Intentional Spontaneous Gathering - South Minneapolis

The heart of gathering in the morning is simple: we meet in the park, sit together, and let the day begin in generous company.

There’s no program. No agenda. Someone might bring a thermos, someone else fruit. Sometimes we talk, sometimes we walk, sometimes we just sit. Sometimes someone pulls out an instrument, and maybe it turns into a song. The park gives us enough to notice—the way the light changes, the air moving, a plane passing overhead.

It doesn’t need to be more complicated than that. The point is to show up, to be present, to remember that connection doesn’t always need so much planning.

This is a space for ease and curiosity. Who knows what the morning will bring? It fully depends on who shows up and what do they want, really want. Let the gathring be defined by an expectation for surprise.

Now. Come. Sit.

We gather because it feels good. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. Not philosophy, not ritual. Just the truth of how humans are built.

Spontaneity matters because life doesn’t wait. The fine weather doesn’t last forever. The good mood, the joke, the song, the story that wanted to be told—they pass if we don’t catch them. Gathering in the moment is how we grab a piece of life before it slips away.

And the thing is, it doesn’t take much. A cup of tea. A hand of cards. Folding laundry while someone else keeps you company. It’s not about grand gestures. It’s about weaving the fabric back together in tiny threads.

The deeper truth: loneliness is not natural. It’s a side effect of walls too thick, schedules too full, pride too heavy. Our ancestors weren’t saints—they just didn’t have the option of being alone all the time. They bumped into each other, ate together, sang together because it was the default. We have to choose it now. That’s harder, but it’s also more beautiful, because every choice is an act of love.

Spontaneity isn’t reckless. It’s trust. Trust that showing up half-formed is still enough. Trust that the world will meet us halfway if we give it the chance. Trust that the people around us are hungry for the same thing we are: something real, something alive, something unpolished.

At the core: life wants to be shared. The fire wants people around it. The soup wants to be ladled into more than one bowl. The story wants ears. The song wants a voice to carry it. The silence wants company.

This isn’t a movement. It isn’t a system. It’s a way of remembering who we are. And the remembering happens not in words, but in the small courage of knocking, of calling, of saying now?

The deepest thing is also the simplest:
We can belong.
We remember how it feels.
We just need to keep finding our way back.

Now. Come. Sit.