tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24160116356060957002024-02-19T15:46:22.426+00:00Adriana's Light Scribbles (by Adriana Sjan Bijman)On this blog I regularly show you an image that really touches or inspires me and to which I write a story. This is about my passions, love, concerns and interests. My life. In showing them, I hope to inspire you to connect with yours. May Beauty and Light be seen and felt.
I work as a graphic designer, photographer, book- and stationery producer, living at Findhorn, Scotland. My main website is www.findhornImages.com. The webshop is at www.findhornimages.webs.comadrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039850014892203048noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416011635606095700.post-90320450062278435522016-07-13T09:41:00.000+01:002016-07-13T09:41:41.994+01:00Loving Lupins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The first things that caught my eye at the accommodation in Kinloss were the lupins. Majestical and noble, they were standing
guard at the entrance of the path up to the house. Although their spines looked
very straight, they were far from stiff, with their delicate, pea-like flowers
growing in dense whorls around a tall spike in a soft apricot abundance.
‘Welcome!’ they waved to me as I entered further, and was pleasantly distracted
by a group of bright red <i>Papaver
orientalis</i> surrounded by at least five different colours of aquilegias. “This
looks good!” I exclaimed. “I like this little garden.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The owner of this temporary home, at the
moment in Canada until mid July, immediately recognised the herbaceous perennial plant on the
photo I sent. Last year his woman friend had taken some of its seeds — which
come in a pod as fruit— to sow in her own Canadian garden. Two gardens, two
people on different sides of the earth, connected by lupins and love. Most
likely they grow very well there. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are many species of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lupinus albus and perennis</i>, and they grow
everywhere in Europe. For thousands of years they have been found around the
Mediterranean, as well as in North and South America, where, it has been
discovered, especially in the Andes, the legume seeds or beans have been grown
for food for 6000 years. From my agricultural years in the Netherlands, I
remember that farmers grow them as green manure, to nourish the soil. A meadow
full of these yellowish flowers looks astonishing. Nowadays the lupin bean is
increasingly popular as food again, as a healthier alternative to soya beans. Full
of protein. An antioxidant and a prebiotic. And gluten free! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I would start to grow them in my veggie
patch right away. Lupins. And more lupins. Partly to nourish and heal the body,
partly as an ornamental flower to heal my heart and to brighten my days. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-weight: normal;">Now bring me tha</span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-weight: normal;">t garden! As</span></span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> that is still
missing. With a house, my long-term home to be. Yes, please!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">© Blog 46, photo and text </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> 9th June 2016,
Kinloss. © Adriana Bijman</span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shortened version, the whole version will be in the upcoming book!</span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
adrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039850014892203048noreply@blogger.com1Kinloss, Forres IV36, UK57.636228 -3.563315999999986257.619229000000004 -3.6036564999999863 57.653227 -3.522975499999986tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416011635606095700.post-19256371811062576862016-06-19T17:20:00.002+01:002016-06-19T17:20:35.254+01:00Summer Solstice / Midsummer / Litha <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13pt;">The Wheel turns</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;"> to Midsummer, the 2ost of June. The longest day of the year here in the northern hemisphere. It is said that the Summer Solstice is the Give-Away time of
the Sun. The light of the day has grown and has been expanding into its highest
lights during these long, endless summer nights here in the north. Filling up
the day and spilling it over. On the Scottish Orkney Islands it hardly gets
dark and at Findhorn, with a bright sky, I can photograph outside without flash
until midnight. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Breathe in deeply the abundance of fragrances in the air
and the earth; light a fire; dance; wear wild flowers and bless the bread and
honey and breathe deeply again.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And
every Summer Solstice is totally different of course, like every day is
different despite the sun rising and setting daily. Like the summers, like the
whole immense cosmos, we —as the magnificent beings we are— change all the
time. This year brings us an exciting mid June astrological constellation, with
both the Sun and the planet Venus travelling together into the sign of Cancer,
home of the Moon, home to all feelings, the heart and to the mothering quality
in us. A great time to come home to ourselves and to the truth that lives in each
of us. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the Celtic tradition and pre-patriarchal times in which
the Divine Feminine was honoured, the Goddess would share her power with the
Sun King during Summer Solstice and they would sit side by side on their
thrones. Let us honour both their energies in ourselves: the feminine and the
masculine, as we are both. On these Midsummer Eves let us rejoice and enjoy the
immense, sacred energy of the universe while the Sun touches the mountaintops,
the seas and land at dusk and dawn. Happy Summer and Solstice!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Read and see more images about the Celtic Festivals of the year at my web page <a href="http://www.adrianasjanbijman.co.uk/celtic.html">http://www.adrianasjanbijman.co.uk/celtic.html</a></span></span></div>
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was forecasted for this coming weekend, the sun is out. The chalet, where I am
temporarily staying in The Park has a south-facing terrace and herb bed, both
yelling to be tended. The gardener in me can’t wait to respond. Weeding is the
first thing that needs to be done. With the physical condition I have at the
moment — amongst which vertigo with constant dizziness and distorted eyesight—
it seems an overwhelming and Herculean task. I do not know how to begin
gardening again! Kneeling to do the job? No! Squatting?</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">No way. OK… sitting and moving on the ground then? That
might work….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh my goodness! Is
this something all less-able people have to go through? I never knew! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am painfully clumsy, like a drunken
sailor. For one and a half hour I try to ‘keep calm and keep on weeding’,
puffing and sighing while every move of my head causes everything to swirl
around. Until I have to stop from nauseousness. It is the most disappointing
and frustrating experience I have had in this last half year here in The Park. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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terrace tiles. I tackled a big long rooted nettle family. They’ll end up in
tonight’s soup. With quite some effort I did fill more than half a brown
compost wheelie bin with weeds and old branches. I did it! Now I’m proud to
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Blog 44, text & photo © Adriana Sjan Bijman, May 2016</i></span>adrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039850014892203048noreply@blogger.com0Findhorn, Forres, Moray IV36, UK57.659164999999987 -3.607587700000067357.642174999999988 -3.6479282000000675 57.676154999999987 -3.5672472000000672tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416011635606095700.post-23492605497887571282016-03-31T16:08:00.000+01:002016-05-10T01:06:49.320+01:00Shifting boundaries <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One night, I, once again, dream of death;
a repeating theme lately. I am waiting for several people to die, and they seem
to take ages to do so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Slowly, they
slowly turn into brownish-grey mud beings. I stand aside, witnessing it, left
desolate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It reminds me of a sentence I once read,
“Now, in the middle of the journey of my illness, I am left alone and
defenceless.”<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(1) </i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A realisation pops up that the dying
people are part of me; the old me, from whom I want to detach, release or
transform. As I am not totally ready to do so, in the dream I feel an uncomfortable
sense of guilt towards them, as if I am betraying them. Letting them die seems
as if they were not good enough, as if the old me maybe was not good enough? I
have to tell them that they were, at the time, but that now I no longer need
what they stand for: qualities of my pre-illness past, like impatience, direct
sharp communication, and the multi-tasking workaholism. Let those qualities serve
other people now. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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dream I am being forced into a gloomy cellar to clean the incredible filthy
steps descending before me; a horrible task I have been given to undertake.
