Resolve to be always beginning—to be a beginner.Rainer Maria Rilke Happy New Year! Looking back at my 2021 evolutions, I’m pretty pleased with how it all went. My 2021 evolutions came about in January last year when I decided that Evolutions were better than Resolutions because resolutions imply product, imply ending, and evolutions are an …
Winter
The days may be getting incrementally longer, but we are headed into deep winter now. I always find the clear, brilliant blue skies of January a sort of consolation for the cold that reaches fingers deep into my lungs and bones. I’ve been on vacation for a week now and have one more week left. …
Winter Solstice
Arugula Meadow under snow Happy Solstice! I did not intend to take a break from posting. Life has been happening. I will talk more about that in another post. Because this is Winter Solstice, the one day a year I actually cook an entire meal! I asked James several weeks ago if there was a …
Interdependence
Well it finally happened, the Dashwoods and the Nuggets have become a flock. Just as there was no big fuss when we introduced the Nuggets to the Dashwoods, only a refusal to associate with each other, the merging was without fuss too. One day they were foraging on separate sides of the garden, then on …
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
Today is World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. It breaks my heart that there even is such a day, but that is what cars have done to this world. While car crashes are a leading cause of death in the United States among people aged 1-54, it is not just a U.S. problem. …
Continue reading World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
