Groundwaters started as a thought that people are creative at heart.  We need to express ourselves to others in our community and share stories, art, and visions for a better world.  This idea manifested itself originally in a magazine published in the West Lane County region of Oregon. We hope this web site helps extend it through the introduction of visual arts and other mediums, to a wider audience.

If you are reading this page, you may share the vision we have attempted to express in print and online, and perhaps you may wish to know how to contribute to the Groundwaters concept.  After all, it is voluntary participation in a community that truly defines it as such.

How can you help us?

Share your knowledge and what moves you. Write a how-to article, or a work of fiction. Send your artwork. If you wish to contribute, make sure your work fits within our Guidelines. This site is meant to be a place where people can come together and be inspired.

Write for Groundwaters.  Interview a neighbor, a child or an older person about their favorite books, experiences or interests.  Help communicate and build a sense of community by encouraging others to share writings, drawings or recipes.

The most valuable contribution you can make, however, is to undertake the work of your own heart. Groundwaters began with the efforts of a single dedicated woman who photocopied her invitation and its responses, and distributed copies by hand to wherever she found that would accept them; and that work grew and was embraced over time.  You can accomplish anything. When we give to others, we find enrichment in an endless variety of ways.

Please volunteer in your community. Work with children, or the elderly, the handicapped or abused. Rescue animals. Be a Big Brother or Sister. There are unlimited opportunities to help at a grassroots level.

Encourage someone every day. Offer your special talents to others. Exalt your fellow man and woman - this is the Groundwaters concept. Please, help it spread and nourish us all.