Posted on vr 08 mei 2020 in contemplation • Tagged with contemplation, meditation
Contemplate the following saying by Lao Tzu:
Sow a thought, reap a word;Sow a word, reap an action;Sow an action, reap a habit;Sow a habit, reap a character;Sow a character, reap a destiny.
Key insights:
Posted on wo 19 februari 2020 in workshop • Tagged with workshop, permaculture, 9 ways of observing, forms of capital, bullet journaling, dragon dreaming, dreaming circle, community, life design, social design, 4 questions, vision, mental inventory
This workshop is in response to a question from Ana and Gábor for help with finding direction in their lives. The outline below is based on the process I followed for the design of my own life with additional resources from books, websites and blog posts I have read and …
Posted on do 28 november 2019 in tools
This learning journey or guided journaling is sourced from precencing institute. See their guided journaling description for more details.
Look at yourself from outside as if you were another person: What are the 3 or 4 most important challenges or tasks that your life (work and non-work) currently …
Posted on di 26 november 2019 in blog • Tagged with experiment
I have been making bread regularly since 2017. As I look through the photo's I have made over the years I notice quite a shift in how I do things now versus how I did them when I started out.
Notable changes:
Posted on za 21 september 2019 in surveys • Tagged with permaculture, survey, site information, urban design, mapping, building design
Ina and I live in a house in a bloc constructed in 1957. Our house is a terraced house; we share two side walls with our neighbors. The house has three floors: the ground floor, the first floor and the attic.
Over the last years, Ina and I have …
Posted on wo 28 augustus 2019 in blog • Tagged with experiment, season: summer
This is a list of experiments Ina and I have been conducting in July and Augst of 2019. Some things I put under several headings as they contain elements of both.
Posted on di 20 augustus 2019 in blog • Tagged with experiment
A few days ago a friend and I set out to do an experiment in distilling alcohol from a fermented sugar solution.
On 2019-04-13, I put the sugar ferment together as follows:
Yeast starter:
Sugar solution:
Posted on ma 12 augustus 2019 in tools • Tagged with PMI, CARVER matrix
This tool is an extension of a PMI analysis. It uses six categories for ranking. Where in a PMI the focus is on finding plusses and minusses in which ever way you can think of, the CARVER matrix specifies what to think about and the focus is on ranking those …
Posted on ma 22 april 2019 in surveys • Tagged with permaculture, survey, backyard, site information, PASTE, DAFOR(N)
This survey is part of designing the backyard.
The extra information for each plant is derived from the following sources:
Posted on ma 15 april 2019 in surveys • Tagged with permaculture, food forest design, Nuenen, PASTE, season: spring
This is part of the design for a food forest in Nuenen.
This year we did a new PASTE survey. Data gathered 2019-04-15. See also the previous PASTE survey.
In this section we list the available plants, animals, structures, tools and events we have observed directly or indirectly at the …