Grant and Paige: Our circle of hearts, which beat in rapturous love.

Friends, Family, and fellow human beings of which I have not met yet,

My name is Grant David Whitaker and I would like to share a story. A story that will never end. First, I would like to emphasize I did not start this story. I merely picked up an already opened book and started writing into it. The story will make much more sense later on when my vision becomes more clear.

I was born profoundly DEAF. All I see is the silence of all Creation. Growing up I came from humble and innocent beginnings, my authenticity was doubted many times, or rather my silent voice was not heard my awareness was not being seen or acknowledged. I was tormented by my own existence and mind. I misunderstood myself, the infinity of our inner-silence, and the powers of Being. I became depressed. Life was chaotic and meaningless with all the mayhem happening to me. My existence was doubted for far too long to the point where I was forced to grow up as a being dominated by my own ego, in order to survive. The innocence of my childhood was overtook by the harsh reality of the "World" out there. My afflictions led me to consciously understand my self , my ego, and all the illusions and karmic strings created by the egoic mind. I then saw the Grace of God, the Geometry of Divinity, through the love of another human, my beautiful Lady, ..Paige. We met at a VERY young age and we grew up together. This lady allowed me to see into the mind of another human, over time I watched ourselves develop into One Love. This connection helped me understand that there is and only will ever be unconditional Love.

One day, I got out of a complicated and corrupt "matrix" called the educational system, this system desensitizes geniuses. I was a young boy that was 18 years of age and voluntarily decided to go homeless so I could strip myself naked to the core of my being, as well as stay around Paige so I could help her finish her senior year of high school by being there, my grandparents who I lived with my whole life decided to go back to Illinois from Maryland, so I did not exactly have a place to stay. Something was pressuring me to detach myself from everything. I later found out what that Something was, it was merely the Universal Consciousness Entity, the One that dominates all Creation. It put its gaze on me while I was innocently stripping myself naked to my being, open to all the vulnerabilities of the corruption out there. It also put its gaze on those who I love and for everyone else that I meet, because I asked it to. This is so I could not be the only one basking in such unconditional Love. I met so many people over the course of my time being homeless. I saw how Love is consciousness and matter and energy in its entirety. I conquered so many illusions through Love alone.

There is a certain illusion I conquered that I would like to share today and how this conquest led me to this very moment. The illusion of the nature of the duality between Fate and Free will. It is because of Fate we have Free Will. It took me a long time to wrestle with this. I realized that there is only the All-Mother, our precious planet Earth that supports us, she did not come to exist with our human-will. I realized our Mother gave birth to us. She is Powerful and we must respect Her. I saw that while being homeless that no one respects her or acknowledges her existence collectively in the same manner as how people from certain religions acknowledge each other.

If a man's heart is away from Nature and the All-Mother, it hardens so does the Ego. This separation from nature creates individuality. I realized that we all have the power to end our individuality.

This has led me onto a huge scientific journey. I decided that the best and only option to create a better Earth was to become a "farmer" or rather a Perfect Master of Earth and Being, and basically develop an innovative drive that cannot be stopped just like how Evolution cannot be stopped. I realized I had to grow my own food and help others return to nature before anything else could make sense, such as Space and the Universe.. It is similar to the idea of building a bridge but if you don't finish the bridge, you cannot drive across it. We need to have each human return to nature before we can transcend Earth and become a space-faring civilization. The universe is patiently waiting for our wits to be sharper. All 7+ BILLION people have to be on the same frequency and on the same page for a one world holistic government to work. I have often encountered people who said this is impossible. But I noticed that those who say this are saying this out of their ego. They do not know enough unconditional Love to be able to live with other people collectively for they do not understand themselves. This unconscious suffering makes me suffer along with many other individuals who know this too but do not know what to do about said suffering.

I decided I had to do something about this system of misunderstanding and pain. I knew what it was like to be depressed and lost. I knew all the illusions I had to conquer and how hard they were to overcome. I knew I had to share the experiences I had so my self healing path could eventually be a self healing path for many others. This led me to a bigger quest and vision with the help of a few individuals. All of these experiences and realizations have led me to the creation of an entity called, Paragon Sustainability. Paragon's end game goal is to be the epitome of Sustainability and revolutionize the industries of construction and real estate to create the future of Earth. Paragon is looking to allow people to return to nature with a step by step like ease, and still be able to work collectively in their local areas but still be connected to the greater world. The phrase "Think Globally, Act Locally" would be a good fit for this explanation. This will allow people to still be able to partake in society.

