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.
Mad Foreigner Chapter 2 – Gratitude
I am back in Australia. I am almost over my culture shock! Finally I seem to have thrown off the layer of grief that I have been carrying around. I can connect again with the joy and feeling of special privilege I have had working on this crazy dam project that we...
The Mad Foreigner in India
I haven't been writing for a while because I have been struggling with the need to say what really happened on my dam building project in India. How I really feel. I realise I have been afraid to do that because I didn't want to make a 'mess'. Say the wrong thing -...
Asking Better Questions
Asking better questions (see my last post) has been a mantra for me taken from a number of very good teachers - the latest in the line being Mike Handcock and Dave Rogers of Rock Your Life. And today I have found a book on just that subject. "A More Beautiful...
Living in the Heart
Asking better questions has been a mantra since my days with Roger Hamilton - and more recently in the past years with Mike Handcock and Dave Rogers - who are all masters at the skill of asking better questions. This morning as I wrote my journal I invited my guides...
The Passing of Agee
Yesterday afternoon finally Agee - our old lady of unknown origin - kindly known as Agee - or grandmother - completed her cycle of life. She left us at around 3.30 - and by 9 the flames had all but consumed her. Agee had no family that we knew of - but her family here...
Days of Caring
Choice is always with us - I believe we have choice in all things - but sometimes the lines are somewhat blurry and it is difficult to really understand that - "Yes. I did put my hand up for this." Actually at the time, someone needed to and it looked like my job....
Stillness Within
Living in a land where few speak my mother tongue, most of the language around me is simply sound - there are many children here and none of them are silent - so it is often a cacaphony of big sound. But the sound is sound ... laughter, play - as of the birds, or even...
Intentions Awry in India
All good intentions to blog yesterday went completely awry- two subjects arose in my meditation in the morning - Finding My Inner Voice and The Qualities of Patience. Great topics for a blog. But all good intentions can come to naught in the face of 123 children...
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...