by John C. Parkin | Jul 28, 2023 | Uncategorised
We’ve just returned from Falmouth in Cornwall, not from a holiday, but to see one of our sons, Arco, graduate. Another moving milestone in a month of moving milestones.This month, I’ve cried at the following – Our 25th wedding anniversary My Mum...
by John C. Parkin | Feb 11, 2022 | Uncategorised
Back in 2002, wandering around Italy in a camper van,our one year old twin boys in the back, we were, in a rather leisurely way, looking for a bit of paradise, to park our van, to renovate a farmhouse, to welcome people to our retreat centre. When we were told there...
by John C. Parkin | Jan 24, 2022 | Uncategorised
If you haven’t met before, we’d like to introduce you to the volcano. This is where we’re doing our 2023 retreats. Stromboli. Not ‘Vulcano’, a nearby volcanic island (with a dormant volcano) from where we get the word...
by John C. Parkin | Nov 25, 2021 | Uncategorised
It’s Thanksgiving Day today.I only usually realise on the day.As it tends not to register here in Europe. We have instead taken on the whole Black Friday thing with relish these last few years. Which seems a pity.We’ve ignored a festival devoted to giving...
by John C. Parkin | May 25, 2021 | Uncategorised
“It was great to see this… to see what is the true giggly and excited me beneath it all…” I (John) am a very happy guinea pig. You see Gaia uses me as a guinea pig to refine and develop her many therapeutic ideas and processes. Yesterday Gaia...
by John C. Parkin | May 25, 2021 | Uncategorised
Don’t create situations where you know things are likely to go wrong…watch out for that. Yesterday, as I was following Gaia up the stairs to her study, she said -“Careful! Watch the banana skin there!”. And, sure enough, there at the edge of...
