Hail pounded my metal roof a couple of days ago, making an awful racket. The hail was the size of beans, although it looked like mothballs b...

A few years ago, I bought a cup on Lopez Island in the San Juan Islands in Washington state. This is my favorite cup, though its colors are ...

This week, the plant i'm in love with is Black Lace Elderberry with its creamy pink flowers. A few years ago, i gave up gardening on o...

For the past month, i've been talking about and shopping around for a Japanese maple for my moss garden. I finally bought a threadleaf  ...

Two of my grandmother's everyday-china bowls broke last night. For the first many years after she died, i kept these bowls as heirloom...

The retreat center has a large organic garden, thanks to the housekeeper Dawn, who is making sure that retreatants have probiotic kim chi ...

Last evening, our group of meditation teachers talked about what we were doing, if anything, regarding fear in our various communities. Acti...