Colleen had made a comment on one of my posts about how "the Native American only concerned themselves with the medicine wheel of abou...

The world has become very quiet the last two days. I could barely hear the sound of muffled rain and bird song was distant and cold and c...

While I realize it is bad Karma and so anti-Zen and certainly not Feng Shui and definitely expensive to put up this deer fence, my greate...

I was doing some spring cleaning, dusting shelves, and pulled one of the ancient photo albums aside and decided to look for this photo. A p...

There are many breathtaking visits that happen with blogging. Experiences and thoughts and ideas and photos that would or could not exist ...

Art requires angst doesn't it?. How many artists are also crazy and need that craziness to feed their art? This table missing the ...

Yes, I should have posted this little story yesterday, but being retired I didn't. My husband is part Irish (also some Scot and En...

As I have reached elderhood I find the time to absorb and think about the things that happen in my life can be a bit exhausting and less e...

"Do not let yourself be bothered with the inconsequential. One only has so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the pe...

I do not feel like blogging today, but I suggest that you go here for some enlightenment about our world. (Photo was taken in California b...

Sorry, but this is not about what someone reading the title might be thinking. It is about changes in the American diet. (Well, guess tha...

Sweetmango wrote a post about how we must learn to live with nature and not try to transform or fight its natural flow. This is true and g...

I think one of the biggest surprises I have discovered in blogging is how one can grow to love and admire another blogger. Some become lik...

Is there ever, ever, ever a day when they dress you and it is not so, so, absolutely wrong?

I do not like doing movie reviews. There are enough critics out there and I disagree with most of them, and besides, everyone has differe...

I have always had a love affair with words. Beginning as an early reader at 3, I took my favorite books everywhere with me in place of a se...

Some people cut a little brush and others cut a lot of deadfall. The tree trimmers came today. We did NOT cut any live trees, only the dea...

I awoke at 6:00 from the demands of our Cardinal, Don Quixote, tapping at the window at the bedroom patio door reminding me I can never sl...

'Seth' is a very dignified elder with a carefully groomed handle-bar mustache and a very gentle and gentlemanly demeanor. He did t...

A colleague asked me to join facebook several weeks ago and as a result I have learned a few things: I find it a real time sink, because pa...