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The late fall colors may be more muted in tone right now, but the stark intensity of exposed branches takes my breath away. You gotta love a season that produces such a splendid array of  gnarly [...]

I love the simplicity of venturing out every week to the local CSA farm where we get our produce. Tromping through the fields to gather fresh flowers, pick raspberries (which never make it past [...]

BE peace to have peace. There’s no other way. Monday, September 21 is World Peace Day. Enjoy this beauty of a video brought to us by www.heartmath.com. [To view, click the center of the [...]

It seems that many good books these days are made into a movie. At four minutes long maybe my movie isn’t Hollywood or Sundance material, but it does have a soundtrack and it is designed to [...]

“Simplify, simplify…” –Henry David Thoreau Last night I watched the second segment of Brian Williams’ “Inside the Obama White House,” which aired on NBC last [...]

Part 3 of 7 * It’s our second skin. Homes and workplaces are extensions of us. Through doorways and hallways, they circulate energy (chi)–or don’t, depending on how cluttered, congested, and [...]

Dear Christmas Tree, I cried when Jay drove you away to the landfill today. I’m still weepy. I miss you. There’s a big hole in the living room where you once stood. I’m [...]

Most of us do too much, or have more possessions than we need or use. Or both. With our lives swept up in an overwhelming swirl of attachments, worry, and endless, mechanical “doing,” [...]