In English:

Beneath the hectic of the outside world is rest.

Beneath the chatter of everyday is silence.

Beneath the judgements of people is love.

May you find this rest, silence and love.

In Dutch:

Onder de hectiek van de buitenwereld ligt rust.

Onder het geroezemoes van alledag ligt stilte …

Zones in permaculture is a concept for roughly categorizing areas according to ease and/or frequency of access.

This is a type of shadow work. It helped me tremendously and I am thankful for having found these through the writings of John Michael Greer. He published the teachings starting in July 2021.

Back then, he wrote:

Spiritual alchemy begins with the transmutation of the emotional life. This is …

I use periodic reviews in order to keep track of the main currents in my life. The day to day is too chaotic to discern much structure. Looking back over longer periods of time teases these patterns out in the open. It's similar to canoeing in a white water river …

A peg loom is a weaving technology that has been around since at least the Vikings - and probably much longer. The loom is made of a single log with holes at regular spacings. Each hole will fit a peg. Each peg has a hole near the bottom to allow a …

Looby Macnamara's Design Web is a design process. You can read about it in her book People & Permaculture. I resonate with using its anchor points and allowing jumping between points as questions come up and get answered.

The tool gives 12 different anchor points to use as a starting point …

I have started bullet journaling on 20 December 2019. I have kept to a very minimal set of collections.

Ryder Carroll encourages you to record an intention for your bullet journaling practice. Mine is: "I want my BuJo practice to help me record the ebb and flow of my life …

• oil is used
  • in powering machines for moving / transporting
    • raw materials
    • half finished products
    • finished products
    • people
  • in these environments
    • water - boat, submarine
    • land - car, shovel, tractor, truck
    • air - airplane, helicopter, drone
  • it is also used as a basis for
    • lubricants
    • solvents (in paint, as a cleaning agent)
  • characteristics
    • oil …

Below is a list of patterns found in nature. Every pattern is a response to a specific challenge.

• branching / fractal
• circle / ring / torus
• cloud
• dome / lobe
• gradient
• hook / burdock / ogive (pointed arch)
• meander / wave / seneca curve / logistic curve
• net / web
• scattering / camouflage
• sheet
• sphere / bubble
• spiral
• streamline
• succession
• tetrahedron / triangle …