Spring Walk

Nature walk around Pennyfeathers Ryde

 Thursday 12th April 2012

          Celebrate the beauty of Spring time

       

           Starting at the  public footpath  

       left of Busy Bee garden centre at 

       11a.m.

           

          Parking close by, adjacent to Tesco & golf course.

          Buses stop outside Busy Bee & Tesco

Tread lightly, tread slowly, be in harmony with nature, enjoy each moment 

For more walks and events please go to www.peaceroutes.blogspot.com

Peace sit & Peace walk

PEACE SIT & PEACE WALK

Sandown Sea Front

Saturday 31st March 2012

Meet at 2p.m. outside Dinosaur Isle entrance

Please bring something to sit on. An opportunity to share and spread peace alongside other organised peace sits and walks around the country on this day. Connecting with the major ‘Peace Sit’ event taking place in Trafalgar Square, (part of Zen Buddhist monk and teacher Thich Nhat Hanh's ‘Cooling the flames’ tour of the UK).

Make time for peace within: tread lightly, tread slowly, be in harmony with nature, enjoy each moment

Spring Equinox - Dates for your diary

Dates for your diary    

Tuesday 20th March - Spring Equinox, take advantage of the long day length and enjoy the light

Sunday 25th March beach clean will be at the river medina meet at 10.30 at the Folly, Whippingham gloves, litter pickers and bags provided

Thursday 29th March 2p.m. - 4p.m. peace meeting at conference room in Lake funeral care centre all welcome (use left hand entrance).

Saturday 31st March Peace share and walk along Sandown seafront meeting outside Dinosaur Isle entrance at 2p.m.

Starting soon 'TWIGLETS' for all budding nature reporters

 

Mandala cranes

Mother yourself

Although 'mothers day' will be a happy time for lots of mothers and children, there are also many who will find this day difficult and painful for many different reasons. Whatever your situation be kind to yourself, give yourself some tender loving care.

We can all nurture each other by making time to care for one another.  Mothering isn't just for our species, plants, animals etc. are mothers too. Milk and cheese produced by cows, goats and sheep connects us to the grass and pasture flowers that go into the milk, the pasture flowers are part of the land. Thanks to Mother earth who nourishes us every day.

More mandala cranes

War and Peace

Today, if you go online and use 'google' to search you will see the 'google' characters appear as origami models. This is to celebrate the 101st anniversary of the grand master of origami Akira Yoshizawa's birth. Origami has many benefits, click on the link to read about how therapeutic origami can be http://sites.google.com/site/origamimind/home 

Spring bumble blissed out on nectar

With this in mind it came as a surprise to learn from the next link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/6/newsid_3602000/3602189.stm the involvement of the British government in the development of the atom bomb, and that the second, and largest atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945 was named 'Fat man' after Winston Churchill. With people still suffering birth defects etc. as a consequence of those terrible events of 1945 it is timely to think about the origami 'peace crane' and the young girl who inspired the making of peace cranes throughout the world, Sadako Sasaki. Click on the link to find out more about her life story http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Sasaki
Perhaps heads of state should sit and make peace cranes before meeting with other nations leaders, to help them achieve a mindful approach to current affairs. 

Sun blessed Sunday peace walk

breath in breath out

A warm Spring morning greeted the 'peace walk' on Sunday. Mark and Angie gave a short introduction to the mindful activity drawing on the teachings of the Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. Everyone set off in silence taking in the beauty of the trees and surrounding park at Appley, soon we were setting our own pace and taking time to enjoy each moment.

Peaceful walking

 View towards the seafront at Ryde
from Appley Park

Walking in harmony with nature

Peace Walk

PEACE WALK
Sunday 11^th March 2012

Meet at 11am. by golf building
Appley Park, Ryde

Golf building Appley Park

                      Everyone welcome
Make time for peace within:

tread lightly, tread slowly, be in harmony with nature, enjoy its peace and beauty

Ref. www.peaceroutes.blogspot.com

Circles in mind

This is the last month individual peace crane mandala's will be appear on the blog, they will be replaced by an end of month update.

Rain blessings

Rain rhythms :

 'and with rainy eyes. Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth'.
From Richard ll by William Shakespeare.

It rains in my heart
As it rains on the town:
What is this languorous ache
That wounds my heart?

Gentle, the sound of rain
Battering roof and ground.
How sweet the sound of rain
For the heart in pain!

Paul Verlaine / Translated by Manu Bazzano (Zen Poems) MQ Publications Ltd.

Falling in love with mother earth TNH

Mindful words from Thich Nhat Hanh encouraging deep listening, (or in this case, reading). 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/zen-thich-naht-hanh-buddhidm-business-values


Why fall in love with a car when you can fall in love with the living things that produced the oil that keeps the cars running, that gives us paper,warmth etc. etc. The tree. The woodland Trusts mission to plant one million trees for the Queens Jubilee this year, is met by news that the new high speed2 rail link is likely to run through numerous pristine, and ancient woods and forests. These old trees are established eco systems for myriads of creatures, its well known now that biodiversity is good for the planet, so if these old trees were to be cut down the creatures that inhabit them would find it hard to survive, new saplings would possibly take decades to establish a viable habitat and shouldn't be expected to act as replacements. Old trees are special. Click on the link below to view more on this subject and how you can help.
  http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/campaigning/woodwatch/case-studies/high-speed-two/pages/default.aspx

belly button tree

March mandala

First day of March - Peace in nature



ladybird in hiding

Bee on fragrant honeysuckle

primrose

The first of March

Plum cherry blossom

plum cherry branch

cloud scape

Hazel