In this time of reflection, as the nights come sooner, the fires become cozier, and the new year approaches, I cannot help but reflect on the spirit of the season. Why has this time become so sacred? In a purely secular context, I can see how celebrations of light and hope have developed during the … Continue reading
Funny thing, mountain watching. We do it like it’s never been done before- all the flocking, tent-piching, hiking, and picture-taking. The mountain, well, it sits and watches back, sometimes even chuckling at the absurdity and foolishness of all this activity.As it has been for the past 10,000 years or more. For the mountain, it knows. … Continue reading
The color of the sun is everywhere, making its slow descent. Yellow, gold, orange, pink, glowing light- every shade of the passing day. The light transforms everything into beauty- the spaces in between the leaves on the trees, the shaft of light stretching along the kitchen floor, a glow illuminating the bowl of yesterday’s tomatoes. And your eyes, … Continue reading
Marilyn once told me, “the best preparation for that moment is the one directly before it.” I sit and try to contemplate the future but all I know is the present and the past. None of us can know the future in its crystal clarity as when it becomes the present but for some reason … Continue reading
Simplicity is beautiful and often it is holy. I think that from the first hour we came to our little haven on the top of the world, we have been forced to be simple- from the food we eat (gnocchi, sauce, and rosemary from the madame’s heaping plant) to the time we wake up, to … Continue reading
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