TUESDAY 9 Aug; My Pilgrimage
Eleven days ago I arrived at Eleusis, after 15 days of cycling 1100 kilometers on my bike. A lot happened on my journey from Den Bosch to Eleusis. My original plan had been to ride on my bike from Den Bosch in Netherlands
Read more…At the moment we are having glorious weather. At the height of the day it is very hot and nice to sit under the walnut trees or in the cool of the refectory.
Adam and I have been building a metal storage cabin and in the hottest part of the day we ha
Read more…As I spent time in Welland, a very small city in the Niagara Region, Ontario.... I realized that all places have history, and no matter what, there will be a museum showing what has happened a long long time ago in the place. The Welland museum is a
Read more…Today has been a bit cooler, though we had some hot sunshine in the afternoon. We have all been working hard. Elja is in a cleaning mood and has been blitzing the kitchen and also washing sheets and duvet covers. Adam has been laying more concrete sl
Read more…Wildlife
'Our' hedgehogs have all three disappeared. We are hoping that this means that they have moved on and not that they have come to grief. I can imagine that they might well have decided that there are better places than our garden since here t
Read more…West Europe is in the grip of a heat wave and here in central France it has been 40 degrees and even at 8pm it is still pretty hot. Really too hot to work. This morning after service and breakfast we did another class on Summary of Faith and Practice
Read more…Today temperatures were up in the thirties. A sudden burst of heat. I wonder if we shall have more. I was doing physical work most of the day and when I came in I had a good thirst.
A friend came by and we discussed the imminent referendum which the
Read more…Hoi,
Ik ben Naomi, ik ben hier op vakantie in Frankrijk, bij mijn pleegmoeder, voor drie weken.
Ik ben hier voor het eerst. Ik ben met het vliegtuig gekomen, het was voor het eerst dat ik ging vliegen en ik ging helemaal alleen. Dat was wel een beet
Read more…Two young hedgehogs came to see us today
and had a feed
and a stroll
and met Tara
Everything slows down in August. Looking back, I see that the Daily is getting to be less than 'daily'. Today, after service, our party all wanted to go to the beach. The weather is exceedingly hot and has been so for some time now. I took a book on
Read more…Medical
Yesterday I went to the doctor. I was not able to see my own as she was on holiday. The locum was quite thorough and evidently more worried about my heart than my lungs. She gave me a renewed prescription and a letter to cover if I need to go
Read more…Fridays we go to Oasis. This morning Patrick had placed a lovely magnolia flower on the table beside where I sit in the meditation hall, so when it came time to give my Dharma talk, I talked about beauty, impermanence and the fragility of life and a
Read more…This morning I took Tara to the vet in Ainay le Chateau. She is fairly used to being in the car now and sits on top of the seat backs so she can see out or stretches herself out along the back of my neck across my shoulders. We had to stay in the vet
Read more…I have been reading Yeats...
I am haunted by numberless islands, and many a Dana-an shore,
Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more,
So far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flame would we be,
Were we only white bir
Today I put the hammock up, but it has not stopped the rain from falling. We hang it between two trees behind the house. The larger of the two is our largest walnut tree. Although we take the hammock inside during the winter it is impossible to take
Read more…This morning I was here alone. I completed various jobs making the place welcoming. Cut the grass around the rose garden. Swept out our new meeting area in the big barn and put up a Buddhist flag. Did a lot of washing. It was a hot day, so I was able
Read more…The longest day - mid-summer on some counts! ... and full moon to boot.
I am here alone at the moment, which is another kind of bliss.
Second breakfast...
I took it outside. Warm yet fresh after rain...
Summer's day. Birds singing after rain.
Nothin
We have a lot of forest paths at La Ville au Roi. Keeping them open can be a big job.
The forest is at different stages of growth in different areas of the terrain
Sometimes there is a complete canopy giving the path the feel of a tunnel
Sometimes it
Hi
My name is Naomi. I am on a holiday here in France with my foster mother Elja. I will stay for three weeks. This is my first time here at Eleusis. I came by plane. It was also my first time in a plane and I went all by myself. That was quite exci
Read more…In the meditation hall...
Outside the meditation hall...
