In the morning I had a couple of turns of vertigo after slight effort and realised i must be worse. I went back to bed and slept all morning. Elja wanted to get me to a doctor. In due course, Annette arrived. She agreed and the two of them whisked me
Read more…Today we are visiting friends in the south of Netherlands. there is snow on the ground. When there is frozen snow the morning sunshine is brighter than usual. We took a short walk into town and on the way stopped to build a snowman. We were aiming to
Read more…Notes between breakfast
This morning during breakfast suddenly I found my self in the middle of a history lesson about Honen Shonin. Even before I finished my breakfast I had to get my notebook so I could make notes from the story David told me about
Read more…Every place can be a temple
When I arrived this morning David was hidden behind his oxygen mask again. So I sat beside him and listened to all the noises of the hospital. Modern digital hospitals are full of bleeps, beeps and bops. Different kinds of
Read more…Little by Little
My motto at the moment is "Little by little." It is a life of pottering. A bit of this and a bit of that. I can do many things but only for short periods. Walking is good. It keeps the circulation going, especially in the legs. I wal
A Reflective Season
Yesterday was my mother’s birthday. The day before was my birthday. The day before that was New Year’s Day. This is generally a rather emotional time of year for me and this year no exception. The middle of the cold part of the ye
It has been a day of errands. We had a problem with a computer and had to find a repair shop. In the end it was a matter of buying a new memory pack and having it installed. Computers are so much a part of our lives nowadays that it is difficult to r
Read more…Teaching at the Zen Centre
Today I was teaching at Zen Centrum Den Bosch. The day was a mixture of meditation sessions and Dharma talks. In some of the meditation sessions we did zazen and in others we did chanting. We chanted invocation of Quan Shi
Oxygen
When I arrived in hospital this morning David was hidden behind his oxygen mask. I saw his eyes and immediately knew that he was doing well. I said so. He mumbled something behind his mask about the doctor. I had to be patient for 20 minutes b
Read more…It was a delight to join in with sangha in morning devotions at the Amida Mandala Temple. Then, after breakfast, we headed off to the Midlands for the day. I had some business to attend to in Narborough and then we went to the house of my daughter in
Read more…Days here are full of life. This morning the nurse arrived to take a sample of my blood while we were all sitting round having breakfast. I'm looking forward to getting back the lab result because this will tell something about what difference it has
Read more…Truly Simple Faith
Today we travelled once again to Belgium and stayed with our good friends in Mons. It is a lengthy journey but we pass through quite pleasant countryside, have stops every so often and share the driving. It has been a day of rich d
Today I was tidying up a bit in the attic. In one of the boxes I found some wool and knitting needles. I like knitting, the simple repeating movement of the needles, nothing complicated, no thinking necessary. Later, this afternoon, I found myself co
Read more…Today we started to make some preparations for the coming Event in March, 'Love Life and Transformation'. We talked about the theme and the kind of personal workshops we will organise. After a while we started to talk about Buddhist psychology, a su
Read more…At this moment that I am writing the Daily I am sitting next to David in the hospital. We have no wifi here, so we are without the internet I will post the Daily tonight when I am home again.
I have been through a huge range of emotions. Bit by bit I
Read more…Pooh
Yesterday I found a small package in the mailbox and I brought it with me to the hospital. David unwrapped it and it is a book 'The Tao of Pooh.' No name, so it is a mystery gift... Thank you very much! We read several dialogues together of Pooh
Read more…A special day. David’s 69th birthday. We celebrated David’s birthday with a nice lunch with our good friend Annette.It is always very nice talking with Annette. We discussed and talked about some of the topics on the Eleusis site. First Annette start
Read more…Today we are visiting Eleusis member Michel and his wife Francoise, our lovely friends. - a happy reunion. Arriving after a long drive we enjoyed spending time talking with our friends which, of course, included talking about the three days of "lockd
This weekend we have been busy making bookcases and reorganising rooms and also packing things up in preparation for winter. Here deep in the country, as soon as the weather turns cold, mice decide to move indoors and start looking for warm things wi
