Hello valued reader! April sees PET’s new Financial Year beginning. “April Fools” rang in the month, and today is the International Day of Creativity & Innovation. Linking these diverse bits of info to PET’s vision, which is “to encourage social development, environmental protection and improvement, and wellbeing in the whole Findhorn Ecovillage Community,” begs the […]
Love Fear&Decide
Asked around New Year to think about the following: “If an “Enlightened One” came back today s/he’d be surprised about what?” I started a list and to date I’ve got the following: * how scared people are of ‘pain’ on all levels (and so trying to believe in the illusion of control – time) * […]
Elephant/ballet dancer?
Of course we already know who/what produces the world’s Greenhouse Gasses today… Here are the up-to-date Findhorn Ecovillage carbon (equivalent) offsetting figures since PETs carbon offsetting service started in December 2017. Nota Bene: during the last five “pandemic waves” (a) we have not been travelling so much, (b) Cluny has been closed, (c) being cloistered […]
Hearts&minds
A movie about Robert F. Kennedy after his brother’s sad demise, brought home some of the myriad possible, valid concepts for achieving happiness. That universal — not just American — “Pursuit of Happiness” was also the (personal) goal of each of the Findhorn Founders, Eileen and Peter Caddy and Dorothy Maclean, as you can read […]
Happy intentions
Tomorrow we remember the birthday of Dorothy Maclean at the beginning of the new community development, protection, improvement and wellbeing year! Viva la dolce vita!!! Reflection during the feast days brought to mind the following inspiring “Eileen message” which hangs on the coworker noticeboard at Cluny. It deals with basic questions that are equally valid […]
2022 what2do?
After another challenging year for sustainable development we know that 2022 will focus internationally on artisanal fisheries and aquaculture, and glass… What in heaven’s name/on earth links these areas together?! The association of women with fish was commonplace in European folk-lore in the past, and in fin-de-siècle art and literature women and “water ha[ve] been […]
More than a process
The holiest month of the year (fact checking led to the shocking😱 conclusion that no one holyday list is definitive…. or unbiased) and its blessings are here, again under pandemic conditions. That makes it once more very rough on geographically dispersed families — extra blessings to them. Thank goodness one&all can fall back on the […]