Plukrijp Newsletter – 2023 week 15

News of the Plukrijp Family

Niels and Vera became the happy and proud parents of the little Till, a beautiful and healthy son who was born on April 11. All our congratulations and our wishes of happiness.

This week @ Plukrijp

We did:

We had our first meal of the year in the veranda! It feels so good to eat (nearly) outside!

We visited the permaculture project of our friend Georges at the Vevy Wéron farm near Namur. It is always a real pleasure to share our common experiences and to inspire each other.

Pooja from India (but living in Leuven) came to visit us and brought a couple of friends who have a farm in India. There, too, interesting discussions took place.

We made the design of Mathias’ permaculture garden. It is one of Plukrijp’s functions to help establish a plan that combines high productivity and low cost.

Tim spent a few days with us. With Bram, he transformed a closet that we no longer knew what to do with into a new ‘chicken condo’ for the food forest. He also took a lot of wonderful pictures which I will publish in future newsletters. Thanks a lot Tim!

Many children made their laughter ring out in Plukrijp during this second week of the Easter holidays: Nore, Warre, Ilan, Andréas and Rosalie. They helped us with sowing, planting and…cleaning the roof of the veranda and the plastic kot. What happiness!

Anouk gave us the gift of coming to Plukrijp to celebrate her birthday here and baked a delicious chocolate cake. All our best wishes for this new year of life!

Annette, a regular at Plukrijp for many years, came to share one of our meals. It’s nice to be able to share our lives with ease.

We moved the seedlings from last week in the veranda to create some room in the greenhouse for the new ones: we seeded the next generation of corn, pumpkin, cucumber, melon, sunflowers & zucchini in pots.

We scratched both sides of closed tunnel 1.

We planted red beets in closed tunnels 1, 2 & 3 to fill the empty spaces.

In open tunnel 1, we weeded both sides and planted potatoes between the corn salad.

In open tunnel 2, we scratched the left side between the beetroots and seeded beetroot and spinach on the right side.

In open tunnel 4, we scratched the center bed and seeded there low beans and garlic on the sides.

We had a big cleanup of the workshop.

We cleaned up the still empty spaces at the back of open tunnel 3 and planted flower bulbs there.

Pieter’s plants found a place at the front of the open tunnels and in the food forest.

We have started removing the ivy that is choking the tall trees behind the trailers at the back of the food forest. We could hear the sighs of relief…

Inspiring Movie

Voir Saint-Jacques… La Mecque

(from the same director as ‘La Belle Verte’)

https://club.streammit.me/film/5171/

Clara, Pierre and Claude learn of their mother’s death. But in her will she writes that her children will only inherit if they make together, and without ever separating, the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. Only “problem”, Clara, Pierre and Claude hate each other as much as they hate walking. Yet they set off baited by the heritage. They will be accompanied by a group of pilgrims in which they will meet Guy, their guide, Mathilde, a young woman coming out of chemotherapy, Camille, a high school student who has just had her baccalaureate and her friend Elsa, Said a Muslim high school student, in love of Camille, as well as his cousin Ramzi, whom he made believe that they were going to Mecca.

Inspiring Video

The Art of Transparent Communication

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5JKlR_6YGM&list=PLH7TTHfxNdKNVfl9xk-D4y8ZmA-bKuIhi

Thomas dives deep into the concept of Transparent Communication – a practice that creates an open and grounded relational space where constructive and creative communication can occur. This form of communication combines the interconnected data streams of cognitive, emotional, and physical information that are always present in any conversation.

He explores how, when we become attuned to these transmissions from others’ nervous systems, and are consciously creating coherent transmissions from our own, we can establish a deep connection that’s rich in intimacy and free from reactivity.

Key points include:

• How we can become curious observers of our reactions to difficult situations in order to stay grounded and ease tension.

• How traumatic experiences, especially in childhood, create fragmentation within the mental, emotional, and physical information that we transmit, and this can lead to reactivity and conflict.

• How Transparent Communication allows us to recognize subtle transmissions of information through all of our senses, and how that awareness radiates out to those around us.

The windshield wiper

https://psyche.co/films/surreal-vignettes-form-a-meditation-on-love-in-this-oscar-winning-short?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=94d780eb6a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_04_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-e7995480d9-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

Surreal vignettes form a meditation on love in this Oscar-winning short

While chain-smoking cigarettes in a noisy café, a man wonders aloud: ‘What is love?’ From this starting point, the Oscar-winning animated short The Windshield Wiper (2021) contemplates this enduring question via a series of loosely tethered vignettes, depicting human connection in many of its complexities and contradictions. In his vision, the Spanish director Alberto Mielgo presents the concept as, by turns, ephemeral, exciting, tragic, passionate and poignant. A woman and man exchange fleeting glances at a motel before retreating into their rooms. An older man stands still in front of a grave adorned with fresh flowers. Text messages bounce off a satellite dish and back to Earth, relaying two lovers’ messages the day after a first tryst. A young woman takes her own life.

Mielgo is perhaps best known for some of the oddest and most ambitious entrées in Netflix’s animated sci-fi anthology series Love, Death & Robots (2019-). His unmistakable 3D style adorns realistically proportioned bodies and backgrounds with impressionistic flourishes. Here, his magnetic visuals work alongside the central theme to join the disparate sequences into a hazy whole. This magical realist sensibility proves to be a perfect canvas for his patchwork meditation, which, drawn from his own experiences, still feels expansive and, at times, surely relatable for most viewers. Standing in stark contrast to more idealistic and romantic depictions of love presented on film, and especially in animation, Mielgo builds a work that endeavours to be as disjointed and surreal, as opaque and multifarious, as the experience itself.

Written by Adam D’Arpino

Inspiring Link

The Free World Charter

The Free World Charter is a statement of principles that has the potential to optimise life on Earth for all species, eradicate poverty and greed, and advance progress.

Neither political nor religious, these ten short principles could form the foundation of a new, advanced society that uses no money, is free, fair and sustainable. They are based solely on nature, common sense and survival.

The Free World Charter is now widely considered a logical progression out of the failing mechanisms of today’s society, and a natural step in our evolution.

Read the Charter: https://freeworldcharter.org/en

Inspiring Book

What do desire and passion have to do with our spiritual journey? According to A. H. Almaas and Karen Johnson, they are an essential part of it.

Conventional wisdom cautions that desire and passion are opposed to the spiritual path—that engaging in desire will take you more into the world, into egoic life. And for most people, that is exactly what happens. We naturally tend to experience wanting in a self-centered way. The Power of Divine Eros challenges the view that the divine and the erotic are separate. When we open to the energy, aliveness, spontaneity, and zest of erotic love, we will find it inseparable from the realm of the holy and sacred. When this is understood, desire and passion become a gateway to wholeness and to realizing our full potential.

The authors reveal how our relationships become opportunities on the spiritual journey to express ourselves authentically, to relate with openness, and to discover dynamic inner realms with another person. Through embodying the energy of eros, each of us can learn to be fully real and alive in all of our interactions.

Wisdom