Finally, after finishing it, I discover an old squeaking door in the cellar,
which brings in fresh air and light. What a relief!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My old organisational skills are well
placed to open new doors, I think. I would like to invite and integrate a new
me, new personalities, as a gift on this journey of illness. Dissimilar to the
old me in many ways. Not only physically older, but also wiser, with more
experience on the inner. This physical condition teaches me new boundaries to
what I can do, and can no longer. At other times, it forces me even to give up
all limits and borders, depending on the shifting sands of my energy. It
teaches me compassion, patience and slowing down, in fact a lot of slowing
down. Taking this in, I realise I now want to live with an evolved set of
boundaries, whether I am ill or healthy. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a journey.</b> The door of the past — with its healthy body in a very busy life—
has been closed and it is not clear where the road will take me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>“Illness is a simple though painful reminder
that we are not the masters of our bodies and our lives”</i> writes Kat Duff <span style="font-size: x-small;">(1)</span>.Illness
is a humbling experience and as such I think, can bring some gifts in disguise.
Insights wrapped up as setbacks, in the Game of Life. </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After seven months of gradually increasing
symptoms, discomfort and pains, instead of a slow or quick recovery, I have to
accept and learn to live with this, like many people with long term illnesses
have to. It has turned my life upside down, thrown me out of my comfort zone
and the fulfilment of a hardworking busy life. It makes me stand apart, in
another category, that of the ill, the weak, the elderly, the non-productive.
It is a different journey. It feels like that, even here, in a community on a
spiritual base, where most people always seem to be so busy and often are on
the edge of being burned out, trying to do so well, to save the world or at
least save our community. Or simply trying to earn a living and be able to
control the ongoing incoming stream of bills. Like I did over the last decades.
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>At first this big change</b> brought up feelings
of tension, guilt and questioning “Why me?” Feeling a bit of a victim. At times
I even blamed myself for it from the point of view of certain schools of
psychology, that ‘with our thoughts we create our own reality’, so why did I
create this? And why can’t I now immediately create a healthy body. It is easy
to stumble into that pitfall of being at fault and responsible for illness
ourselves. These thoughts are absolutely not helpful to me now. It does not
mean I am not willing to look at a deeper personal cause of what my body is
doing and how I can help to get out of this predicament; how to make my journey
towards a better life. How I can make peace with the symptoms. How we can
become allies instead of enemies and how we can start to work for the same
goal. For me a goal of balance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since I was a young girl, my whole life has
been an experience of learning how to have and maintain <b>independence.</b> Although
I now know we all are inter-dependent, it is a tough journey to learn to ask
for help. I can already feel grateful for and see the advantages of newly
learned qualities like patience and slowing down. The ‘being dependent’ and
compassion are in progress, so to speak. I’ve always been a multi-tasker, a
quick thinker and doer. Slowing down, especially to prevent more accidents with
my vertigo-dizziness and only partial eyesight, makes me clumsy. I walk like a
drunken sailor. Out of doors with crutches, for my own safety. Constantly
having to balance myself is exhausting but also contains the lesson of
balancing the way of life. How to bring more balance into my, our lives?<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>How to bring some light in the
darkness? The light of keeping up my spirit, my hope, my goals of renewed good
health. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Simple but at times exhausting <b>survival
activities</b> like washing, getting dressed, shopping nearby and cooking easily
fill my days, next to time to rest.<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span>”How did I ever have time to work?” I grin and wonder. Too tired to pick
up a pen or pencil during the daytime, texts like this only come in the
sleepless dark hours of the night, scribbled on and in between the lines, which
I can hardly distinguish. It does not matter: I recognised the words and pass
them on to you here, as part of my journey. <b>On my way to more light. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">© text and photo: Adriana Bijman. photo in the bus at the A96 to Inverness, along the Moray First Coast, 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(1)</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> The Alchemy of Illness, 1993 p 59.</span></i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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adrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039850014892203048noreply@blogger.com5Findhorn, Moray, UK57.659164999999987 -3.607587700000067357.642174999999988 -3.6479282000000675 57.676154999999987 -3.5672472000000672tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416011635606095700.post-77603025140523546952015-11-22T15:44:00.001+00:002015-11-22T15:45:50.924+00:00The joy of flowers and herbs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;">It has been and it always is a great joy to photograph plants, which
I’ve been doing for many years. With an interest in, and love for wild and
cultivated flowers since I was a young girl in the Dutch countryside, I now
have a large photo-archive full of flowers and plants, made in the areas I
lived in or on my travels around the world. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;">“The wonders of nature are like new every year” author Wendel Berry*
writes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love gardening and
see the daily changes in plants, from seed to bud to blossoming to the
releasing of seed again at the end of the cycle. Such a great example of life!
The flowers in our gardens are grown in a natural way, without chemicals, just
organic compost, manure, love and lots of appreciation. I loved living with
them in my own garden at home, at the studio, and in other gardens. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;">With every herbal greeting card, with every little bag of herbs or seed
in it we give you:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;"><b><span style="color: white;">The promise of life
enfolding<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;"><b><span style="color: white;">The joy of growing and
releasing, all in perfect timing<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;"><b><span style="color: white;">The blessings of good
health<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;"><b><span style="color: white;">The abundance of colour,
form and fragrance<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;"><b><span style="color: white;">The encouragement to
express your love for the Earth<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white;"><b>The miracle of Life</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;">The new
herbal greeting card series with inside a present from the Findhorn Gardens:
Six different herbal greeting cards, (15x15cm/6x6” with coloured envelop) with
a cute bag of seed and herbs to grow in your garden or in pot (like nasturtium,
calendula and papaver), to make yourself a tea (fennel, lady’s mantle) or to
use in the bath (lavender). Wonderfully illustrated with photos and explaining
story about the herb. Hand harvested in the Findhorn Gardens. With
instructions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For sale in my online
shop <a href="http://www.findhornimages.webs.com/">http://www.findhornimages.webs.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We
write the end of August. There were other deadlines to catch, health to attend
to and balance to gain, so that I forgot to write a blog-story, to choose a
photograph, one way or the other. Finally here it is, simple this time. But
no good news, sorry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I liked to photograph the rain, as that did not seem to stop here.
