Why? Why? Why? Are we there yet? Recurrent travel themes for children and adults. We all 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 what we did as […]
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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 growing in what it means […]
SOSoil
Firstly, Happy Easter season to you! In a rare conjunction, three major holidays of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are occurring at the same time this year. So why don’t we emphasise the positive blessings of UNITY in a way which precludes just evangelism and one-way dialogue, but makes the most of both by way of […]
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 […]
Net0.30 study Grant
Great news about the Findhorn Ecovillage Community Net0.30 study and PETs 2021 National Lottery Grant application. Here’s the press release: Great news, but stuff doesn’t stop there– ie. with other people offering a climate action smorgasbord for you not to pick and choose from…😱 Remember Gandhi’s statement about “Happiness is when what you think, what […]
Just do it, RIGHT?!
We’ve been talking about the New Normal since the first statistical decreases in this pandemic’s infections/hospitalisations/deaths. “Enough talking,” say I. Surely for Findhorn Ecovillagers and their supporters the “New Normal” can’t really be called cutting edge any more…😵 Heck, if you’re having difficulty doing the New Normal then perhaps it’s too late😉? As I still […]