monday...

ok.

at our meal last week we decided to try to use the blog here a bit more - to help us to become more disciplined and to be more accountable. monks in a monastery have that daily support of their community, the discipline of a shared routine, they're all in it together for the long haul... we talked about how that might make it easier [or at least simpler] to take on this monastic thing - just to be set apart and to have the pursuit of monastic silence, stillness, prayer, contemplation as your main goal, with very few distractions. meanwhile we're struggling with all these added extras - mainly work and family i guess... but also the values[noisy, busy, individualistic, consumerist...] of the communities and the world that we live in, which maybe run counter to the way that we'd ideally like it to be...

[...of course, that's not to say that life in a monastery is easy - there's no place to hide, no easy excuses or cosy diversions for the monks there...!]

so - the plan is for us to blog daily through the week [taking saturday and sunday off!]in order to build a bit more rigour and continuity into our group. [this i think will be especially important as folk disappear off to far-flung parts of the world to do cool stuff...!]

and so here we go...
looking forward to hearing from you all!

si