From a drizzle to pouring waves. We are in a part of the world <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(northern Scotland) where there is a
bounty of water coming down, actually like in some parts of India and South
America, where rivers are flooding this August. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have not seen it on the news, but
learned about it during my studies (world) Spanish. Like the flooding of the immense
river-basin which is said to be the most polluted in the world, the </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Riachuelo-Matanza, situated</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;">in a densely populated and
industrious region, north of the Río de la Plata in Argentina</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">. It worries me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other parts of the world they suffer
from drought. I think until now we have underestimated climate changes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Climate Central reports: “</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Even if the world manages to limit global warming to 2C —
the target number for current climate negotiations — <a href="http://sealevel.climatecentral.org/">sea levels</a> may still rise
at least 6 meters (20 ft) above their current heights, radically reshaping the
world’s coastline and affecting millions in the process.</span></i><span style="font-weight: normal;">”* This is no good news. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And will we manage? The reality might even be worse than all
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<span style="background-color: black; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Blog 40, text & phtoo ©: Adriana Sjan Bijman</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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adrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039850014892203048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416011635606095700.post-21691407874672127682015-08-01T17:52:00.002+01:002015-08-01T17:56:27.320+01:00Beauty and ugliness <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hello everybody<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Here some thoughts about health, both in the garden and in
my body, and the congruence I see happening between these two. Although my houseplants
are thriving, healthy and growing fabulously, so I‘d like to take them as my
example</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">‘Fear of the unknown is an essential part of the human program', <span style="font-weight: normal;">Joseph Dispenza,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Way of the Traveller</i>,(2002)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: blue;">Beauty and ugliness in the garden</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">More than 50 strawberry plants, there are black-and redcurrant
shrubs, abundant roses, lettuces</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">, calendula, lemon balm for my tea, and many kind of herbs
for the picking. I defend my food and plants against the pests who are</span><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="mso-special-character: comment;"> </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">looking for their next meal. In essence we are all doing
the same thing, looking for food to live on. The snails and slugs are enjoying an
abundant wet summer in my garden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They’ve eaten all my zucchini plants (including the yellow flowers);
half my beautiful lettuces; they’ve totally destroyed an immense green striped
hosta plant, and all of the dahlias; they’re doing their best with my cabbages
and broccoli and now the snails are heading for my strawberries. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“No!” I told them. ”You can have the cabbages, but not the
strawberries. That’s my limit.” We’re not on speaking terms anymore. So I tried
to stop them, using crumbled eggshells, prickly comfrey leaves, with
copper anti-slug tape and I even bought them beer. (As a coeliac, I don’t drink
beer). I think they’re ugly. I wouldn’t mind seeing them drown themselves drunk
in the cans with beer I placed at several strategic places.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I still have quite some processing to do before I can be at
peace with them, before I can see their beauty</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b><span style="background-color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Challenges of beauty and ugliness in the human
body</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Like my garden, my </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">beautif</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">ul, slim, 51 kg, flexible, strong
body has its own ugly side to face, invisible to others. For years I’ve been
struggling with the untreated consequences of coeliac disease. I now have it quite
well under control and am at peace with it, but two months ago the right side
of my body went numb. Although it still functioned normally, it is as if it was
only partly present. At the same time red spots started to appear on my chest. Neither
I, the doctors and nor the hospitals have any idea what is going on. I’m a
guinea pig, receiving one cream and test after the other, even antibiotics, all
without result; a biopsy, a lumbar puncture, an MRI brain scan; bioresonance
sessions, homeopathic and Bach remedies, a thorough clean of my new house after
the discovery of the fungus <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aspergillus</i>.
After two month my illness is still a mystery, as both the spots and the
numbness are not only not improving, but getting worse, with severe dizziness, causing
me to faint in the street last week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">During good moments I am in peace with it. During other
moments, the worry and the fear set in. Then I start imagining, like Don Quixote,
my own dragons where there might only just be windmills. Time to face the
dragons and maintain the windmills. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No beauty without learning about ugliness,
no love without getting to tackle fear.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Blog 39, July 2015, © text and photos: Adriana Sjan Bijman</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>My latest newsletter on <a href="http://www.adrianasjanbijman.co.uk/newsEvents.html"><span style="color: white;"></span></a></i></span></span></div>
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adrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039850014892203048noreply@blogger.com2Forres, Forres, Moray IV36, UK57.609790999999987 -3.619979999999941457.575763999999985 -3.7006609999999416 57.643817999999989 -3.5392989999999411tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416011635606095700.post-19057252740580995812015-06-19T15:31:00.001+01:002015-06-19T15:31:30.088+01:00Signs of Summer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Signs
of summer.</b> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Well, it is June and I still have the
heating on, so</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">that’s not such a good sign.
But in my garden! The daily changes in the plants are the signs of summer for
me. Take the strawberry plants: from a delicate white flower to a little ball in its
centre, to slowly growing into a real recognisable strawberry fruit, although
still yellowish. Is that not a little miracle in itself? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To see the bright yellow flowers appear on the zucchini, the swelling
of the blackberries, the pink and lilac roses… and as a highlight to see the
many peonies open and be present in all their majesty. I love it! </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Zinging zestful
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">Blog 38, text
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adrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039850014892203048noreply@blogger.com0Forres, Forres, Moray IV36, UK57.609790999999987 -3.619979999999941457.575763999999985 -3.7006609999999416 57.643817999999989 -3.5392989999999411tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416011635606095700.post-23092181497285140652015-05-24T17:52:00.001+01:002015-05-24T17:52:14.477+01:00"How far is’t called to Forres?” "<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">“How far is’t called to Forres?”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"> was
Shakespeare’s Macbeth’s famous question to the three Weird Sisters, or witches.
