community facility offering both a selection of handmade dinners with beverage for 25 bucks or so, and also a wide range of very unique and rich culinary experiences.

* Serve a pre-industrial consciousness which values people more highly than yields.

This is a long-term endeavor and we expect it to develop slowly and with great depth. Thank you for cultivating it with us.