Sometimes it’s hard to articulate the changes that are happening inside you and around you… they are flowing so subtly and incessantly, and emerge cumulatively and progressively.

Today, I feel like everything is all swirling around in spirals. My perception…

Things I've been musing over…

• Plants have intelligence - see work by Dr. Monica Gagliano
• Trees take care of their offspring - see research by Dr. Suzanne Simard
• Water responds to thought, language and intention - see work by Dr.…

This is typically a time of joy and celebration, but not necessarily for everyone. Is it me, or does this year in particular seem weighted with sorrow near and far? Walking in the woods is the main thing keeping me…

Over the last week, we have gotten 2 back-to-back snowstorms of 8” each, plus it’s currently dumping another 6+ inches outside. I fortunately love snow, and I have a dog that loves snow, and I have friends that have dogs…

Finally!!!

As the mornings get ever darker in the Fall, I personally cannot wait to get back to real time… Standard Time… time derived from the rising and setting of the sun. Time that correlates to the evolution, over millennia…

As a citizen of the planet, I celebrate all holidays. Hence, we are taking an integration week break for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and the start of the High Holy-days (holi-days!)

My DNA test says I have Ashkinazi…

Spent a week visiting old friends in Maine and Massachusetts last week. Here are some pics.

It was a real vacation... restful and lazy and lovely to be with my peeps... meaning the kind of friends you can talk about…

Daisy and I go for a walk in the woods every morning and today we visited Carla. It's coming up on 2 years since she passed, and I visit her grave pretty regularly. Today, I was sitting and looking around…

Just being outside has been my respite lately. I find myself talking (and listening) to trees and birds and insects... anything alive actually. And also water and clouds and the sky and stars too. Somehow, it's been keeping things in…

What do you see in this picture?

If you said weeds, you're right. And if you said food, you are also right! I am taking a class at the local Cooperative Extension office on foraging that is changing my relationship…

“What if water wasn’t just a chemical substance, but alive, a being with agency in its own right? Surely an absurd proposition from the perspective of materialism, which believes only those with big brains can feel and think – but…

Winter sunrises are magical.

First of all, they happen late enough that I have time to get out to see them happen.

Second, the gradual growing and emergence of light builds it's own sense of suspense, turning to awe once…