Later, like many, the women probably were tried for witchcraft</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">in Cluny
Hills Hollow or burned at the stake. Macbeth is now the name of the local
prize-winning game and venison butcher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;">Seen from The
Park, the nearest town, Forres, always looked quite far away to me, emotionally
at least. But actually, now that I have moved to Forres, and commute everyday
by bike or bus between my studio in the Park and my new home, I realise this is
not true. Forres is home to Cluny Hill, to Newbold, to Transition Town and
other familiar Findhorn Foundation Community organisations, businesses and
people I know. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">Spring,
while the soil puts</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;"> forth new
beginnings, is a good time to move house. Blossoms smile along the streets, and
in the many parks that enrich this little town and now enrich me. At Castehill
Park, I feel feasted under the arch of pastel pink, ivory white and rose red
Japanese cherry trees. Forres has more green to discover in depth. Grant Park,
Sanquhar Woodlands, Bogton Park, Rose Garden, and Cluny Hills, with its winding
paths around the four or five hills filled with woods of Scots pine and larch. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">Despite its
surroundings being clothed with trees since early times, probably the name
Forres neither derives from forest, as I always thought, nor from the gaelic <i>Far-uís</i> (near the water) but is a
heritage from the time of the Roman Invasion. (My goodness, did they come this
far north? What were they looking for in this rough climate and remote land,
when they could indulge in sunny palaces with Roman baths with bronzed
gladiators</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;"> were queuing
up to massage them?) Anyway, one of those Romans marked this place on the map
as <i>Varis</i>, from which Forres derived.
As said, probably. Earlier it was also probably, the Picts who erected the
esteemed but mysterious Sueno’s Stone, which still stands as guardian to the
north entrance of the town. More than 500 years ago, Forres was granted a
charter by the king to become a Royal Burgh, although another king, oops, was
murdered in its castle. Once the whole town of wooden buildings was completely
destroyed by fire, once half flooded.
Alongside all this drama, there also is the glorious history of once
being a chief town in Moray. I like to fantasize about all that happened here
in the past, but I did not invent most of this information. I found it in a delicate little book,
written in 1894. The local library let me take it home to read. We’ll never
know what was really true and what not…..</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;">After living
a decade at the seaside, with carpets of yellow gorse, broom and purple
heather, with the sounds of yelling seagulls, I notice the differences in my
new residence. So many other bird songs, a dawn chorus! Such different
vegetation, and even different water. The Mosset Burn meanders through town
before joining ‘our’ river Findhorn towards Findhorn Bay; there we are on
familiar ground. As new I walk through streets with ancient buildings on soil
that remembers the passions of the past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><b>It is not very far, that’s for sure. Aye! </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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adrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039850014892203048noreply@blogger.com0Forres, Forres, Moray IV36, UK57.609790999999987 -3.619979999999941457.575763999999985 -3.7006609999999416 57.643817999999989 -3.5392989999999411tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416011635606095700.post-46245648992533030872015-04-23T11:12:00.001+01:002015-04-23T11:19:43.887+01:00A massive fire<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Thinking of the </span><i style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Paasvuren</i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">, the bonfires they still make in spring in the fields in Drente, the east part of the Netherlands, I decided to make my own </span><i style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Paasvuur </i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">and, with the upcoming house move in mind, to burn my diaries. it's a great thing to do! So at the edge of the sea and dunes of Findhorn, with a friend together we sang, shouted it out and danced around the fire. I did a ritual to bless our past with all its experiences of joy and pain and release it together with the old books while we threw them and threw them in the fire. Our memories w</span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">ill stay with us, they are enough.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Deep down
inside me, an </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">even bigger</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> fire is burning.
A </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">huge</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">fire of anger,
outrage, grief, and also of compassion for the suffering. Its flames, spitting
out tentacles, trying to claw at my energy, feed on me and overwhelm me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;">It has
been said that you can only mourn if you can love. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;">Once,
during the preparation for a ritual at Findhorn to shed our tears for the
suffering of the Earth, environmental activist Joanna Macy said: “It takes
courage to fully live in a fear-phobic culture. The dominant system cannot
tolerate the raw feelings of grief and anger about what has been done to our
Earth”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure it means the
anger and fire in me, in you, cannot be seen as only our private pain − to deal
with in hidden one to one therapeutic sessions − but as part of the collective
(un)consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fire in me
is for the ancient forests they’ve put to the flame to clear soil for cattle
grazing. The fire in me is for the memory of being burned at the stake for the
knowledge we had as women about the healing properties of plants, trees and
stones; for the rituals we held to honour Mother Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;">The fire
in me is not a cosy barbecue or gas-lit fake wood-burning stove. I want to make
a real fire to release my useless old, walk over the hot ashes, and burn away
the skin, become raw alive again, renewed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;">My fire
is huge and it needs attention and to <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2416011635606095700" name="_GoBack"></a>be tended by a real
fire-woman. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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adrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039850014892203048noreply@blogger.com0Findhorn, Moray, UK57.659000000000013 -3.6109999999999957.642010000000013 -3.65134049999999 57.675990000000013 -3.57065949999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416011635606095700.post-71287804531566237482015-03-25T14:43:00.000+00:002015-03-25T14:43:36.023+00:00Living and Longing — at the waterfront <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not far
from my flat, the sea and the endless sandy beach with its pebbles perform an
ever-changing seascape. There is my home. It is the water, a home that will
stay, even if I am soon to leave the flat here.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You ask me why I so often go to the beach, why I always
long for the water. I have lived my whole life close to the water. The lake at
Dorregeest, its reed mace waterfront touching our North-Holland polder land, where
my nephew drowned. I remember. The canals of the old Dutch town Haarlem, and
the long straight canal between old moorland at Kiel-Windeweer in the north.
The Italian harbours, expecting the ships to come home with damask from distant
foreign shores. The Adriatic sea, in which one hot summer I myself almost
drowned, struggling for life while Cyndi Lauper’s ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Girls just wanna have fun’</i> resounded over the entire beach
camping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nowadays,
for almost two decades, my coastline is Scotland’s Moray Firth on the northern
Atlantic edge of Europe, where the Vikings once fought with the Picts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our seawater is warmed by the North
Atlantic Drift, which we call here the Warm Gulf Stream, maybe just to make it
sound warmer. We need that!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I had a free day yesterday, a non-working day. I treated
myself to a spa outing with a friend in Nairn, where </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;">the air
still breathes the traditional seaside resort it was in </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">the 1950s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
loved it! Each in our own way, we enjoyed the water. As steam in the Hamman, as
hot bubbles in the Jacuzzi, in the outdoor hot tub, or flowing free in the
pool. Even dipping our feet into the still ice-cold sea. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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was again; the smell of salt, the taste of water, the touch of cold waves
around the feet creeping up the calves, changing the body into a vessel of
goose bumps. Standing, looking out over the waves. How often do I ‘see‘ the
picture of a woman, standing at the waterside, her eyes longing over the
horizon to that unknown not lived life, which could have been?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Water is so emotional.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Blog 35 photo & text: © Adriana Sjan Bijman, March 2015</i></span></span></div>
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adrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039850014892203048noreply@blogger.com0Findhorn, Scotland, Europe58.077876267875169 -2.10937542.129242267875171 -43.417969 74.026510267875167 39.199219tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416011635606095700.post-59414455081456948402015-02-25T08:03:00.000+00:002015-02-25T08:18:56.494+00:00AIR: I believe in Angels<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;">After the grounding ‘earth’ story of my last blog my
attention was drawn to some lines of a Spanish poem; in my translation it says:
“Roots and wings. That the wings may take root and the roots may fly.”</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;">*</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;">The first music I danced to, on my visit to
an Experience Week at Findhorn more than 20 years ago, was the song ‘I
believe in angels’ and from that moment on, I actually did. Or rather I started
to believe, but it was about believing in a different kind of angel to the
Roman Catholic guardian angels I had grown up with; now I opened up to the idea
of intelligent beings existing in nature - the kind that </span><a href="https://www.findhorn.org/aboutus/vision/history/#.VOT3FFozjfg" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Dorothy MacLean</span></a><span style="color: white;">* calls
‘Devas’. They over-light the flora, the fauna, landscapes, cities and
even to us, people. They are not like faeries or other existing ‘little people’
in the natural realm.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;">This was all new to me then, but it made so much sense! I
can now see angels as part of the metaphysical realm, being present in the air
and of vital, integral importance to all life. It helps me to know that
there are higher beings or universal forces out there, beings that see me, love
me, know me and give support, inspiration and encouragement. We are not alone!
