My name is Carolin, and I have been living in Findhorn for the past five years, taking on various roles - from managing the GEN office to organizing musical retreats with community musician Barbara Swetina
Take one very enthusiastic, community-minded person, add in a love and a talent for music, and a joy in helping to set up new things - and you end up with Ken Walker and the recently established Findhorn Ukulele Group.
"What if [...] we don’t have much time or choice in the matter, we’d better make the most of everything by living each day to the full in the most loving caring passionate way we can.”
Having tasted utopia and survived I found the greatest gift was the revelations I witnessed when faced with the dynamics of all kinds of diverse people coming together in a spirit of openness and co-operation.
I began a new and painful cycle, learning to accept that when fullness has been reached, there comes a time of emptying, a death, a rebirth.
We were nearing the end of the halcyon years of the '70s and everything that was seen as nonessential, extraneous, frivolous, was being dismantled – as in any recession – the arts were the first to suffer.
Sometimes you have to ‘go round-the-bend’ in order to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Putting up resistance in the face of difficulty only makes it worse, let it be, accept it, and no matter how hard, the key to changing it – is to love – that’s all you need. By our own power we can do nothing but be a channel, its love that loves through us; to put aside the ego, the small self (that always seeks retaliation) is to be a channel for love.
The three commandments to the Artist: Thou must start, Thou must not fear, Thou must be true to your own dreams.
You have to have a vision and you have to have faith.
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I live very simply in this land I love. On returning to the area with my daughter Jade, I found joy in volunteering in the life of the Community; until Covid, then everything changed.
