Full moon at Harnham
This week at Harnham we have a Silent Week; no one is talking, not much is happening (externally). Occasionally a monk, a novice, a Kusala House Manager or a visitor can be seen walking from one place to another, but mostly residents have retreated to the milder indoor-climate of their rooms; on Monday and Thursday some good friends came to silently offer the meal; on Tuesday Rolf appeared silently to help cooking and to silently work on our workshop.
What else? The sheep sit or stand or walk silently on the paddock, sometimes munching grass, sometimes not; the jackdaws look down at us from their chimney-nest, breaking the silence occasionally with cryptic comments; at the bottom of the hill, on the A696, cars keep passing, we hear the distant noise; clouds come, hover for varying lengths of time, or pass quickly, to make room for more clouds, shedding or not shedding some rain on their way; (one morning the sky was blue, for a little while); the temperatures seem adequate for the time of the year (true!); the moon has been waxing until it was full, now it is waning again…
No news is good news in a Silent Week!