♪Paragon Sustainability♪

For the past 4 years since graduating from high school and that so called complicated matrix, I have been learning about permaculture and bio-dynamic farming from books, the internet, and beautiful human beings. I am now 22 years of age and am well versed in a lot of areas such as the science of consciousness, methods of living, and much more.

A few months ago from now, Paige and I decided to leave San Diego, CA so we could roadtrip to North California via Pacific Highway One, with a good friend and future Paragon member, Cody Reidy. During our trip up north, we finally met a beautiful young lady of which I kept in touch with online for a while, her name is Gowan, and she runs a nice sized business-farm(Fortunate Farm) near the coast and she allowed us to stay there for a night. While staying there and seeing the beautiful conditions of her farm, the contentedness of her heart and family, we realized we had to move to North California immediately so we could go to school and become a part of the future of farming and, of course, the oneness of the beauty up here.

Gowan, was a HUGE catalyst that set off our new chapter on Our Road to Paragon. She is the one that referred us to a certain school that I have been putting my interest on the past 4 months up until July. Fast forward a few months to now, we are attending an amazing and new premier agricultural school that teaches the many differences of old and modern agricultural philosophies and helps individuals pursue their dreams.

♪Paragon Sustainability♪

This is our dream in progress. You may follow us and see how Paige and I are doing in school and how our members are doing while Paragon is being birthed. We are now diving into a new scientific journey. Learning how soil science works and how to grow the food you normally eat everyday. Over the course of the next 4 months I will be blogging about my learnings with hopes of motivating other people to invest in themselves so they too can return to nature and do what we are doing!

Exactly a week ago on Saturday, July 9, 2016, I arrived at the Grange School of Adaptive Agriculture(GSAA) which is located in North California, situated between two beautiful towns that go by the name of Ukiah and Willits.  I have been here for a week now, so far.

(The entrance to the Grange Farm School situated on Ridgewood Ranch)

(The Mission Statement: The Grange Farm School aims to train the next generation of farmers to address challenges of farm business success, community food security, and ecological stewardship. The Farm school is building on the rich agricultural heritage of Mendocino County and the Grange in its diverse and holistic educational programming for farmers, aspiring farmers, and youth.)

I will be posting about my activities weekly along with beautiful pictures and updates on what kind of knowledge I have acquired that week. I hope you stay in tune with us!!

With Divine Love,

Grant and Paige

Kelsey: Walk Softly in the Direction of your Dreams

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

I have too much STUFF! So starting Sunday I decided to minimize my life in the fashion of "The Minimalists" Basically I'm working my way into a "Packing Party" where you box up everything you own and put it in one room (...if it fits). As you need things you go and get them out of the box. These things are the things you keep. At the end of a set amount of time whatever remains boxed up gets donated to a thrift shop or charity. Sight unseen. If you needed it, you'd have used it already. If you see it... you may be tempted to save it for that 'just in case' feeling.

So on Monday after work I decided to start with my disastrous kitchen. I'm sort of wishing I'd taken a before photo, but I'll be honest, the embarrassment kept me from snapping that particular moment in time. So I'll just tell you what my kitchen was like. I work a minimum of 68 hours a week. I'm tired by the time I get home so I don't always feel like cleaning. I lived alone with my dog. There's no one to complain at me for being a slob... so the dirty dishes had piled up in the sink... and on the counter... and the stove... on the bar... and complete disclosure, I even had dirty dishes in a box on the floor when I couldn't balance any more on the counter. The whole house reeked of rotting produce and the flies were enough to drive you insane. It was filthy, disgusting, and I couldn't stand myself!


So I brought in encouragement in the form of Chris who is a fantastic cheer leader. I brought in extra space, my Mom's adjustable folding table... and I emptied the dishes from the sink to the folding table so I could begin washing them. THREE hours later I finished washing dishes. It took me nearly another hour to box everything up and move it to my living room. My packing party's room of requirement if you will. After that I cleared off one other counter which was filled to overflowing with pyrex dishes and small appliances. Then I went to bed satisfied with what I had accomplished in one evening.

The CLEANEST I've seen my kitchen since move in day.

This morning I had to work but after I returned home I dug right in where I'd left off and took nearly an hour and a half to clear off the bar height counter and the shelves above the stove. I then worked my way through the cabinets under the counter and emptied the drawers... all into boxes.

I still need to remove the (organic) cleaning supplies from under the sink but I'm saving all that mess for last so I can easily access anything I need to clean up the surfaces that were buried in the junk and stuff that's been ruling my life since September.

After achieving my cleaning goal for the day I tackled my physical activity goal for the day by going on a hike in the woods. It was beautiful and I couldn't help but smile as I walked softly so as to not startle the deer, squirrels, chipmunks, and wild turkeys. I could hear water running, my heart beating, my lungs sucking air. And in the moments in the deepest of quiet when I stood still in wonder... I could hear the soft popping sound of growing trees... almost like the soft pitter patter of rain on leaves.

