WITH THE EXHIBITION OVER IN THE LATE SUMMER OF 2007 I CONSIDERED MY OPTIONS...THEY WERE NOT MANY!
I OWNED THIS BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF LAND THAT I THOUGHT WAS MY DESTINY...I WAS AN IDEAL CUSTODIAN BUT IT WAS BECOMING A LIABILITY...I DID NOT PANIC JUST LIVED FROM DAY TODAY BUT I SURVIVED AND IN THE AUTUMN A FELLOW GEOMETRIST (AND FOLLOWER OF RUDOLF STEINER) MADE ME AN OFFER FOR THE LAND WHICH I RELUCTANLY ACCEPTED...I SOLD THE LAND. MAYBE IT WAS MY DESTINY TO JUST OWN THE LAND FOR 6 YRS THEN MOVE ON AND DO "THE GOOD WORK" ELSE WHERE.
SINCE THE SALE OF "THE PLOT" BRITAIN HAS ALMOST DOUBLED ITS NATIONAL DEBT...BOTH BRITAIN & AMERICA HAD TO BAIL OUT BANKS, INSURANCE COMPANIES, CAR COMPANIES AND DIRECTORS OF ENRON ARE IN JAIL AND MADOFF "MADE OFF" WITH IN EXCESS OF 20 BILLION" AND WILL NOW SPEND THE REST OF HIS LIFE IN PRISON...WE HAVE THE SCANDAL OF M.P.'S EXPENSES, AND ALL THE OTHER EXCESSES AD NAUSEUM. IT WOULD APPEAR THAT FOR MANY YEARS OUR COUNTRIES HAVE BEEN RUN BY CRIMINALS...THERE HAS TO BE A CULTURAL SHIFT WHERE THE GOD IS NOT MONEY...WHERE HONEST PEOPLE GET A BREAK AND BRING AN END TO THIS ENDEMIC GREED AND CORRUPTION THAT ALMOST DESTROYED THE CREDIBILITY OF THE RICHEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!
SO I SOLD THE LAND PAID OFF A FEW DEBTS...THE MANDALA SHED WAS DISMANTLED & RE-ERECTED IN A FRIENDS VERY SMALL GARDEN IN PENZANCE...IT HAS BEEN TRANSMUTED BACK INTO AN ORDINARY SHED FULL OF TOOLS , BICYCLES AND ALL THE USUAL STUFF YOU EXPECT TO SEE IN A SHED...PLUS A FEW "HAIKUS" INSCRIBED ON ITS WALLS...I HAVE NEVER WRITTEN A BOOK OF POEMS BUT HAVE WRITTEN "A SHED OF HAIKUS"...
PS: IT'S NEVER THE END...IT'S ALL JUST A PART OF A "CONTINUUM".