I realize now that when I first conceived of Marion's Ledge by asking "where do I want to spend my time and who do I want to spend it with?" - that the place and people I envisioned were intended to be an antidote to "boredom". Timothy Ferris points out in The 4-Hour Workweek, and no doubt others before him, that "the opposite of happiness is boredom."
To the degree that a charged, active and engaged community is a goal in Marion's Ledge, it-is-so only because we hold it as true that such a community is an antidote/remedy/panacea to boredom.
Boredom has no foothold when we are challenged and where there is variety. It is by addressing these two issues that Marion's Ledge seeks to provide that relief to boredom.
1) The building itself should answer a challenge to be superbly green (responsible) and imaginatively creative. In expressing an excellent answer to that challenge, the physical environment will testify that we can meet challenges in a wonderful way.
2) Our staff will be friendly, engaged & will bring their own challenges and discoveries to share with our guests.
3) Our guests should never feel they know just what they'll find at Marion's Ledge. They may have explored the building and visited many times, but by bringing in traveling guests as well as the community (to meet, work and present), they will find an ever changing landscape of activity and engagement.
This landscape will in its unpredictable nature offer variety, and hopefully that variety will in turn offer rich opportunities for engagement, and that engagement will present challenges.
Though these efforts we hope to make Marion's Ledge a uniquely stimulating and vibrant place to be.