Peek - A - Boo, I see you!

The part of the trail where I first heard the trees growing.

I'd never seen this flower before, but I thought it was B-E-A-U-Tiful!

I was saddened by the other hikers though. Loudly talking on cell phones, smoking and then leaving cigarette butts on the trail, running down the trail startling ME as well as the wildlife. There was even one girl walking with her headphones so loud I could clearly hear the lyrics to the rap music she was listening to. Rap and wildlife... ok then. :D

Fungus on a fallen tree, thought it looked weird and cool :D

Stairway to Heaven?

On my way back to my car I had a beautiful encounter with three deer who were aware but not afraid of me. It was so incredible I can't do the feeling justice in words, signs or interpretive dance!

Eventually the fireflies came out and snapped me to the reality that it was already past my bed time and I'd not eaten any supper. So I drove home.

So now here I sit at a completely empty counter with a freshly scrubbed floor softly reflecting the light from the sink... the empty, wiped clean and dry sink... waiting on my supper to bake on the one cookie sheet that's been recovered from a box. This is going to be fun. I think the next 'room' to attack will be the hall and closet. But that's another post for a different day.


Good Night and God Bless.

Kelsey: ASL, Research, Dreaming, Preparing

Hi! My name is Kelsey.

Smokey, Nellie and Me!

 I'm the fourth member of "Paragon Sustainability" which is a project that's just in the germination stage of growing into a reality. This Blog is a journal of how each of us members has their own journey and life changes as we come together on this grand adventure.

My cousin, Grant, first broached this topic to me on August 18, 2015 as we were discussing the direction in which our country was headed. Having worked several years on an organic farm, at a farmers market, and with a bachelors degree in design I agreed that it was something we could combine our skills and should try to bring this to life.

Fast forward to June 2016.

Grant and I had talked in depth about different options, ideas, locations, members, plans, etc. We realized there was one tiny little hiccup in our communication skills. You see, all of our talking was done by text messages and facebook messages because... Grant is deaf. I'm hearing. See the hiccup? It's a hiccup not the end of the road... we have VIDEO CHAT! (Thank you technology!)

Grant reminding me what "Water" is.

So I'm learning ASL long distance with the help of Grant as well as Grant's great friend and fellow Paragon member, Chris. It's left me with cramped fingers, headaches, a smiling face, painful cheeks and sore abs from laughter. Learning ASL is awesome! It's beautiful! I'm slightly bilingual as is having taken Spanish classes and traveling to Mexico about a year ago. But learning ASL has been totally different than learning Spanish. It's not all about the grammar and pronunciation... it's like learning a dance to a song in your head. Your conversation... what you want to say... that's the song. ASL is the interpretive dance that makes the other person in the conversation 'hear' and understand that same song. It's beautiful... and I'm horrible at it! :D (God love Grant and Chris with their patience!)

Meet Chris! 

Aside from learning a new language and making new friends I've been reading as much as I can about permaculture, minimalism, getting out of debt, and how to move across the country in a car.

First step in my personal adventure is to pay off my credit card and car which will officially bring me entirely out of debt. Dave Ramsey talks about women having a security gland in their bodies. For me my security gland is doing flip flops about moving from Illinois to California so my compromise to myself is I won't go anywhere until I'm totally debt free and have a safety net of money in the bank. So currently I'm working three jobs and living of the proverbial rice and beans diet as every spare dime goes to debt reduction.

Second Step that I'm slightly overlapping step one with is reduction of physical belongings. Like I mentioned I will be moving across the country in a car. A tiny bright red Ford Fiesta to be exact. With all my belongings and my fur baby, Nellie, sitting shotgun.

Sell, donate, recycle, garbage. In that order. I've started sorting out what I'll be taking with me, and what I'll be getting rid of. I never noticed how much STUFF I have! I've scanned all my paper files to my computer and burned the paper copies.

Now I'm working through my furniture and misc. art supplies left over from college. I'm selling everything I can on facebook garage sale sites and on craigslist. I'm starting now and hoping by the time it actually comes time to move I won't have a load of stuff left to get rid of.

Once I work my way through furniture and Art supplies I"m going to attack the mountain of clothes and shoes. I plan to basically become a minimalist to make my life easier as a whole. Less physical clutter, clearer mind, less to take care of and less to have to clean. I'm lazy when it comes to cleaning. I just hate it.

So here I sit staring at a mountain of laundry and an avalanche of dishes as I day dream about beautiful California and all the exciting adventure that await me there.