https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuacPZPgsSU "It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind. The realm of your own." ~Marcus Aurelius…
Genius Home
It seems an age ago that were in Maine. Coastal time, cool, crystalline lakes, like a dream. We are now back in our own home, land locked here in our…
Prickly territory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrMPCvQeH3A This evening I was walking the lone, remaining dog up the drive. She doesn't care for a long walk really, being fully deaf and mostly blind, but she does…
Joy of being
"In today's rush, we all think too much... seek too much... want too much... and forget about the joy of just being." ~Eckhart Tolle * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAO9vgNTLZk I don't know about…
Attending
"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work." ~Mary Oliver It's funny to me, my own internal cycles of inward-facing versus outward-facing; of intense productivity versus steeping an…
These Gifts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_h7JvDSBqU There are quiet gifts arriving daily here at our lowly little acre. A baby oak seedling I have been stewarding in the last year or so made it through…
Allies
It's the time of year when everything feels a bit frenetic. The garden is growing by leaps and bounds. I'm finding it hard to decide where to place my efforts…
Bells of Springtime
It seems many things in our little acre of land are bell shaped just now, fairly ringing with the bodacious arrival of a proper spring time. Daytime warmth coaxes and…
Where your name is spoken
What a winter we are weathering. Not for the normal reasons which might lead to a bout of winter weariness such as darkness or the ice and snow (we've had…
In the Garden 7/1/2012
Ok, so it's not Tuesday, my slated day for the ITG blog posts I'm trying to keep up with here, but it is a day when I have a few…