Getting ready to start another workshop in Slovakia this evening looking at a weather forecast that has rain predicted for each day of the week. Looks somewhat sunny today after rain all day yesterday, but it is very, very windy. We’ll see if the box of “Happy Day” Slovakian juice that I’m drinking lives up to its name. It’s got every fruit imaginable on the front of the package with a claim of 100% multivitamin. Anyhow, before getting too involved […]

Our location for the Denmark workshop was about one hour north of the town Arhus, Denmark in the small village of Feldballe.   Thatched roof house in Feldballe. The workshop itself was held at “Friland”, a community that the residents describe as “world famous in Denmark.” In short terms, Friland is an alternative community founded by a man named Steen Moeller.  The word “Friland” could be quickly translated as “Free Land.” I tried to tell him that he had his […]

We’ve been in Denmark for about a week now, in the small village called Feldballe, near the town of Arhus.  Took that week to rest up from Estonia and to get a sense of what we’re doing in the workshop here.  We’re several days into the Denmark workshop, so far so good.  It’s a little on the cool side with temps in the mid to high 50s (F) with periodic rain.  Once in a while it warms up. Breakfast is […]

Part 2 – Estonia Workshop and Weekend Conference Our Estonia stay began with a two day conference at the Esna Manor where a variety of people gave presentations and slideshows of their work in the Baltic States, mainly Estonia, but Latvia and Lithuania as well.  We’ve managed to avoid anything like this over the years where we had to sit through programs with talks all day, but in this case there was little choice as it rained for two days […]

Before we left for Europe we attempted a small amount of research via the internet on the countries we would visit just to get a little better idea of where we would be going.  When searching Estonia, the web provided only a small amount of information and consequently I don’t think we had high expectations for that tiny country that for so long was part of the old Soviet Union.  The short version of this story is that our perceptions […]