I first came to Findhorn around 1986 as I was looking for a family and a community. I did not stay, but kept coming back for the winter gatherings and conferences. As part of the
I moved to Findhorn in 1981 with my then wife Diana. We brought up four children across the road from the Park and that naturally took a lot of our focus. There was a feeling
A friend in South Africa suggested to me that I read ‘The Secret Life of Plants’ so I took it out of the library. On reading the final chapter, which talked about the activity with
In this video I tell the story how I came to Findhorn. First in 2005 for a Women to Women workshop, personal and spiritual development for women who love women, and then in 2017 to
I made this video during a digital storytelling course with Daniel Greenberg in the context of creating Findhorn Journey stories for the 60th Birthday of the Community on 17th November 2022. It talks about my
I entirely expected Findhorn to look fully fairy tale, with houses and buildings bulbous and cartoonish, surrounded by trolls and oversized puffy mushrooms. Seriously. That's how people can picture things in their minds. But the
It was a privilege to take part in the Founder’s Celebration as part of Findhorn’s 60th anniversary. Findhorn was so blessed and fortunate with the quality of people who gave it its start back in
Life-changing moments Thank God for irrational, embodied heart-based decisions. During my Experience Week in October 2003, that day when we go to Randolph’s Leap, I sat, in deep contemplative thought, on the rock overlooking the
We were unable to leave. My friend had walked away from his flight to Scotland but could not walk away from the airport. Every time we tried to drive out, at a certain point he
It was 1983; we were on vacation in Hawai‘i. My husband handed me a book, The Findhorn Garden. “Here,” he said. “I think you’d like this.” I started to leaf through the book: photographs of
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Retired as a Prof. at UC Berkeley, I consult on design of healing gardens in hospitals, nursing homes, and Alzheimer facilities, enjoy gardening, writing poetry and a memoir.
