Archive for April, 2008
Harmony is a conscious community
How large a full moon looks when she first rises above the horizon.
Her passion for being present is full on.
When people decide to come to Harmony they often have this same full on passion to pop over the horizon and be in Harmony. Yet many of them wane quicker than the moon and never [...]
Raindrops make bubbles too
Raindrops are like magic you do not see them until they appear. On water laced with detergent they hit the water safe and reappear. Myriads of shapes they may take. From a large bubble if they hit right on and the water is quietly waiting. Landing in more chaos their patterns are more [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )How much to change Nature
It is simply the law of the curve, of respect for all things, from which I create a space for myself among others. I refrain from the straight line barriers that dominate and control space within the cities.
How far dare I go to make life easy? When I make a path I move more [...]
Grass Control Freak
“I’m going to get rid of all that grass!”
It took me days to see that I had sucumbed to the very thing I had thought to end. Not doing is still doing and I was not doing big time. I did not like grass at Harmony Forest.
Cities get rid of forest and hold it back [...]
How our brains work helps us relate to our Environment
Kinesiology is amazing. With it we can muscle-test and determine which brain hemisphere is dominant, and give the brain little exercises to integrate right-left, front-back, and top-down (cerebrum-cerebellum) function. In both learning and performing this testing I have been amazed at how dysfunctional I and others brains can become when afraid and stressed; and there [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Changing Challenges of Living Alone and with Others
What is it that drives people apart to find themselves alone and what is it that drives people to be together?
Together with someone I want to be able to decide all I do and when I do it. Alone I wish for the insights, help, and love of another of my species.
When [...]
Spiritual Ecology: Who is the architect when you build and design at same time?
Spiritual ecology can be the dynamic design of a building where I walk with Spirit, posing questions of trees, building materials, animals, and my intentions and needs; and letting the answers which come guide my interpretation of the needs of the neighbouring plants and animals, the building, and my use of that building. This creates [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Pure Wool Insulation and CD50 timber preservation
We are enjoying our Latitude (formerly “Woolbloc) brand pure wool insulation made locally in Nelson, New Zealand.
Before we lined Lorraine’s Sacred Space cabin with it there was an odour that didn’t feel quite right. Lorraine felt it is was the CCA preservatives used in the H3 eco-ply cladding the outside walls and I thought it [...]
Eco-Holiday under the Southern Alps
Tuesday 25th MarchGlenorchy walked around township in evening.
Wednesday 26thRees River track through beech forest is lovely but seemed dry and sparse and its pretty well only beech saplings that form the understory. Lovely views of snow covered cap of Mt Earnslaw to the left as we walked.
Thurs 27thMy step was light and my joy of [...]
NZ’s Tallest Peak Falls. Time for Us All to Stand Tall Together.
The following is gathered from several sources (see Appendix: Oral Forms of the Internet).
Aoraki/Mount Cook – the ancestor of Ngai Tahu, a brochure published by the Department of Conservation (DOC) in 1999 says that “in the beginning all was darkness (Te Po). Out of the first glimmer of light (Te Ao), long-standing light (Te Aoturoa) [...]
