And so today..'.I continue to continue'

Today's song...


https://youtu.be/uRv4S0BPMik

This is the view from my bedroom window at Le Sentier Tranquille in the Pyrenees. Two years ago in September I was literally compelled in the most incidental way to find the money and go there. This is when I began meditation. Simon Cole and his wife Linda provided the space and the peace of mind.

http://www.retreats.life-counselling.co.uk/travel_4.html

I started to crawl my way towards changing how I experience life because I'd been aware for some time that the way I'd been doing it wasn't working for me. Everything seemed to derive from a basic template that I'd cleverly put together when I was very young. I could trace everything back to it. I can see this was necessary at the time and it enabled me to survive the environment I was raised in. However now, with care my heart needed breaking into. My skin, my shell, my armour needed laying down...

I lie here now taking in the pieces. The days, the weeks, the year. All the searching backwards and forwards. The finding and the loosing and the letting go's. A moment of clarity arriving to remind me (and us) that there really is nothing else. This is it. This now is all there is and will ever be....The rest is what I choose to make of it.

So today, back into the garden for me. Today I am building a raised bed and planting some seeds. Some chard some lettuces, some herbs perhaps. I'm going to save shed loads of money by growing my greens. Speaking of sheds..It's nearly time I got that shed collected and re-built in my garden...Hey Ho and away we go......