What to do when you have just had a foot operation and are unable to get outside on the land, cannot walk the dogs, collect the logs or drive. How lucky was I when Ruta and Ram answered my request of coming to help in December. The garden got some help and I learnt about […]
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Michael and Jayme spent ten days at East Reen and in that time they managed to get everything back on track. The garden is totally weeded and the tunnel. I have a log pile under cover for the winter. The sauna room is totally clean and painted. We all had fun too. They […]
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Willi and Norman came to stay for a week, they had contacted me through the helpx website. Both eighteen and having a gap year from their homes in Germany. It was a good week and by the end of their stay I realised they really did know about chopping logs and preparing all the wood […]
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Bring us into the arc of a relaxed mind. How close we live with the raw intimacy of nature yet we begin to drop any worrying when in nature as it doesn’t argue back. Pick up a stick & head out along the road a place to walk for retreat & ones true home, Where […]
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Rob and Cia arrived in their car having driven over from Sweden. I had seen their notice on the woofing site and asked if they might be up to house sit while I was away for two weeks. Such a lovely couple. They arrived a couple of days early and we got along immediately. The […]
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Appearing, disappearing All that lives Particle-hood
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Katie stayed for a couple of weeks and did a great job in both the tunnel and the garden so that they were perfectly prepared for the late planting of vegetables. She painted the stables and did various jobs about the place. She was fun to have around and we had some really good chats. […]
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Discovering the Vast Ocean is the silence of understanding & degree of stillness between a group, who have suspended judgement & bias from the first words uttered, of their enquiry together. The level of silence was so total to make it a vital part of the questioning, where the possibility of being taken out of […]
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We speak in chunks and bits and pieces, like koans they become impermeable. And words worn thin with wrangling from the enemy within, shows that moments really just come and go – And helps us track our way home.
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Here in the field of inquiry We see words anew Not concerning you, me or we Except indirectly pointing to a pain Of learned addictive stuff Loaded minds will never hear the ticking clock Or singing bird. So it goes onto repeat the immediate Experience with all it knows. Let things be without what I […]
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