Soil and soul work

Had a very difficult Farm Group meeting this morning.  It ended up with a very toxic atmosphere with someone who has been administering the group for the last year deciding to leave.

Its heart breaking to see someone with so many wonderful capacities leaving because they feel they can’t do anything in the toxic atmosphere of the group.

Thank goodness for the work with the soil that keeps me sane.

the start of another week

Love this picture of a volunteer with one of the dogs.  This was just before we started work this morning.

Friends

This is a picture of my friend and myself.  She is now feeling rather fragile but much better than she was.  We are looking at the possibility of going to Yercaud which is the nearest place in the cool hills.

Busy day

After a lovely lunch together with my friend just arrived from the UK I had a horrible shock this afternoon when I went to see her where she is staying. I was met by two other guests saying that she had collapsed.

Rushed over to her room and found that she looked extremely pale and not feeling very well.  Later when it was cooler and after some food she was a lot more lively and looked and said she felt a lot better.  She told me its happened before when she’d got overheated in the sun.

I’ve suggested that she has a quiet morning tomorrow and then see if she is up for doing something later in the day.  It would really help if she could go to the cool of Kodai but it is quite a journey to get there.

I love the colour of pineapples at this time of year.

Last session of the year

Found out that today’s session in the garden was the last of this school year as the next Friday they have off for Good Friday.  Had a lovely time finally putting up the arch over the gate and then taking a video of them walking through it and saying what they liked about being in the garden.

Went to Centre Guest house to wait for my friend Sylvia to turn up in the evening.  When she was later than expected I phoned Rajan at the exact time that she turned up in Buddha Garden!  Had a lovely chat when she eventually turned up at the guest house.

A lovely surprise

I came back from my yoga class and was immediately pitched into an extra session planting beans on the research beds.

When I had finished who should be there but Devashish – a friend from way back when I first came to Auroville.  We went and had something to eat at the Secret Garden and had a lovely conversation.

At school

Had a really enjoyable session at Transition school today where we spent some time processing lettuce seeds.  I am so glad that we had the opportunity to do some work with seeds.

I love this picture which is of Moorthy, who is their teacher, tying up the tomatoes that had fallen down.  It shows how  he is really interested in the project in a hands on sort of way.