I repeat this every morning and thank them. It makes a difference and I can
recommend it to you.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;">Dorothy says that every place has its own ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Landscape Angel’</i>. So I imagine Findhorn
beach has one too. And on a beautiful day during a walk along the beach
of sand and pebbles at Moray Firth, I suddenly looked up into the bright
blue sky. There I saw this shape or figure appear, in between the clouds; like
a heart, like an angel…. Do you see it in the photo? </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;">Here at Findhorn we knew </span><i style="color: white;">Frances Ripley</i><span style="color: white;"> as a
remarkable woman and community member. She made many subtle drawings of the
Nature Spirits. In her book </span><a href="http://www.findhorn.org/2008/09/visions-unseen-by-frances-ripley/#.VOT7s1ozjfg" target="_blank"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">‘Visions Unseen’</span></a><span style="color: white;">*</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; font-weight: normal;">she writes how
“they have the capacity to show themselves in a variety of forms, or else as
formless swirls of colour and light”. Wow. Well, yes… that’s what I
saw…..! So I sat a bit more on that beach enjoying ‘my’ angel. Until the
wind took her away….</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is all in the air, all around us, to give us life — with
every breath. The Breath of Life.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Tex<span style="font-weight: normal;">t and photo: © Adriana Bijman, February 2015. Blog
34 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></i></span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-indent: -24pt;"><span lang="EN-US">* "</span><span lang="EN-US">Raices y
alas.Pero que las alas arraiguen y las raíces vuelen.” by Spanish poet Juan
Ramón Jiménez, ‘Diario de un poeta recién casado’, Madrid 1916</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Let me start with the Earth. The song ‘I feel the earth
move under my feet’ comes to my mind.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Although Carol King sang it as a love song to another human being, I sing
my love to the earth-being, Gaia, and today specifically to this part of the
earth at Findhorn village where I live. The ‘castle’ of Culbin Sands Apartments
has hosted me for more than eight years. I love the views over the wide dune
landscape filled with yellow gorse or purple heather. In bloom they are a
colourful tapestry, drawing you in, to be at home in it. And I am. And I have
been.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><b><span style="background-color: #9fc5e8; color: blue;">Being
touched by the Earth. </span></b><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;">I feel touched while I touch the soft sand, the undulations
of Gaia’s skin on the beach, and I see I am build like Her, in Her image. I am
soft rough uneven broken tough delicate. This soil is calling me again and again.
I am hers. In all weather. How the very soil of a place binds us! First it
calls us, the next thing it anchors us.</span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: blue;">Earth
does not seem to go together with ‘change</span></span><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">’</span></b><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;">Everything connected with the element earth seems to change
very, very slowly, like the movement within a rock or a mountain, that seems
nothing, doesn’t it? Until it expresses itself in an earthquake, that’s big,
overwhelming. But everything is changing continuously. We know that, in theory.
Small daily changes are easy to ignore, but they are signs we better keep an
eye on to prepare ourselves for the big chances in our life.</span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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house can be such a big change…..</span></b></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;">— I do not know yet for this time! — even after I have moved house and
country many times. The idea I have to leave my wonderful flat and maybe from
here is disturbing and not convenient. I’ll have to un-root, I will be uprooted
and maybe even become unsettled for a while, until I find a new home. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: blue;">Through
the process of moving I hope to learn some things,</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;">like about homecoming in myself and improving my adjustment
to the changes life gives. To stay
in balance easier, whatever is happening out there. Spiritual teacher William
Bloom, a regular visitor to Findhorn, once said: “Some people are not that
sensitive to all the stimulus of the world around them, they are very
earth-bound and calm.” But like William I am not one of those people! So I’d
like to listen more to the Goddess of the Earth, Tellus, Gaia or call her Terra Mater. To become her
daughter. ‘We belong to the Earth’ and even if I might be a wandering daughter,
having lived in many places on this planet and travelling for experience and
gaining inner wisdom, I belong to this soil, to this part of the earth called
Findhorn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Christmas Star flower than it looks like at first sight. You might know the Poinsettia
—<i>Euphorbia pulcherrima — </i>as a cheery,
easy houseplant which is flowering around Christmas and reaches around 30-40
cm. But the plant comes from a tropical climate, originally Mexico, where it is
a shrub and can grow up to four meters. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I was surprised and in joy to meet some of these tree-like beauties earlier
this month when I was visiting La Gomera, one of the Canary islands. Its large green
leaves slowly, wonderfully change into an overwhelming feast of bright red and
orange flowers. It receives the light. It allows the light. This reminds me of
Winter Solstice, when we, after some dark months here up in the north, are
quite ready for the turning of the sun and receiving its light again; the
rebirth of the Sun. Like the Poinsettia we dance to the Light. The Mother (of
Auroville in India) received the following, as guidance from the over-lighting
being of the Poinsettia: “Opening of the vital to the Divine love- little by
little it is no longer the ego that governs, but the Divine.” Read it again. I
need some practise to bring this into my life, how about you?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;">What stays with me,
except the plant’s beautiful colours, is this ‘allowing the light in’. Allowing
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With their flowing manes they come to us through our myths
and fairytales. Descends from the Przewalksi wild horses from the steppes of
central Asia were domesticated and when the human was welcome on the back of
this wild mammal, it made a huge difference. It changed history. A horse is seen as nobler than any
other animal. A beautiful animal, true, as well as intelligent and faithful.
