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Sammy’s Mountain, Gardens & Community

October 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · community, home & garden, nature, relationships

Our driveway has a vast hill of fertile dirt in it because we are finally building a garden, having spurned the lawn our builder offered to put in for us. We’ve named this temporary geographical feature Sammy’s Mountain because

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Embracing Our Sphere Of Influence

January 7th, 2010 · 5 Comments · energy, entertainment, food & drink, global warming and climate change, health & well being, home & garden, nature, spirituality & religion, sustainability, transportation

Have you ever stared down a paralyzing fear – and gained mastery of it, to where you then walked into your power, your sphere of influence? This is my long-promised sequel to Alison Cassandra Barcelona, in which I’ll tell why I feel hope rather than despair about

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Back From New Year’s Retreat

January 4th, 2010 · No Comments · home & garden, money, simplicity

Thor and I returned yesterday from our annual New Year’s retreat, which we take together  each year, just the two of us, to go into our deep inner lives and look at our intentions for 2010. This year we

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Winter Solstice And The Unconquered Sun And Son

December 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · home & garden, lifestyle, nature, spirituality & religion

The first part of this piece I posted last year, on the 2008 winter solstice. The rest of it I added for 2009. Today is winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. In the days long before fossil fuels routinely lit our nights, winter solstice was celebrated as the Birthday of the Unconquered Sun. [...]

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Enchanted With What I’ve Already Got, Part II

December 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · community, food & drink, home & garden

What do I feel like eating tonight? Shall I drop by the grocery store for it, or go out? That is a game I’ve often played in my life, a modern game common in developed countries because we have so many choices, so much food, so many restaurants. It hasn’t been proven, though, that the [...]

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