Susan, This is a great idea, to introduce ourselves…To start, my name is Valerie. I now live on the Pacific Northwest coast in California. For those of you who don’t know, all of California is NOT sun, beaches with Palm trees and tans. it is cold, rocky sometimes sunny with Redwoods and no tans. I…
Susan! I’m forwarding you a photo taken by daughter Devyn of our two “little girls” … Lovely little pet rats/pocket pets named Belle and Molly (Belle is the black one).Devyn is planning to draw a “yin-yang” illustration of them for her art class. We are “pocket pet” people here. :-} I’m guessing there must be…
This week, one of our kindred spirits asked if we could have a place here for people to share photos of their animals. I thought, “Sweet! How about sharing that and more!?” So, I am inviting—beseeching—you to introduce yourself to this community! Please go to my contact page if you don’t already have my email…
“…we often misunderstand what quiet means. It doesn’t mean the absence of sound. Some sounds foster silence, like the Gregorian chant that I sang and directed when I lived in a religious order. Some sounds in nature add to the quiet rather than take away from it….My dog doesn’t talk, so we are dedicated to…
I am a Paul Shepard fan. He makes me think…and think and think and think. I’ve condensed the following “letter” from his book, The Others: How Animals Made Us Human. This was the first of his works I read, and certainly not the last: “…We nurtured humans from a time before they were in the…
If, like me, you feel that something big is going on inside and outside of you, you may enjoy this message sent to me by a good (and also up-ended) friend, Paul: “Greetings! Sleeping, exhaustion, fatigue, a ‘dead battery’ and lethargy are some of the indications that one is integrating. If you end up plopping…
Happy New Year from my winter place to yours! I write this on a very cold late afternoon under grey, pondering skies. Outside, the juncos are making prints in the new snow on my deck. I seemed to have evoked the spirit of Change by sending out that last Musing, and she is delighted to…