I was joking with the board that I would have to write a post with this title on it, so here it is. It’s a joke, there’s not much sense of loss here, save the effort put into trying to secure a mortgage for this property. I think the name…
Today we had a large group of supporters come to the monastery to perform a Spring clean, remove all the garbage that was left from the previous inhabitants, plant flowers, clear brush, etc. Some photos are up at Google+ here: https://plus.google.com/photos/118014954414967440482/albums/5877231419878968177 It’s always encouraging to see such support; we’re all…
A little late this year, they say, but Spring seems to have found Winnipeg at last. Today we were outside doing walking and sitting meditation; yesterday I found an old tree-stand and did some treetop meditation in the forest. Snow is almost gone, last night was the first above zero…
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.” ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations Saturday we move in to our new monastery. Today we pack everything up and tomorrow we move things. We will also take a look at the garage and see what needs to…
Below is a copy of the latest email to our Canada mailing list – if you want to join the list, visit http://www.sirimangalo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/canada ————————————————————– Dear Friends, I have confirmation on a hotel room Friday night at Days Hotel at the following address: 240 Belfield Road Etobicoke (Ontario), M9W 1H3 Canada…
Lots of news… first, my brain seems to have rewired itself following the dengue fever, so apologies if this comes out muddled. It looks like I’ll be in Canada in January… Ajaan wants me to go quickly and set up a monastery as soon as possible. He said April is…
(a.k.a. a log from overseas) Just finished our course at Chom Tong, off to Chiang Mai to tie up some loose ends, then Bangkok to get visas and do some little teaching before our trip home. The ten-day course was the best birthday gift ever; Ajaan was recovering from an…
…bring May flowers? Being born in May makes me conceited about that saying, though this year if the showers are any indication, the flowers must be dreadful. The past two nights we’ve lost a pump, a dozen lightbulbs, a fan, a breaker, and the adapter to our Internet router, all…
Yep, it’s a year again. Some newness for us, though, worth mentioning… First, we’re on a new server now; it’s still a bit unstable, not sure why, but we’re now running a 64-bit operating system, which should help with memory issues (live streaming, for example). Also, our monastery site has…
