Our BeeHaven garden is on a steep hillside. While I was once a goat in my younger days, easily navigating rough and rocky terrain, my goat legs have abandoned me in my senior years. Thus, it was no surprise that sometime earlier this summer, I tweaked my knee. It was not a horrid tweak, just…
NOTE: For some reason, FB will not allow me onto its site anymore. This may be a glitch of some kind or it might be a message from the Universe, but I’ve decided this: I’ll do my best to get back onto FB, mostly so I can tell everyone I’ll be leaving. I’m setting up…
Sheesh, it took me a long time to get back to this! So, twenty-plus backyard swarms, tomato harvests, bird rescues, bee rescues, and many months of watering later, I am here to continue my reflection on finding balance in an insane world. As I write this, the Ford-Kavanaugh debacle is in full swing. And it…
It wasn’t supposed to happen quite like this. That is, I didn’t expect summer to streak by like a comet. Last I remember I was in an all-out effort to keep Wiley, the wild turkey, alive and on earth at least one more day. I’m sorry to report to you that I kept him alive…
These were the words of the flight attendant as we all prepared to disembark the plane following an uneventful flight to the coast. I’ve taken a week away to come visit my mother on the north coast of California. And, frankly, I thought it was a horrid choice of words. The last thing in the…
Carla’s story touches me deeply. Her journey so very clearly and achingly demonstrates the difference between a healing journey and a curing journey. Carla, we are sending good ju-ju your way! Hello Susan, I love the page where people can share about themselves and their animals. I would love to share a bit of my…
Stephen Levine (author, meditator, and really far-out, cool fellow that I had the pleasure to meet once) says ,” Healing is the growth that each person seeks. Healing is what happens when we come to our edge, to the unexplored territory of mind and body, and take a single step into the unknown, the space…
A few years ago, I wanted to write a book about healing called, “The NATURE of Healing,” which would include nature and animal symbolism and practice in the healing journey. My publisher was not interested, as books about healing don’t tend to sell big unless you are Bernie Siegel or Depak Chopra. So, I put…