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.
10 Ideas to Help You Write
1. Join a writing group 2. Create a specific time each day to write and do it 3. Free write poetry at least once a day 4. Invest in a favourite writing pen or pencil - mine is a mechanical soft lead pencil. 5. Take a photo and write a creative story around the photo....
My Big Commitment
I suck at writing. Not the actual words.. but the act of sitting down to do it. I want to be good at it - I want to blog every day or at the very least twice a week.. but if you look at my blog until now you will see that simply has never happened. So why not? It...
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...