Different, but for me not necessarily worth more than a panther, elephant or
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In my youth on a Dutch farm we had a heavy Belgian draught
horse, before the tractors were introduced. We had sheep, chickens, sometimes
goats, but most of all we had cows. Many cows with calves, young bulls and
heifers. When my parents started their dairy farm at the beginning of the II
World War, my father had bought one cow. A cow is not just a cow; there are
many kinds. And they’re not as stupid as their reputation tells us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyway, our farm started with Hoekstra 5, one of those
world famous black and white cattle breeds for milk production called Fries-Hollands.
Generations of Hoekstras lived on the farm, until recently, when my retiring
brother and sister-in-law ended the farm. Only after leaving home, did I get to
know other cattle breeds, like the Dutch<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
Lakenvelder</i> and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Groninger
Blaarkop</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(Groningen white headed cow)</i> and then, in the 70s, as soon as the
quota on milk production was introduced, foreign breeds for dual purpose (milk
and beef production) were imported. Larger Holstein-Friesians, Italian meaty
Piedmontese calves, the Limousin and beautiful white Blonde d’Aquitaine, both
at home on French plains, and the Jersey cow. I like cows. Like cows, chickens
or pigs, there are many horse breeds too. I ‘m just not so familiar with them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We hunt animals, eat them or have them as pets and
companions near the home or farmstead. It makes me believe these animals
committed themselves to be with us humans, even if we think we are the boss and
owner. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The native American Indians as well as the Celtic druids
said every person has a power or totem animal. Animals as symbols of healing
power. Each animal shows us behaviour patterns in which we can discover healing
messages; free for us to use. You don’t ‘horse around’ with these powers. The
white stallion brings the shield and power of wisdom and teaches that misuse of
power never leads to wisdom. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: white;">On my
photo I show you one of the </span><span style="color: white;">beautiful horses and Shetland ponies (horses of a small breed) while grazing at
Cullerne Gardens of Findhorn.</span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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adrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039850014892203048noreply@blogger.com0Findhorn, Moray, UK57.659000000000013 -3.6109999999999957.642010000000013 -3.65134049999999 57.675990000000013 -3.57065949999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416011635606095700.post-79378990165677006482014-11-05T14:18:00.000+00:002014-11-05T14:18:31.663+00:00Time, just time? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;">Time is an odd phenomenon don’t you think
so too? I give my example, but
you’ll have yours. Last week I went to the isle of Iona on the Scottish west
coast. Cannot remember how long I had not been there, surely calendar years!
How could it be, that arriving there, I felt as if I had only left it last
month, or even last week? Everything felt so familiar: its sea of the ‘Sound of
Iona’, its colourful rocks, its 'Traigh Bhan nam Manach’ the White Beach of the
Monks; with the house Traigh Bhan and Robbie, the warm Rayburn, which invites
us to bake our own bread and spend lots of time in its cosy kitchen… On Iona
time runs differently.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;">Time slips, time loss or a déjà vu, it’s
all so much easier to happen during these days at the end of October and the
beginning of November; around Halloween or Samhain, as we call the Celtic festival celebrating the
Celtic New Year in the Wheel of the Year; in the Wheel of Time. It is said that
the veil between the dimensions is thinner. This would make it easier to
connect from our world to the invisible world, the ‘other side’. In many
cultures this has been practised: by the Native Americans, by the Celtic druids
and even the Christians copied it from the Celts and called it All Saints Day
and All Souls Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Time to honour
the beloved ones who aren’t in a human body anymore. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In our physical world a lot
of us believe in the separation: ‘here’ are the living, ‘there’ are the
dead. But maybe we all are living
souls and we are not <i>that</i> much separated? Maybe there are more dimensional shifts. I like to believe
that. My birthday is always in
this Samhain time, and I’m interested in this ‘twilight zone’ in which time and
sometimes even spaces overlap. Time only seems to exist for observers inside
our universe. It is said that even physicists, although having trouble with this
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;">I show you here a favourite photo I made of
the colourful rocks at the north side of Iona. There is a deep pool or hole
inside, maybe to disappear and swim to the ‘other side’? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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adrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039850014892203048noreply@blogger.com0Iona, Scotland37.09024 -95.712891000000013-36.4181565 99.052733999999987 90 69.521483999999987tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416011635606095700.post-77369375275488476532014-10-03T21:12:00.000+01:002014-10-04T16:43:08.086+01:00Being young and visible, my ‘Youth @ Findhorn’ project.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Youth.
Young people.</b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> Gosh, it’s easy to forget we’ve all been young ourselves, as
every generation seems to express this period in life in its own, new way, don’t
we? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before last year, when I saw
youngsters at the bus stop, hidden under their hoods, it sometimes made me feel
uncomfortable. It is easy to imagine some people even being scared of them.
Then I remembered my own teenage years, which were the worst of my life. I was
a girl living in the countryside, going to school in a small village. I was so
unhappy, so insecure, so damaged and I tried to hide it by acting the opposite
way. I remember a photo made when I was 15, and now I feel a lot of compassion
for the girl I was then. Without judgement or rejection. When you have
children, you often relive these years during their adolescence, but I don’t
have nor live with young people myself here.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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all made me want to get to know more about the young people of nowadays. The modern
youth around me is living in a rural area like I do. I felt curious (and
courageous at times) to photograph and interview them and make a project of it:
‘Youth @ Findhorn’. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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people around me in Findhorn know my photographic work of landscapes, flowers, seascapes;
they know my community event photos and books. Why suddenly people? They ask.
But In the past I photographed —in waves— nature (non-human part) and people.
Activists, female farmers, 50+ women, habitants of a rural village, and some of
these projects have become books. Working with people can be intense,
satisfying as well as demanding, I tell you; a flower does not commend or
resist being portrayed. Humans or nature, in either situation I have to connect
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;">The young
people I contacted I then interviewed with questions about their situation at
the moment, at home, education or work; their hopes and aspirations for their
future; how it is to live in a village, especially in Findhorn? I had to have
the written agreement of their parents, who also, like the portrayed
themselves, read back the interview, and together we made corrections if
needed. They were involved in the choice of the end result photograph and they
saw the edited summary of the text. In most cases this was a graceful process.
Some people did not want to be part of the project and some others withdrew
during, alas. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;">Looking
back I think the young people shown in the series were very brave. The series
shows their hopes, their sometimes insecurity but often their strength and
wisdom. It felt like an honour to make them visible and to help other people to
get to know this group better. As some visitors at the exhibition at the Moray
Art Centre wrote as feedback <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Extraordinary & deeply inspiring work.
