Keeping the balance

I have been thinking about rearranging my room for some time and this morning this I found myself doing it. I was a bit half hearted at first as looking at it altogether it seems quite a daunting task and I am not even certain that I will like it when it is done.

I started in the kitchen area, which is what the picture shows, although what it doesn't show is all the rearranging done behind the curtains. Together with quite a lot of throwing out of stuff. Its good to do it one section at a time, however, as that only takes a few hours which this time of year are always interspersed with people wanting to talk to me. Come to think of it I am not quite sure why I have to do this job at this busy time of the year, but it won't be the first time this has happened to me.

When I went to the communal kitchen one of the volunteers asked me to draw one of her tarot cards which was 'keeping the balance' which I think pretty much says what I am doing at the moment. I feel like the anchor here and to do that I have to be well anchored in my home – so hence the clearing out and reorganising to make it more like it needs to be if I am going to do that work.

Christmas not finished

I got up this morning determined to get the last Christmas things off to the Post Office. I started early writing a lot of letters and sent them to Rajan for printing. Then I packed up a lot of the presents, including the last large one to my sister and her children. Lastly I went to the Visitors Centre to get the remaining cards and little presents and came back feeling rather pleased. It was only just gone 10.00am and all I had to do was put the cards and letters together and then I could go to the Post Office and send everything off.

Christmas would be finished!

Except of course it wasn't as Rajan found a rats nest in the printer which has had to go and be mended.

Ah well; just goes to show I suppose that things take the time they do to get finished. It was nice to find a present to me at the Post Office from one of my daughters. The picture shows all still to go, but its either just cards and letters or small things so hopefully they will make it before the 25^th.

Like a hedgehog

When I went out to work this morning I was met by Pierre who told me that he has taken on another dog. It is for a French woman who is going back to France tomorrow and wants Pierre to look after it until she can get it over to France in several months time. I am rather cross as that means we now have six dogs on the place which I think is too much. And although Pierre does do a lot of the looking after, he is often out and then of course we have to take up the slack. Lets see if this woman actually takes the dog....... maybe things will feel different when she gets back to France.

I get to the kitchen to find that only four people are there so I get them started on something and gradually people drift in and I give them different jobs. Then I have to rush off because my stomach is grinding and when I come back I find that Pierre has taken all the best volunteers again! It does exasperate me that he does that without talking with me! Somehow I find myself doing all the picking but having to organise people at the same time.

The picture I think expresses very well how I felt after all that. I felt that my hair was standing on end with all the tension and all I wanted to do was roll into a small ball. If I had prickles like a hedgehog so much the better because then it would mean that no one could get at me.

Fairy rings

When I walked through the cashew orchard this morning it was as if the trees had all been wreathed in fairy rings. Each one had a mulch of grass around it and it had the effect of making it all seem very magical in the bright sunshine.

Unfortunately the picture doesn't show very well just how magical it looked as I couldn't seem to get far enough away to get several of the trees and their rings in the picture. To do that maybe I need my own drone with a camera to take a picture from above.

Sparkling droplets

After a shower last night it was damp and misty this morning and it rained very gently during the work time. I was really pleased with this picture as I just got the moment when there were lots of droplets on the banana leaf and the sun was shining through them and making them sparkle.

It was just lucky as I was so busy I didn't have time to sit and wait for the right moment, but somehow I got it anyway.

Rather tense

At the end of the day I am feeling rather tense as I seem to have been sorting out 'stuff' all day. This has ranged from dealing with inter personal conflicts, giving information to volunteers, going to a Farm group meeting that was eventually abandoned and then having to redo some posters that were the wrong size. Its been a bit like swimming through mud.

Amongst all that I somehow managed to finish off the hangings by putting the poles in top and bottom and tying a plaited string to the top pole. I then took pictures of them all to post on the website, but most of them did not come out very well.

I decided to choose my favourite picture for today and this is the hanging which I have called 'cyclone'. I rather like how the light comes in at the top and the all the coils reflect a bit how I am feeling inside at the moment.

I love this scarf

I have been so busy today. I have stopped trying to do anything during work time but spend the time facilitating everyone else to do the work. This means I spend the whole time whirling around Buddha Garden making sure that everything and everyone is OK.

We have had a lot of people turn up so I have been constantly talking to people which includes the two people who turned up for the Introductory Course. As usual I seem to have a huge amount of stuff to do and process. I haven't even thought about pictures all day.

So I have used a picture of a scarf that I was working on yesterday as it is a prize in the draw we are going to have as part of our fund raising. Its made of cashmere and is wonderfully soft and warm. I like it so much that I have bought three of them for three of my nephews and nieces for Christmas. It really is lovely and I think the picture somehow captures something of the loveliness of it.