Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows. — Henry David Thoreau What I love to do is grow and nurture — see living things go through all those mysterious stages of development. It’s where I feel most alive and close to something big and mysterious. When people ask me…
Before I continue on and on and on with my photos of New York, I have to tell you about my “To Do” list. Exciting, right? Spring certainly does create lengthy “To Do” lists, especially if you are expanding your gardens and have a lot of house and yard maintenance to do. I wanted to…
Sunday afternoon, I went to a two hour class on keeping chickens. The class was put on by Bob Lies, who, along with his wife, has kept chickens in his St. Paul backyard for four years. The class was held at Egg Plant Urban Farm Supply, a wonderful source of everything garden and chicken, located…
Just walking Luke on a lead line last Saturday started him coughing, and I decided I couldn’t handle the “wait and see” for another week. So my kind and generous friend Cheryle hauled Luke and I to the vet office today. Luke did not appreciate having a tube stuck through his nose and into his…
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and…
Do you believe in magic? Or that you should pay attention to fortunes in cookies? Do you believe you can do it? Whatever “it” is? Do you believe that a heart That’s been broken Can be whole again? I do Most fortunes that I receive in cookies are pretty darn lame and meaningless, but…