Mesmerising”</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Thank you for giving
a very interesting insight into this unusual and privileged group of children</i>.”
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I indeed wanted to allow these wonderful young people to be seen and
heard. Last September (2013) I showed a small part of the series in the
Universal Hall, these two last weeks I exhibited an extended series in the
Moray Art Centre (24 September – 5 October 2014); which was part of the 1<sup>st</sup>
Findhorn Bay Art festival last weekend. In the Scottish newspaper Press &
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i><span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">October 2014, photos & text © Adriana Sjan Bijman</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>It might be that coming month Scotland, ‘my’ country — as I
live here— goes independent. And maybe not. With joy I received my poll card
for The Scottish Independence Referendum <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">It feels as such an honour to vote for this on
the 18</span><sup><span lang="EN-US">th</span></sup><span lang="EN-US"> of September: the choice of independence
for a country, without any war needing to be fought first</span><span lang="EN-US">. </span>Having the choice of voting ‘Yes’ or
voting ‘No’. The Referendum brings up lots of discussion, also in our Findhorn
Foundation Community and I think this to be very positively, whatever the
outcome will be. A neighbour’s window, which says: “Hope not fear, Dare to vote
Yes”, makes me smile every time I pass it. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I just learned that it is not Scotland’s first attempt to
be independent; the oldest surviving document about this fact is from 1320 when
the Scots issued a ‘declaration of independence’ to be freed from English
aggression and its dominating power and become its own sovereignty. Not far away
from Findhorn lies Culloden Battlefield, which is an old wound in the
country’s history. But personally I feel this independence moves away from the
past and has all to do with wishing to decide its own future, more than
Hollyrood (where the Scottish government resides) can do now. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This all reminds me of my own and our inter-dependence. I
live alone and although I am not depending on a special relationship and as
such could be called ‘an independent woman’ in the traditional sense, in the
modern sense I am as inter-dependent as anybody else, as a human being. We all
are depending, in the first place on nature, on the Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we are also depending on our
friends, in a light —hopefully healthy— way, as they are depending on us. I am inter-dependent
of my customers, friends and acquaintances, people who already know my graphic
and photo work, who for instance ask me to do some design work for their
business or who buy some notebooks from my studio or a photo book from the
online web shop…. We serve each other.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, if it will be a ‘Yes’, may we become neighbours who
service each other well, who realise they are inter-dependent, both part of
Europe. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The pictures I chose are about the interdependence in
nature like between this intertwined group of cactuses in Jujuy in the north of
Argentina. </span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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adrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039850014892203048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416011635606095700.post-79715532155201451612014-07-31T17:52:00.000+01:002014-08-02T13:42:52.821+01:00El Camino de Santiago de Compostela <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Over the
last weeks I visited Santiago de Compostela for its university. My study
Spanish this year included one residential week at this prestigious university,
which is known to be one of the best of Spain with over five centuries of
history. I imagine it attracted philosophers, searchers and thinkers amongst
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">peregrinos</i>, the pilgrims on their
Camino. Santiago became a ‘highway of knowledge’ a diffuser of the great
cultural and artistic movements that emerged in Europe some centuries ago. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Imagine,
until the ninth century, this town was all forest, named Libredón. In its
middle was a Roman Sepulchre and there, in the ruins of its primitive burial,
it is said the remains of one of Jesus’ apostles, Santiago, were discovered.
The today majestic Santiago de Compostela Cathedral was build on top of it and
the town became one of Europe’s most popular places of Christian pilgrimage. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not for Christian reasons, but for my own personal and spiritual quest,
I walked my one-day stage of the Camino. From Santiago de Compostela through
the old oak groves towards Finis terrae ‘the end of the world’, on the
Fisterra-Muxía Way. The weather was hot, the landscape mountainous and my
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was great! It was quiet on the Camino with twenty-two whole kilometres to
</span><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">contemplate. Then, when I thought I was lost, I met a wonderful woman and
helper, as happens on the Camino. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the sleepless night afterwards I was reminded of another Spanish route I had
taken some years ago. With the sweet memories of the relationship that followed,
the poem below came up. <o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just before my travel I
read about <a href="http://www.cherylstrayed.com/" target="_blank">Cheryl Strayed</a>’s thousand miles hike, and I agree with her when
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>I still see her<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>walking towards me<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>in the old olive grove<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Ripe and juicy like the new
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>mysterious as the wild trees
themselves in their<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>being, coming from another
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>It was somewhere down south<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>I saw her again <o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>reaching these green valleys
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Lots of luck in your life!)</span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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adrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039850014892203048noreply@blogger.com0Santiago de Compostela39.909736234537192 -2.460937514.888185234537193 -43.7695315 64.9312872345372 38.8476565tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416011635606095700.post-17171829868055169032014-06-28T16:26:00.001+01:002014-06-28T16:29:16.544+01:00Day and Night, Dark and Light<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Tree blossoms at Findhorn - Dark & Light</span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>We’re living the longest days of the year
here in the northern hemisphere. The nights feel too short to rest from the at
times overwhelming intensity of the light. Some friends have put up extra curtains
to be able to sleep in the dark. A
song, well known here in our community, says, “Be still and know that day and
night, that dark and light, are one holy circle.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>During these two weeks three community
members left their body to rise into the realm of the Light. Well, after a
challenging end in the physical, I believe that’s where they’ll be going. To
the Light. <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>For this month’s entry of my Light
Scribble I chose an image of young trees still in blossom in my garden against a
dark background, a play of dark and light. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>The Mother, in one of her guided messages
about white flowers tells us in ‘The Spiritual Significance of Flowers’ that “white
light is the light of the Divine Consciousness in its essence. In this white
light all other lights are contained and from it they can be manifested, for
this reason white also indicates integrality, completeness and totality,
especially the integrality of the being in all its parts, from the physical
being to the true self.” <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>So take a deep breath. Inhale the light.
