Warm and Homey Eco-Sanctuary Seeks Open-Hearted Third Roomie (Dufferin/Davenport)

Dear future roommate, We are two old-ish friends who have been visioning and trying to craft a very particular home for ourselves. We have our space now, and, our third friend having gone on to live with his girlfriend, we are looking for a new roommate to see the vision through, to join our lease from Jan. 1 through the end of October, and hopefully beyond! Both of us are spiritual folks, but very grounded in this world. We've done our youthful time of blue-sky traveling, eyes wide open to the world, and have both returned home to set roots and build what we found. Borrowing from Thoreau's Walden - we've spent years crafting castles in the air, and now it's time to start putting foundations under them. Both of us are in graduate school - Amy for holistic psychotherapy, Jason for herbal medicine, and soon to be anthropology as well. We're more interested in nourishment than excitement, more interested in comfort than in thrills, more in the later half of our 20s than the earlier. We want the kind of fun that builds alongside deep wellness, rather than see-sawing back and forth at its expense. Both of us are engaged in long personal healing journeys as well. Each of us, in our own way, has come out of a lifestyle that included pushing ourselves way too hard, and have found sweet solace in discovering ourselves as rather sensitive beings, and embracing and loving that, and eventually starting to kick ass with it too. The calm we have sought inside ourselves, we're now seeking to externalize into our home. We are crafting Zen space. It will be full of sweet laughter, levity and play, good downtempo soulful LP's; it will be quiet and serene, a place of retreat. A place where the vibe naturally starts turning down as the sun sets, so that by the time 9:30 or 10:00 hits, there is space and excitement for sleep. Sometimes we go out and party too. But the home itself has a default vibe that lives on the solar cycle, and invites us to join it. It needs to be quiet, not in a way that feels like a deprivation, but in a way that throbs gently, thickly, with the heartbeat of the earth. Communication is key. We invest in social hygiene - having the courage and discipline to take ownership over the energy that we're putting into the space. Doing so helps each of us not to take one another's moods and fluctuations personally, but rather, learn over time how to recognize them, and what kind of support we each need and want to navigate through them. We feel that this kind of blend of loving support and accountability gives each of us space and structure to be emotionally honest in our own lives in the house, and therefore to be able to relax, and grow. We're invested in learning how to engage at a real emotional depth without spending unwanted hours in emotional processing. And we think we're starting to get it right. We want to be able to move from joyful playful levity into internality and silence and back again, with practiced ease. There's a lot of love he