Simpl-e the best
[ /ˈsɪmpli/] I trust you had a happy Autumn Solstice. As the light hours shorten, there's an opportunity for more introspection... Continuing on from the previous blog's theme, I received a comment about how difficult it is to practise the consequences of humans being more than just their bodies and/or
Knowing our limits
In 2022AD there are so many important survival issues requiring active & individual efforts to resolve them[mfn]PETs current operational areas: To encourage social development and environmental protection and improvement, and wellbeing in the whole Findhorn Ecovillage Community. See https://parkecovillagetrust.co.uk/home-portfolio/about/[/mfn] that it can be quite daunting -- if not downright paralysing!
Condolences
Remembering a wonderful Queen Elizabeth and wishing her family, the Community, Moray, Scotland and the UK comfort, as her remarkable life is celebrated. She blessed so many people with her faith and kindness. Praying that we’ll find comfort in our memories of her, we offer our heartfelt sympathy for her
CCC on Facebook
Hello there wonderful supporters of community wellbeing at the Findhorn Ecovillage Community. The CCC is on Facebook! Here's the URL: https://www.facebook.com/groups/579850887019766 It's a practical medium, so check it out&join: you can then hear about the help community members require via our Coordinator. click the image for specific ccc-donation goals
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"
Eileen’s Birthday
Today is a special day. Eileen Caddy (26 August 1917 – 13 December 2006) was a spiritual teacher and new age author, best known to the world as one of our Community's Founders. In Wikipedia's words: "the commune she started in 1962 with husband Peter Caddy and friend Dorothy Maclean
Nuts and fruitcakes?
Prince Charles is one of the champions of TruePricing[mfn]https://trueprice.org/consumer/[/mfn] (True Cost Accounting) and organic farming. In the past, he has made explicit statements about the need for True Cost Accounting tools. "We have to find a way of valuing in financial terms the increasing damage done to the earth’s life
HoWeCare
On 10th July, the CCC hosted the historic "Findhorn Tea Party" with homebaked cake, to highlight the material supporters of its work and achievements to date. After the fact, CCC-Coordinator Laura Shreenan mused digitally: "First and foremost I would like to extend my personal deeply heartfelt gratitude to the people
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.),
VUCA food
Did you know 20 June was world refugee day? Major factors leading to refugee migrations are war, economic & climate conflict, government persecution or there being a significant risk of these. Topical, yes! But we have an even bigger problem: fast rising utilities&food prices at home, abroad and planet-wide. End
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
Following ur is rational
Happy World Environment Day! Encouraging, developing, protecting and improving it -- which PET officially does -- encompasses (1) choosing to change the way our community does things (2) deciding the better way, and (3)planning when -- in the main sooner rather than later! Of the above three action moments, the last two are easier to
