If you could start a new business right now, what would it be?
Good morning from the Grove. Coffee beside me, trees just visible in the morning light outside, and today’s prompt has me imagining what I’d build if I could start over. I don’t have to think long.
I’d find a piece of cozy mountain woods and build a little village of ten or twelve tiny cabins. Each one would have its own personality. A witchy cabin. A cabin for book people. A few inspired by the local stories and history. I’d want guests to walk in and feel like they’d found the one that was waiting for them.
There’d be primitive campsites tucked among the trees, too. Dogs would be welcome, of course. I can picture people bringing the whole crew, setting up camp, and letting the dogs sniff out every interesting leaf and visitor.
Then there’s the bonfire. That’s where the village comes together. Themed weekends, weekly storytelling, music around the fire. Some nights somebody has a story to tell. Some nights somebody brings a guitar. And some nights you just sit there with your dog at your feet and listen to the woods.
I keep thinking about people coming back every year. They’d have a favorite cabin, or a favorite place to sit by the fire. Maybe they’d bring friends along, and by the end of the weekend those friends would be talking about coming back, too.
That’s the part I can see most clearly: the fire going, dogs under the chairs, familiar faces among the new ones. A little village in the mountains that slowly becomes part of people’s stories—and then, somehow, part of who they are. They’d leave with the promise to return, carrying the warmth of the fire with them. And when they came back, the cabins, the trees, and the people around the bonfire would be waiting—not like visitors, but like they’d finally come home.
Leave a comment