Sometimes, our minds are open enough for powerful experiences. Most of the time, they are not. Tea can help to open our mind - to achieve the Zen mind. It is no coincidence that tea has been used for nearly a millennium to help focus the mind during meditation. It facilitates our access to the […]
Having now been through 3 big earthquakes, people in Christchurch know the problems they are facing and quickly slipped back into the routine: assessing damage and breakage, liquefaction cleanup and driving at 20 km/h through broken streets. This time around, the adaption to the circumstances happened really fast. It is amazing, how adaptable people are.
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It’s World Fair Trade Day 2011 this weekend. This year’s motto is Fair Trade Your World which I believe to mean something like ‘use your influence as consumer to move producers to embrace fair trade practices’. This is a good thing and I strongly believe in sharing the profit from retailing more evenly with the […]
… and finding it!
It is Saturday morning, eleven days after the earthquake. The dust has - quite literally - settled a little of the past 2 days.
Taking the dog on her morning walk, I started to notice that Nature has begun to get back to normal: a butterfly in all its beauty riding a lazy […]
As 2010 draws to a close, it is time to look back and contemplate about the past twelve months. It has been a year full of surprises - good and bad - for us, but the good far outweighs the bad. The Christchurch earthquake gave (and still gives) us a good rocking, but encounters with […]