October 2023

The magic of Mandala House continues and while there’s no real rhythm to the days yet, there’s a beautiful chaos and melting pot of people and possibilities. With so many ideas to sift through about making the house more beautiful and comfortable, I feel like the carousel whirl can begin to slow down a little soon. 

This week in the house, we have Mark Charlton gardening, dancing and cooking and asking me if we have miso. Pete Lawrence is here from Paros, in service to what wants to be created, urging me to words, websites and all manner of wonderful ways of seeing what’s here to be explored. And taking amazing photos. Funny how just as I was getting disillusioned with the divine masculine, two showed up at once. With Anne K Scott, my coach and friend, we go down to the elegant white spaciousness of the Horizon Hotel for imagination coaching and financial dreaming, and then Eva Weaver is here expanding time and planning next year's Writing from the Body retreat. 

The desks are in situ in the olive press and morning pages are written with a view of layers of mists as the sun rises. 

Throw in ecstatic dance, shared meals, lighting candles for a sound immersion, Osho tarot, restorative yoga, and afternoons naked at the beach, some sense is emerging of how connections shift and change and the constancy need only be in the safety and beauty of the house that holds us all. It’s moving breathtakingly fast at times and the question arises for all of us of how to find time to write and reflect, work in other realms & find private time and space. 

And we know it’s all only possible one thing at a time, to appreciate what and who is here, to meet life as it happens, to be surprised and awed, to enjoy the late afternoon moments of heat, sunlight on the water, winding roads through the olive trees for croissants from the bakery at Kavadades, cocktails at Ina’s and the high view from Afionas as the sun finally drops into the night sea.