It is Friday
It is Friday, and my turn to write a blog post. It is less than 48 hours since I arrived back from the monastic sangha gathering at Shasta Abbey in the US and I am not quite with it yet. … Continue...
View ArticleNo Post This Week
I’m very sorry to say that I’ve not written a post this week. It would seem the muse has fallen into a hole! Hopefully this is a temporary condition.
View ArticleAutumn Equinox
The autumn equinox took place on 22nd September, when day and night were of equal length. The North Pole then began to tilt away from the sun and our nights in the northern hemisphere will continue to...
View ArticleConstancy Within Change
Recently I adopted a Prayer Plant and being around it as day passes into evening and then night I’ve got to know its schedule. The leaves rotate to a vertical position towards the end of the day then...
View ArticleShining the Light Within
So the clocks went back last Saturday. We appreciated the extra hour gained that night, but now it is getting dark around 5pm in this valley in the North Pennines. In the darkness you can see pinpoints...
View ArticleIntend To Trust
For most people trusting does not come easily. Quite often that’s because at some point trust has been betrayed or misplaced. Would you for example, entrust a car to a garage whose work proved...
View ArticleA Shepherd Hut
I have been out this morning to meet Paul at The Northumberland Shepherd Hut Co. I have been looking at shepherd huts online and thinking what a fabulous hermitage one of these huts would make. Paul’s...
View ArticleCaring – An Expression of Gratitude
A couple of relatives came for lunch last week and brought this beautiful flowering florist’s Cyclamen as a present. It will be a good companion for the Prayer Plant mentioned in a previous post. Each...
View ArticleA Modification and a Next Step
News from Rev. Mugo Rev. Alicia and I from the very start of the project 15 months ago intended to work side by side collaboratively and indeed that is what we have done up to now. As the project moved...
View ArticlePatience in the Face of Discomfort
Two days ago the weather was wild. A Met. Office Severe Weather warning had been issued and structural damage was expected over a huge swathe of Britain. At a critical moment the other morning it was...
View ArticleCaravans – and a Car
This card was given to me by someone who knows my interest in hermitages. It is not quite what I have in mind for the Field of Merit hermitages, but it is in the right spirit and I enjoy looking …...
View ArticleBuilding not Shed
Rev. Alicia and I met in the Southern Lake District on Tuesday. We enjoyed lunch together – a treat of egg, beans, chips and then visited a two-man enterprise making camping pods. Their workshop was...
View ArticleImproving the Website
This morning Rev. Mugo, Rev. Wilfrid and I had a meeting of the Field of Merit Trustees. One of the items on the agenda was to agree to register with the online donation service provided by MyDonate,...
View ArticleThe Year Ahead
It has taken me some time to adjust to the changing of the year. On one level moving from December 31st, 2013 to January 1st, 2014 is just the difference of one day. What’s to adjust to! However the...
View ArticleHolding the Space
Recently I was talking with a friend and she used the term holding the space. I have heard it before, but this time it really struck me because it so closely expresses what I see as my role when Field...
View ArticleOnline Donations
Just thought I’d let you all know that I have added an online donation facility to the website. It is on the Appeal for Funds page and it looks like this (you can click on this one too): I chose …...
View ArticleAppreciating the Known
For some reason this image keeps calling me back this afternoon, unfortunately why this is so is difficult to put into words. There is a tension between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the known...
View ArticleA Property Found!
Great news – and the reason why this post is later than usual – Rev. Mugo and I went to view a property on Saturday and I have decided to rent it. The property is on the edge of the … Continue reading →
View ArticleMoving Date – 25th February
Thank you so much for all the congratulations and messages of support for the new property in Wirksworth, Derbyshire. Thank you also for asking what items will be needed to furnish and equip it: I have...
View ArticleThe Non-Ferocious Way
There is only one thing To train hard For this is True Enlightenment. Taken from Rules for Meditation by Zen Master Dogen We set great store by being sharp, being focused, being brightly alive. In...
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