Let the white flowers enter our heart and trust their light will shine on the
darkness. </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>To know this brightens my day.</b></span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>© photo and text: © Adriana Sjan Bijman, June 2014</i></b></span></div>
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adrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039850014892203048noreply@blogger.com0Findhorn, Moray, UK57.659000000000013 -3.6109999999999957.642010000000013 -3.65134049999999 57.675990000000013 -3.57065949999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416011635606095700.post-36259596902932411822014-05-23T20:21:00.002+01:002014-05-23T20:24:51.170+01:00The divine and devil in ‘El Pico del Teide’ <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For the
third time I visited ‘el Teide’, the most important volcano on the ocean island
Tenerife. This May I came from the south of the island, which is said to have been a desert
for millennia. Again El Pico del Teide
—the Teide Peak— impressed me with its bare moon-like landscape. The soil seems
fresh erupted ‘black lava’ of hard rock fragments; on other places it is covered
with gentle hills of cream coloured sand dust, which actually is volcanic ash. Like what came down from Iceland some
years ago, remember? Nothing grows on it. Its earth seems as dead as the native
aboriginal people the Guanches, who lived on the islands until the Spanish
conquerors arrived at the end of the 15<sup>th</sup> century. The Guanches
believed in the mythology of the Teide and many legends survived, telling us of
its divine legacy. It was thought the Teide held the most devilish forces in
its crater. Personally I can understand some of that, as a decade ago our suspicious
German workshop leader felt drawn to jump into the crater, believing we all
would be saved by extraterrestrials. Tenerife is known for its UFO connection. So
glad the jump was prevented by the local police!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--StartFragment--><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nowadays the island lives
off the more attractive energies of tourism and the banana export. You see their
polytunnels everywhere. Like the
native Canary Pine tree the residents have adapted to live off what the land can
offer — or they moved away. The
abundantly growing pine tree is fire resistant, from blackened trunks they
simply rise again into the green. They
possess an amazing water-collecting system in their leaves to survive the long
periods of drought. It only rains 14 days a year. What a difference with
Scotland! We enjoyed the sunshine and warm breezes that cooled down the island. Thank you, beautiful island of Tenerife!</span></div>
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adrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039850014892203048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416011635606095700.post-75853757784053990152014-05-20T20:06:00.003+01:002014-05-23T20:27:13.530+01:00Tulpomania<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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lived in Haarlem in the Dutch Golden Age, the 17th century. She became the
first female ‘Master painter’ and had, like her colleague Frans Hals, a studio
and students. To my surprise I once found myself in tears in front of the
original oil painting of her self-portrait, hanging in the Frans Hals Museum,
in the picturesque ancient street Klein Heiligland in Haarlem. Since I
‘discovered’ her during my art education in the early eighties, I always loved
her work. It radiates self-confidence and “joie de vivre”. She inspires me four
centuries later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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her famous oil portraits, she painted tulips, lots of tulips on paper. Her
tulip books became very popular and became the first visual catalogues for
tulip traders during the ‘Tulpomania’ and its speculation that hit the
Netherlands and made the bourse crash in 1635.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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still lies in the middle of a tulip area. I have great memories of living in
that town at the river Spaarne during several episodes of my live. Think of the
Netherlands and many people automatically think of tulips, so the famous
Keukenhof flower show made ‘Holland’ their theme this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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all flowers I have photographed, tulips have their own unique place, as I
always loved them. I created this image to honour the tulip and Judith Leyster.</b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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adrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039850014892203048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416011635606095700.post-62218109922327401202014-03-29T21:50:00.000+00:002014-03-29T21:53:06.045+00:00Moving, dancing, swirling around <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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month’s favourite is a dance image. Look at those odd movements made during
Scottish Ceilidh dances! What is it all about? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;">We’re fortunate
to have lots of dance performances, shows and workshops here at Findhorn. Since
the start of our community creative expression has been important. In 1975 Bernard
Wosien brought the sacred circle dances to Findhorn. Here they received a home,
developed and later on circled outwards using the Findhorn’s way of attunement,
sharing and blessing into the rest of the world. In the 90s the Celtic
Festivals with Peter Vallance brought a new kind of dances. Nowadays there are
a huge variety of dance practices, from Biodanze, 5 Rhythms to Astroshamanic
Trance Dance. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s all about moving,
dancing, swirling around and around…. And this is how my life feels at the
moment. Spring has arrived, securing <b>new
beginnings.</b> But where did the idea spring from that those beginnings only
would bring positive change? Every tiny fragile new tree bud knows it will
magically blossom in the spring sunshine, accompanied by a gentle rain now and
then. But while opening into a delicate blossom it might be surprised by a
spring shower or even by an all-destructive wind and hail storm. It’s taking a
huge risk in showing itself. It will be moved, danced and
swirled around and its strength will be severely tested. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">It
must be in for a bit of a blow. </span></span></div>
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‘new beginnings’ are not guaranteed to start positively. Don’t tell me! As here
I am, shifted, switched and swirled around by life. Some roughly opened old
scars about love and trust reveal ‘the mess I made’ (<i>free to Amy Winehouse’s
song):</i> loss, disappointment and grief under the anger. It can be a long
lasting dance into the exhaustion of resist. Or until a fresh wind brings the
insight that actually a good thing is happening: old challenged perceptions and
pains need to be released first, gently or by force. Is this all present from a
deeper need to heal and grow? Is that its main reason for materializing in our
lives? As long as I engage with, submit and surrender myself to the movements
of this dance, while seeing it as a kind of spring clean before I myself can
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the tears and the passion”. Come on, I found some beautiful blossoms for in
your hair.<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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communicates the impact of light better than this colourful play? It reminds me
of the Catalan theatre company Els Comediants, who iden</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">tifi</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">es</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> with the
festive spirit of human existence. The goal is not only to open our eyes but
also to be a theatre for the senses. It seems to me that the light in the
impressive cathedral in the old city of Palma wants to do just that. There is no separation between the light
from the heavens and the space it illuminates. The floor space is like a stage.
The stage is the place for the collective experience of the audience, while we
entered as spectator in the house of the Gods. The benches are waiting for the
Heathen and Pagan worshippers of an ancient Sun God. I sit down. As the sun
caresses my skin, the fragrance of warm oak wood enters my nostrils.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Like many
Christian churches, ‘La Seu’, the Roman catholic cathedral in Catalan-gothic
style was built on the site of a pre-existing mosque. Lying above the old Roman
citadel, it overlooks the emerald and turquoise Mediterranean and from the
southern coasts you sometimes still hear the late afternoon Asr prayers calling
to the island, while a breeze wafts along the mouth-watering smell of spiced
couscous with roasted almonds. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Visiting
this ‘Tierra sagrada’* l am moored to the full spectrum of bright colours
falling down from the rosette shaped windows. In this house I am moored to the
beauty of Nature. Is this world not meant to be one wonderful big House, in
which we can make love, create compassion and culture? As well as separation, skirmish
and suffering, if we choose so…. I ponder over it while the light enters me. It
makes me think in the colours of my heart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">© Adriana Sjan Bijman </span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo:
Palma de Mallorca, Easter 2011, text: Findhorn, February 2014. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">*holy
ground</span></i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">. </span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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