Monthly Archives: February 2010

Snow Cloud, South Downs (19/365)

Snow Cloud, South Downs (19/365), originally uploaded by :Duncan. Just after lunch up on Old Winchester Hill, this happened.

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War

A stunning series of images. War is real, it’s happening, folks.

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Inclusion

A sense of inclusion. The stresses, the thoughts about the week gone and what might be to come. The urge is to push them away, to think later, to feel later. Later. And yet there they are, thoughts, feelings, tensions, … Continue reading

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Book of Life, 18 February

Can ideas ever produce action, or do ideas merely mold thought and therefore limit action? – Krishnamurti

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In the Broccoli Forest (18/365)

In the Broccoli Forest (18/365), originally uploaded by :Duncan.

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Good morning! (17/365)

Good morning! (17/365), originally uploaded by :Duncan. Twas a gorgeous sunny day today

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The perfect schedule for mornings… finally!

Feeling a little sheepish, I am returning to starting work later. The shifts are about discovering an optimum way of living, the way I want to live, fitting time for all the things I love during the day. With the … Continue reading

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Bundle of Ideas

Before waking, the feeling it must be time to get up soon. And it was. 0530. Dark. Hot in bed. We’d left the heater on. That’s a year of switching lights off blown right there. Sun salutations, half dressed, to a … Continue reading

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Body Sculpture BM1500 Power Trainer (16/365)

Body Sculpture BM1500 Power Trainer (16/365), originally uploaded by :Duncan. This thing vibrates you. Like The Reeves and Mortimer Sheep Vibrating Unit, only for humans.

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Another early start

Further experimentation meant arising at 0540 for 3 round of sun salutations, (left/right x3) before work at 6. I don’t know if it’s crazy to start at that time – probably – especially as I woke at 0130 and listened … Continue reading

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Peacock (15/365)

Peacock (15/365), originally uploaded by :Duncan. He came to the garden shortly after we got the chickens – for the food and the female company. Frequently he displays his feathers to the hens and sometimes tries to mate with them.

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Just after dawn (14/365)

Just after dawn (14/365), originally uploaded by :Duncan. After the morning meeting.

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Early Starts

A new experiment: getting up at 0545 to start work at six. That means I’m finished by lunchtime. (Yes, Sunday is the start of my working week, laughing at blasphemy) After a long post-lunch kip, I didn’t even know what … Continue reading

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Weekend Walk 10 – South Downs Way – Cheriton to West Meon

On Saturday I again walked some of the South Downs Way. I left the car at West Meon then took the bus to Cheriton for the starting point. It’s a couple of km from there back to the path, to … Continue reading

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Old Tractor (13/365)

Old Tractor (13/365), originally uploaded by :Duncan. At Holden Farm, near Cheriton, Hampshire. I love the bucket, and that it’s the same angle as the wonky exhaust.

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Meeting Everything Anew

This, after all, is the truth: to have the capacity of meeting everything anew, from moment to moment, without the conditioning reaction of the past, so that there is not the cumulative effect which acts as a barrier between oneself … Continue reading

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So you thought you had experienced pretty much everything the internet had to offer…

Try this: http://chatroulette.com/ You will be connected by video with a random person somewhere in the world – Chat Roulette.

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Stars (12/365)

Stars (12/365), originally uploaded by :Duncan.

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Stephen Fry on the Catholic Church

I can understand the desire of anybody to seek spiritual rewards in a complex and difficult to understand world. We don’t know why we are here or where we are going. We want answers. We love the idea of answers … Continue reading

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Belief is escape

The man who believes in God, the man who believes in the hereafter, or who has any other form of belief, is escaping from the fact of what he is. – Krishnamurti

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