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“The importance is that by living more fully in the present, we are more able to feel our connection with God, with Life and with our own deepest purpose for existing.”

It is so easy to get caught up in time., isn't it? We take time for granted, and we often do so with our life too, not questioning it anymore. Another day passes, another month and another year…

From time to time I am reminded of its temporality. It deeply shocks me when I loose or almost loose  a friend, family or a beloved one. It touches me when a large group of people unexpectedly die of natural disasters. It is easy to forget cause and effect, the consequences of our behaviour to each other and to the planet. Both the negative and the positive.

We celebrate a new birth, a new baby being born. Several times I have had the privilege of seeing a woman friend giving birth and it changed my whole life perspective! Ihope for you that you once can have the experience of being present at a birth. For me it was an absolute miracle. Totally overwhelmed I was, with the beauty, the wonder, of a human being – Look, listen: it cries, it moves, it has on its body everything to live like me; just so small,so cute. It made me laugh and feel so happy to be human. Grateful.

Going outside afterwards, it surprised me the world just moved on. I wanted to shout from joy from the roofs, as I did in a café to friends. I wanted everyone to stop a moment to celebrate life, sing and dance to it. It is wonderful! He, Wake up people, your life is a miracle!.

My own birthday and theirs are good reminders to ‘be awake’.

A calendar is to mark the profane, daily appointments, which seem to have no other importance than to  remind us. To be at the doctor, the dentist, the school party of our eldest child or to meet that exiting new friend in our life. Sometimes they get their importance afterwards.

A calendar is also to mark the birthdays and special moments in our life. To remind ourselves of the people. To just lift us above our daily life and connect again with the specialness of our Life. 

FindhornCalendar 2012 :

Wall calendar with one month per page, lined space to write, illustrated with bright nature images. Each month has a photo-theme, like spring work in the garden, animals, the river, flowers or the dunes. All images are made in the Findhorn area. If you know Findhorn you might recognize some of the beautiful places, if not it can be a same nice visual experience of nature.

Size 10.5cm wide x 30.5 cm high, full colour, printed in Findhorn onsustainable environmental friendly quality paper. Price £ 9.99. Avaialbe in the online shop at this site.

Have an adventurous as well as relaxed, wonderful 2012. It will be a special year! Enjoy your life, with kind greetings, Adriana. (Sept 2011)

Where is your favourite river? Is it a river streaming through town like a magnetic vein along which everything seems to happen?  Or is it a river flowing free in the landscape? Coming from the mountains seeking its way through the soil towards the lowest point, a lake or a sea; where it seems to come home..... 

Most of us know a river where we can comehome to. The river taking us home to ourselves.  Let us acknowledge the rivers as sources of life.

For me, working in the renowned eco-spiritual community of Findhorn in the north of Scotland as well as living in the older part of Findhorn, the former fishing village, my river must be ‘the RiverFindhorn’. Its source is high in the wild Scottish Highlands - nobody seems toknow exactly where- but it takes its time to come down.  It crosses the hills and woods to end near the flat meadows of Findhorn Bay into the Moray Firth. I live at the edgeof both, Bay and sea, and getting to know the place, my attachment to living at the waterside has grown into love, appreciation and amazement for this river.

To honour all rivers on our planet I selected a series of river imagesfrom my photo archive. Adding poetic texts I made them into the series of ‘The River’greeting cards. Each of them has its own individual atmosphere as single card,and together they make a collection of cards in a luxe box-set. Printed inFindhorn on 100% recycled card, using vegetable based inks.  With white envelope.

Available from the online shop in the ‘River’ series:

- luxe BOX-set ‘The River” containing 5 cards

- or individual River cards (R01, R02, R03, R04) double folded A5 greeting cards with poetry on back and with one line from the poem on front:

R01                  closeup  “The river longing for the sea”

R02                  flowing “I am river”

R03                  Autumn colours “The river mirroring my colourful being”

R04                  calm:  “The river taking me home”

See photos from each in the e-shop on this site . Enjoy them! Adriana, 2011

I dance for the plants

I dance for the plants

for their sacred geometric forms

their heart shaped petals

their star-form patterns

their spirals, their cycles and their cells.

I dance for the plants

in the Universal Hall

and I see that we are all seeds scattering

infused with sacred patterning

within this holy place

We are flowers emerging from this cosmic seed case

I dance for the plants

wild gypsy dances dervishing and spiralling

my steps are Celtic, Middle Eastern, Indian and African

for they are all the same

invoking the growth of plants with every step

I dance for the plants

and see I do not dance alone

we are all plants dancing

and this garden is our home

This poem comes from the book and the greeting card series “Gifts from theFindhorn Gardens”  

Flowers, trees, soil, wind and water – this captivating book  “Gifts from the Findhorn Gardens” presents you with an evocative journey through the Celtic seasons in the amazing gardens of Findhorn. Enchanting poems and photographs depict the beauty of creation, developing within the rhythms of nature throughout the course of the year. Dive into Imbolc with its snowdrops and tender beginnings of spring, move through passionate Beltane, - fire dance and the blossoming flora- , revel in the abundance of Lamas, harvesting the fruits of your labour, and emerge again in the wintry Samhain, to go within and rejuvenate alongside nature, completing the Celtic cycle of the year.  

Inspiration and backdrop for this book are the beautiful working gardens of the Findhorn Foundation in the very north of Scotland, a place of transformation and healing on many levels, experienced by hundreds of visitors every year. The book and the cards are a wonderful gift to yourself and others. Poetry by Scottish poet and storyteller Margot Henderson, with photos by Adriana Sjan Bijman

 “Gifts from theFindhorn Gardens” - 80 pages full colour paperback.

Available here in our online shop: The book for only £ 5.99, the cards each £2.25 or in luxe box set for £ 9.99

Greeting cards  15x15(30)cm with white envelop on environmental friendly paper, printed in Findhorn.

With greetings, Adriana