My Generation – ‘Roar of the Crowd’ (chapter 16)
Performing Arts are gathering momentum within the community and further afield.
My Generation – Mother Love (chapter15)
Many of us young parents were struggling and in our play group attunements it was often a relief to be able to talk about the challenges.
Celebrating Jill
I wrote this article for the Rainbow Bridge to encourage the sharing of stories about Jill's community involvement to generate positive memories. I was pleased to be asked by the COIF team to add it
Georgina Towers – obituary
This obituary was written by Danny Towers. It was published in the Guardian on Wed 1st Jan 2025.
A Love Letter to Findhorn on my 80th Birthday
On January 7th, 2025, I turn 80 years old. There’s no particular merit in this by itself. All one has to do is ride the Earth around the sun, and each time it does this, we can add another number to our chronology...
The Promise of Light
Please accept this present to honour and celebrate the Festival of Light that is taking place in many cultures and traditions during this special time of the year. “The Promise of Light” was created at Findhorn in December 1985 and shared at the Christmas Eve gathering in the Universal Hall.
Obituary – Alan Jacobsen (2008)
I wrote this obituary for my father Alan. It was then reworked by Michael Hawkins and published in the Independent on 29th April 2009. Alan was born in the Scottish Borders on the 23rd March
Catering for Community (1985)
This article was previously published in One Earth magazine Volume 5 Issue 3, in March/April 1985. *** Last September a lively discussion arose in the weekly attunement of the Park kitchen group around the need
From Tree to Carpentry – Creating the New Sanctuary Benches
It was the 12th of April, 2021 when both the Community Centre and Sanctuary, the heart and soul of what is now called the Park Ecovillage Findhorn, went up in flames through an act of
Ecologia: How it Began
The year was 1988. The world was in a state of change, and Gorbachev had brought forth the idea of Perestroika and Glasnost. There was an excitement amongst forward thinkers that peace and connectedness with
