Perma-food-culture
"Classical" businesses are starting to talk more about the opportunity profit in "culture" over that of "cost accounting". 2blogs ago we looked at the idea of "true cost" calculation.[mfn]https://parkecovillagetrust.co.uk/2022/08/nuts-and-fruitcakes/[/mfn] Even the Park Ecovillage at Findhorn is studying the possibilities of larger scale food&energy production, in line with their enlightened "0carbon30"
Greater fool
In You We Trust: hope you had a happy USIndependence Day! Change. We're being bombarded with opportunities to so do because global millennial environments are proving to be utterly VUCA. But what's happening with the much vaunted "new-normal?" OK sure, things aren't the same as yesterday (the passing river &c.),
Elevate, in action
Why? Why? Why? Are we there yet? Recurrent travel themes for children and adults. Young&old live in a puzzle. And to counter unsatisfactory official guidance around what life is really about, we adults comfort ourselves with (depressed) acquiescence and/or distractions -- faking a semblance of control ... Why not repeat
Hope of humankind
Which hope? "Community" or Hegel's "self as the will-to-power" in conflict with another's "will-to-power?" Individualism or communalism? A poignant discussion point in today's world: on the stages of the Ukraine & N.Korea, of ecovillages, family homes -- wherever individuals, desiring to gather together, choose to continue/slow down or even stop
Manifestation
PET has been "in business" since 2009. It was originally setup with one distinct purpose, namely to serve as the charitable vehicle for the provision of the "Findhorn Eco-Kit Project," first throughout Morayshire and later overseas too. This was PET's first manifestation of it's Memorandum of Association. It has been
Manifesting
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
Happy Birthday Peter
Peter Caddy would be celebrating his 105th birthday on the 20th of March ! And in 2022 that's also the date of the Equinox![mfn]write Lorian's Freya Secrest & Lucinda Herring, "the term ‘Equinox” is derived from aequus (equal) and nox (night). At the time of the Spring and Fall Equinox,
Norms Values Ethics
Here's an overview of the values that inspire PET and which its associates -- volunteers and paid staff --, members and supporters subscribe to. This Code of Conduct informs the "how and what" that we do internally, externally, individually and together. [vertical-spacer] [vertical-spacer]Some background information: [vertical-spacer] [vertical-spacer]
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
Hearts&minds
A movie[mfn]"RFK," a 2002 tv bio-pic https://youtu.be/VbHemHty-ck[/mfn] 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
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
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
