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Only for a few short minutes the entire valley was alight with evening sun as it broke beneath the clouds and saturated the hills.

MelaRosa Retreat is not simply a venue, it is a values based community that is built on core beliefs.

THE VALUE OF A RETURN TO INTIMACY.

The basis of my teaching here and what I offer to those who spend time here is the basis of what I wish to bui

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The weather has turned , it is much cooler and damper and the beautiful softening has returned to the valley below. It feels like a great relief after the bleaching summer.
This is the time of year when I begin to turn my thoughts to next year and t

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Flowers for the house’s 800 years birthday party tonight! All from the garden- pink sunflowers, marbled beans, apples, cherry tomatoes, zinnias, purple flowering basil, purple peas etc. Mostly seed from @sarahravenperchhill @sarahravensgarden

I’ve been visiting the neighbors! Where I am standing to take the picture is the beautiful Medecian villa retreat accommodation and at the end of that magnificent cypress avenue, the @melarosaretreat olive grove begins. Isn’t it lovely?

There is a palpable shift in the light. End of summer and a sense of evening. This summer has been hard and it’s so lovely to let some things go and exhale into endings and easings and with that, open up to beginnings.

I got myself into a spiritual panic very early this morning about Gaza and A.I. and the factory farming of animals and all those things that upset me, but as I watched the day begin, this happened. And last night a hedgehog came to call under the so

🧹🪣 21.30h, 4.5 hours, 2 spider bites, endless barbed wire cuts and the horrors of endless rats nests and waste and I’ve finally finish clearing and cleaning the outhouse/ chicken house that will be the potting shed for the farm and garden. Th

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After floods and cold and then heat and hail there is so much joy and love for a little brace of hard green tomatoes nubbing their way into life.

It was every last moment of fire and bruise across the sky this evening. These things usually don’t last very long but this extraordinary light is lingering and it feels like a portend of glories to come 🧡

I spent the day in the orto as the irrigation system goes in over the next few weeks. It’s been a fairly brutal few weeks as temperatures nudged 40C and my little heritage variety saplings showed signs of stress. The cherries in particular stru

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