Shazar's meanderings
from a life of service to Mother EarthWelcome to my blog –
it meanders through many different topics as you will see… some pure fiction – many about my life and personal views – I hope you will gain some insights from whatever your read here and that these musings will be of value to you.
Rainy Season Stir Crazy!!
The rainy season is so beautiful. True. The waterfalls are barrelling down the hillsides, the valley is an intense green - the frogs call - the crickets are in a competition with them to make the loudest sounds. But then there is the other side of this time of...
The time to move…
When it is time to move on in your life, it is not always an easy thing to do. Ties are there, connections are there - a feeling of leaving family behind - especially when the life has been intense and committed and full of heart. But even in that circumstance there...
Mother Earth, Water, Life and Death
Last week two trees lost their lives in service to our Mother Earth. I felt the pain of the trees as they were chopped and hacked to the ground. I was so angry with the wood cutter - and everyone here yelled at him and told him to stop. But it was too late for those...
When Rubbish Makes Me Cry
My tears are close just below the surface of my being hovering in the wings trying to break through what is this hypersensitivity? this pain of being that hovers so near? its triggered by such small things - the child tossing the plastic over the wall the dustbin...
Singing a Song of Freedom
There is a story I've been told. Its about a giant who lived on the top of the mountains and was very happy and full of freedom. The little people in the valley were jealous of him.. and schemed and plotted to find a way to trap him. One day they had a bright...
The Water Goddess of Our Spring
I was so fortunate today... I met the Goddess of our Spring. After the work time a few of the children and our wonderful teacher Satish Mankar and I headed down to the spring to cool off. We had been weeding and mulching our fruit trees and were all hot and sticky....
Pane Bohot Ganda Hei
Yes I am learning .. slowly slowy - some Hindi and some Marathi is coming in. Wishing someone out there would just make a chip I could insert in my left ear and hey presto instant translation! People often ask me .. "what about your day? what is that you do every day...
The Space Within
Do you know that space? That feeling behind the solar plexus, that gap? The one we often fill with our addictions? I am feeling it tonight.. I try to put a label on it.. 'homesick, alone,' looking for something outside of myself to fill it. Examine it, enter into...
The Real Secret
I am privileged to be reading Barbara Marx Hubbard's wonderful book 2012 and Beyond - and a snippet jumped out at me today - she said that the Secret was all about what you could get. But really the true Secret is all about what you can give. This resonated so deeply...
Back Home at Shikshan Gram – India
Its impossible to describe to you how I really feel about being back here.. about this sense of being at home. Its unrealistic to try to paint you a word picture of the love and happiness that is flowing in this place… how a simple time spent in the kitchen area,...