In the last two weeks I took about ten days off of gardening. The result was a garden full of 3-5 inch weeds so thick I can barely make out the plants. We are not really meticulous gardeners, or meticulous anything to be quite honest. So this forest of weeds is not unfamiliar. But the …
Eat Local And Eat In Abundance: Get a CSA or go to your local farmer’s market and see what is new every week. Get excited for something later in the summer and then enjoy it when it finally arrives. When something finally is harvested eat it until you are blue in the face while everything is …
If you didn’t see the mysterious spring full moon last night you missed out. It was golden and looming on the horizon in the early evening yesterday. There are some full and new moons that seem to come and go without my noticing much. Other months it feels like everything in me is building and …
This morning I woke up on this beautiful Sunday morning with a thousand things to do and a scattered, crazed mind. So much for my restful weekend to help revive me from my travels last weekend. I’ve been so busy wanting to write this third bird post and get my spring newsletter out that I …
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About six years ago I decided that surrender was my number one lesson to learn. Growing up I had been a fighter. Always pushing, fighting, struggling to get what I wanted and needed. After I fell in love a few times and made some significant friendships I realized that the best things in life usually …
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In the midst of this rainy New England weekend I unfortunately had to fly off to the Gulf Coast of Florida. We were there for a family wedding and the excess of sun has revived me. But not only that, my practice and interest in teaching has been invigorated. As a dancer, yogini and mover, …
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Growing up April 1st was all about April Fool’s Day. My mother succeeded almost every year in tricking my father with some devilish plot. It was their little ritual and even on the years she attempted and failed miserably it was fun to watch the process. Seven years ago, no I guess now it is eight, …
I’m certainly not a green thumb, but I am a plant person. In our very sunny apartment my houseplants are the happiest they have ever been. I have a continuously blooming African violet that astonishes me after years of being flowerless. I have a rapidly spindling ivy that is the first I’ve kept alive since …
This morning while I was writing I heard the familiar sound of geese honking and turned to look out the south-facing window to see hundreds of Canadian geese in route northward. Even on this frosty, but sunny March morning there is something so heart-warming about seeing the certainty of nature repeating itself. The geese have …
There are certain moments in every committed relationship were one partner does something completely for the other partner even though every ounce of their being wishes they didn’t have to. In my loving, wonderfully committed relationship I am required on occasion to go downhill skiing. Now there are lots of things I don’t do for …