Popping in to say hi. Hi! What I've been doing: So many elderberries What James has been doing: Elderberry-rhubarb jam, or elderbarb as we call it, our own invention. And yesterday James and I had a Day of Mindfulness at a local Vietnamese Buddhist Temple that practices in the Plum Village tradition as taught by …
Category: Spirituality
Abundant
Hello Friends! These past two weeks have seen me spending all of my free time picking raspberries or working on a dharma talk for my sangha this last Thursday. Now I am busy in the garden and catching up with all the things I let slide. A heat dome arrived today and we are under …
Resurfacing
Hello Friends! I did not intend to take time away, but life has been full and I am still searching to strike some sort of balance with all the things. In the meantime, I've been prioritizing personal journal writing over blog writing. I've consistently kept a journal since I was 10-years-old. It has become the …
Winter Solstice 2025
Oh Friends, it has been a busy couple of weeks, but now I am happily on vacation for the next two weeks. Aaaaahhhhhh. The busy was from many things. At work it was wrapping up the semester and trying to make sure the professors I support had all the research materials they needed while the …
Hello Again
Here I went and had another unintentional blog-cation. We’ve been having second summer for weeks with temperatures as much as 20 degrees F above normal, whatever normal means these days. Yesterday, Saturday, was a record high of 91F/ 33C. I am grateful that today is cooler and we are getting a cold front—finally—that will tip …
