Wattle Hollow Schedule FALL 2025
Welcome dear yogis! Following is the upcoming Fall listing of events: ** WITH THE SIMULTANEOUS AND FULL EMBRACE OF “ANNICCA”, THE BUDDHIST DOCTRINE ACKNOWLEDGING THE ETERNALLY SHIFTING AND UNFORESEEABLE FACTORS OF LIFE ON EARTH. Registration is required. You may register anytime, friends…though my response may be somewhat delayed… Friends, I suggest that you don’t wait too long to register for any of these offerings…They seem to fill up faster every year! And for those that have asked about digital donations, see new page Dana...
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Dharma Days are a one-day opportunity, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., to take a personal tour in the Theravadan Vipassana meditation traditional practices of sitting, walking, eating and loving-kindness/metta. It’s a great chance for beginning meditators to get their feet wet, and for oldies to refresh their practice. We also do a mild 50-minute stretching/yoga/or creative movement session. An organic vegetarian lunch will be served. No charge for this day, though dana/donations are accepted. See Registration link below to register. We will have chairs...
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Sunday, November 9 (10 a.m. – 4 p.m.) Dharma Days are an opportunity to take a personal tour of the Theravadan Vipassana meditation (traditionally practiced in SE Asia and in the West) practices of sitting, walking, eating and loving-kindness/metta. It’s a great chance for beginning meditators to get their feet wet, and for oldies to refresh their practice. We also do a mild 50-minute stretching/yoga/or creative movement session. An organic vegetarian lunch will be served. No charge for this day, though dana/ donations are accepted....
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Greetings from Battambong, Cambodia, dears. My balcony looks down on Klong 2.0, here in the marketplace. Life happens three stories down below. It’s relatively quiet and breezy up here. And why are the monks carrying umbrellas, you may wonder? Temperatures are often in the high 90’s, approaching 100 degrees. My shoulders, knees and midriff remain covered, however, like the local Khmer women, when I’m out in public. In my sixty years of travel in the Third World, I’ve never wanted to offend the culture I’m in. I’m not quite ready, however, for...
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Read about Food, Farms, Lessons from the River…and getting both Joy AND her computer across the border to Cambodia…. View/Download Tales # 10 pdf Click Here
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Read about Pa Joy’s MONTH-LONG MAECHEE CHALLENGE, update on Nawg Joy, TWO Confessions from Joy, and a look at her 6 foot neighbor…. View/Download Newsletter # 9 Click Here
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This newsletter from Joy comes after several days at the south campus of SDS, a three-hour drive from Bangkok. To Read/Download the full newsletter #8 (pdf) Click Here hanging out with my tribe of Karin teenagers, the fifteen local village kids who chose to come live here several years ago When I indicated that I wanted to help plant the cosmos, for example, they quickly: *dug the holes *piled up dirt all around the holes *placed the plants in each hole Then invited me to push the dirt over the plants…. Our classes are festivals of happiness...
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In this newsletter #7, read about Joy’s thoughts on Annica & Annatta, Kidde Cafe, Sports Day, and Green Tara … Click to open/download pdf
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Hello, dear readers. The Sweet Dream,Fahn Deecontinues… Last night, Nawng Joy said that she had checked every item off on her fantasy list. Some of them might surprise you: **We four women (Nawng Joy, Aey, Ur and I) have been singing.. A LOT!Mostly sweet oldies like : How could anyone ever tell youYou were anything less than beautiful?How could anyone ever tell youYou were less than whole?How could anyone fail to noticeThat your loving is a miracle?How deeply you’re connected to my soul. One night, Nawng Joy requested that we all hold hands...
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Hello again, dear readers. Many of you are experiencing sub-zero temperatures up north, with blizzards. I wonder whether it is a form of cruelty to send these photos to your side of the world… although some of you are delighted with the snow, the quiet, the mysterious frost etchings on your window panes. I spent many wonderful winters in Montana and Wisconsin. I remember the gifts of splitting wood, stoking the stove, snow-shoeing in the woods at dusk, rainbow patterns in the sunny drifts… It was a little harder to unwrap the...
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Hello again dear readers… or, more properly around here: Dhamma sawadhi kha 🙏 .(Greetings, in the spirit of Dhamma) My braincells are starting to seep back in ….and it’s such a relief! Someone please remind me if/when you hear me denigrating the mind…which is fairly fashionable in Buddhist circles. I slept well, and awoke to the sound of the nuns chanting next door, as they do every morning around 5:15. Such a charming wakeup bell! I did not join them, however, since I do suffer from CFS** But I did arise (well, by 6 a.m., anyhow) and...
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Hola, dear readers. No, this is not a Mexican kitty..This is Tater Bug, seen here contemplating the sunset. She lives in Little Rock with my friend Becky. I’ve been thinking about aliens lately, and what that means…For instance, when I go down to the bay every morning before dawn, wearing my down jacket, a cap, leg warmers, an alpaca poncho and three layers of clothes beneath all that…. and I encounter these people: Which of us is the alien?(Clue: I heard them speaking French.) And I see that they have more freedom/options than I, because...
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Wattle Hollow is a relatively small retreat center (40 acres of woodlands on a mountainside in Northwest Arkansas) with capacity for 20 - 25 folks.