Green hands?

I woke up this morning with an image of what the logo for the new shop is going to look like.  This picture is not at all like my image - partly because I did it on my iPad and with the internet down I didn't have access to all my photos.  But it is part of the process I think of getting a name for it as well as a logo, website and catalog.

I woke up with the name 'grow to eat' store/centre/shop, but Vivek and Noemie liked Emma's idea of 'green fingers'.  I like it as well except that in some European countries people who are good with plants have 'green thumbs' so I wonder if 'green hands' wouldn't be a better name.  I am a bit worried about having another centre at Buddha Garden, but shop doesn't sound right either in a place where we supposedly have 'no exchange of money' and we will also be supplying advice as well as practical things like tools and plants.

We have lots of ideas and I am hopefully going to update the website tomorrow.  This will mean lots of work with images as well as words which undoubtedly will lead to other ideas and names.... 

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

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This is one of several pictures of Sam that I received today.  I love the way he seems to be having a conversation using his eyes and face if not his speech.

Its so hot today the air feels like it is burning.

Findhorn practice

This morning I put on an event - 'a walk around the farm'.  This was for anyone who was interested as part of the Earth Day week - we were the last activity.  It was quite early in the morning so it wasn't too hot, thank goodness, and although I had some misgivings about doing something like this on a Sunday it was very useful for me.

Yesterday I got a copy of the Findhorn poster and put it up on the notice board and used it as the first part of the event.  It seemed to work well as people were engaged with the points being made and there were some interesting questions and discussion.  

I am so pleased that I had the opportunity for doing this.  Having had this practice I now feel  more confident about doing the talk at Findhorn.

Doodle

I bought myself a sketch book today after a volunteer told me how she draws the basic things and then manipulates them digitally.  I thought I would like to try it but when it came to creating a picture today I had no ideas.  This is where the iPad is lovely - I can doodle around until something happens, which is what I did with the above.

This picture reminds me of the bamboo patch in the corner just by the bathroom.  We cut it down drastically a few months ago but of course being bamboo it is growing again, even without water.  It is a very tough plant.

Tomorrow I am doing a 'farm walk' as part of Earth Week and I will be showing the poster I made for Findhorn.  I got the copy today and am very pleased with it.  I'm also pleased to be practising the talk before I go.

Delicious long sleep

After several very intense days I had a delicious long sleep this afternoon.  It wasn't one of those sleeps where I lay down and then went unconscious for two hours or so.  I felt myself allowing myself to sleep on and on.....  I felt a little bit groggy when I woke up and started to berate myself for sleeping so long, but I obviously needed it.  I've been feeling tired and the heat and full moon has made it difficult to sleep these past few nights

Its wonderful how things get done when I put them on my do list.  I've been meaning to clean out my clothes cupboard for a long time.  I put it on my do list today and hey presto I have done it.  Wonderful.

I enjoyed doing this drawing and as I did it realised that I haven't done much over the last weeks, mainly I think because by the time I get around to doing it I feel too tired.  I've also been very tied up with doing the poster for the conference and didn't have the creative energy to do anything else.  Hopefully that can now change and I will be able to do more of these sorts of pictures.

Found

These are two things I have recently found which I feel have symbolic meaning for me.  I finally hung them up today and they do seem to exude a very positive energy.  Even although I am feeling tired as I went out this evening I came back really wanting to write about them.

The circle is an Indian bangle -  one that I could buy it any bangle shop - which I found a few weeks ago on the land as I walked back from visiting the Dog Centre which is just behind the farm.  I went there as I was writing a report for one of the Auroville groups about the problems they are experiencing.  I always pay attention when a bangle like this comes to me as I once had a very powerful dream about them and they have featured in my life ever since.  I had the dream after a very bad bout of typhoid on a New Year's eve. In the dream I dug in the soil and found water which welled up and loosened some bangles which I put on.  Since then bangles have come and gone in my life and they usually signify that something important is going on.  I feel with this one that it connects to the changes that are taking place in Buddha Garden as well as the direction in which my creative work is going.  I feel that the practices I do - a picture every day and writing 500 words of fiction - are going to bear fruit even although I sometimes feel that they are not going anywhere.

I found the fish in Buddha Garden and pinned it up on the board, but no one has taken it.  I really like this fish; I like the colours and the design which reminds me very much of similar things I saw in Malaysia, mainly from the Chinese community.  There is something very happy about this fish.  It seems to resonate with the fact that I have got friendly with Ashok from Singapore who says he is coming back to be part of Buddha Garden.

I sent off the Findhorn poster today after putting a few finishing touches to it.

It is a very powerful full moon tonight with a short eclipse in the early hours of the morning.  I didn't sleep well last night because of the moon and fear that tonight will be similar....

Done it!

At last I think I have cracked the poster for the Findhorn conference.  I have spent all afternoon doing it and it was very intense work.  

Obviously it needs more work to pretty it up, but I am pleased with the basic idea and design.

Phew!