July 18, 2021 photo by Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP I write this because I love you and I want Earth and all living parts of nature to continue and to thrive in love and joy. On Sunday nights, I think about the week ahead and look for words or ideas that will help me move into the week with good energy, hope, and joy - and sometimes I share these thoughts with you. Tonight I do wish that good energy and joy for all of us, and I also feel compelled to make some commen

September 8, 2020 I remember children running through sprinklers Bodies slick and sun-kiss'd brown Laughing slipping sliding on wet grass. Let it last forever. Bodies slick and sun-kiss'd brown Innocents soaking up joy. Let it last forever. No worries cares or darkness. Innocents soaking up joy Happiness is yours, need not be earned. No worries cares or darkness. You are more precious than you know. Happiness is yours, need not be earned. When do you start to doubt this?

May 1, 2020 The last time I was in Kentucky, I tried to teach my mom, almost 92 years old, how to dictate a text. We had not given my sister in Alabama, the recipient of said texts, any heads up about what was coming. She was rightly confused and a tad concerned about what was filling up her text box. On our end of things, my mother and I were laughing so hard at what was showing up on her phone that we fell off the sofa. Literally. We were on the floor. . Oh how I miss an

April 2, 2020 In September 2019, Larry and I took a trip to Port Renfrew, a very small town on Vancouver Island, BC. It was our second visit to this tiny site, our second stay in a yurt at Soule Creek Lodge. It is one of my favorite places in the world. On our last day, we sought out Avatar Grove, an old growth forest that is within the traditional territory of the Pacheedaht First Nation and is home to a tree known as "Canada's Gnarliest Tree." Not sure of the age of this