Contemplation on cycles

Posted on zo 12 januari 2025 in contemplation

My overview of the cycles as I have encountered them or studied as part of Systems Thinking and Permaculture.

  • observations
    • a cycle is observing an aspect of reality and noting
      • the aspect seems to change
      • the aspect seems to regularly return to a similar previous configuration
    • our notion of time …

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Tools for Personal and Spiritual Development

Posted on zo 12 januari 2025 in blog

I have done and tried a lot of different things.

The list below is probably not complete. I will try to give a brief overview of the tool and what it aims to achieve, based on my (limited) understanding and how it has helped me.

  • Lindyhop Dancing

    I call it …


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The Allotment - wrapping up

Posted on di 31 december 2024 in blog

I have decided end my contract with the allotment association. A number of factors have lead to this decision.

The allotment was evolving towards a miniature food forest. This meant that regular maintenance came down to mowing the "unwanted" plants about once a month.

I have found my enthousiasm for …


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Experiments in 2024

Posted on di 31 december 2024 in blog • Tagged with experiment

This is a list of experiments Ina and I have been conducting in 2024.

  • gardening
    • the fifth, and final year of having an allotment garden
    • cleaning out the allotment garden and distributing the plants to other gardeners
    • helping out at Proeftuin Meerhoven
  • spiritual development
    • morning pages
    • bullet journaling
    • regular meditation …

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PASTE survey allotment garden (2024)

Posted on vr 20 december 2024 in surveys • Tagged with permaculture, survey, PASTE, garden design, Eindhoven, season: summer

Starting from September 2018, Ina and I have rented an allotment at an association nearby. Ina quit the allotment in January 2023. I have ended our contract with the association in December 2024.

This survey lists the species found in the garden in 2024.

This list is part of the …


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Patterns in Business

Posted on vr 31 mei 2024 in tools • Tagged with thinking in patterns

Some of the patterns most businesses will face at some point.

  • legal structure
  • record keeping
    • bookkeeping
      • what counts as business expense
      • what counts as income
      • is the business liable for taxes
        • VAT
        • income …

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Design: Coaching Practice

Posted on di 28 mei 2024 in designs • Tagged with permaculture, social design, design web, facilitation, dreaming circle, vision, brainstorm, mind map

Background

I recently felt a longing to do a design based on the Design Web of Looby Macnamara. An opportunity presented itself as I came into contact with Marieke, a woman who was looking for a way to reboot her business. I proposed to facilitate a design with her.

Design …


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Behind the veil

Posted on di 19 december 2023 in contemplation

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 …

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Zones

Posted on vr 15 december 2023 in tools • Tagged with zones and sectors

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

00:Your own body.
0:The base of operations under consideration.
1:Offers easy, quick access but not as immediate as zone 0.
2:Somewhat more involved access. Still regularly visited.
3 …

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Spiritual Alchemy

Posted on vr 15 december 2023 in tools • Tagged with shadow work

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 …

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