Making
Room.
Dwelling
Richly.
Through our homes, neighborhoods, and city.
An invitation to
Live lifeshared.rooted.known.purposed.unhurried.together.
By making room and dwelling richly.
Through ourhomes,neighborhoods,and city.
It starts with a table and a few extra chairs. Weeknight dinners, slow Sundays, kids underfoot, and a door that opens before you knock twice.
Rooted in Lincoln Square and Albany Park. Learning the names on the block, carrying soup across the street, and staying long enough to become a regular.
Our hope for Chicago: households across the city doing the same small things, until the whole place feels a little less lonely.
Strangers become kin.
Scattered lived come back together.
Where the name comes from
menō
μένωGreek · verb
to abide
To stay close, the way a branch stays on the vine.
to dwell
To make a home among people, and let them make one with you.
to remain
To stay put long enough for a place, and its people, to change you.