inSpirations and inSights on my pebbled garden path…
Actually every day is a mother's day.  This lifetime commitment isn't always easy, celebrated, or what you thought it would be. I've been lucky enough to be Bess' Mom for 13 years but she's the one teaching me. Bess is my beloved Border Collie who romps around the garden and shows me how to love …
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day sat on my bucket list for several years. With no events offered in my small, semi-rural community, I made up my mind last year to drive 1.5 hours to participate. The powerful group energy felt like a profoundly calming universal hug, not to mention the good people I met …
I grew up seeing public service messages of a Native American crying about litter strewn across the land and water they honored. The message stuck. I don't litter. And I honor, I love, Mother Earth and our environment. When Earth Day began in 1970, it seemed like a good idea at the time. It still …
...to do the right thing. Please, if you love your pet you need to watch this ASAP. There are several segments but each one is available to see for only 24 hours. I offer this because I gravitate to nature and natural treatments. Much of the critical information is shockingly true for our pets, ourselves …
Death is not so permanent as one might think. When contemplating compost, you more fully understand the cycle of life. Fruits and vegetables provide nutrition to us. Flowers offer beauty. When their peelings, parings, stems and leaves are tossed into the bin to decompose, in time they become nutrition for the soil.  Black gold I …
I do not understand the language of texting, or bar codes containing paragraphs of information. I do not understand how people do not know how to count change, what their own phone number is, or how communication and society have morphed into a world of antonyms. Words such as cooperation, negotiation, impartial, conversation, politeness, and respect …
The calendar indicates today is "Palm Sunday."Â Being a religious holiday, I often wondered in my youth why it wasn't called "Psalm Sunday" but as a gardener I'm just as happy to see green palms after a long, grey winter. And while it's (sadly) becoming increasingly unpopular and even dangerous to identify with any religious …
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Missed starting over for the New Year, like so many do? Don't feel bad. It may have been Day 1 on the calendar, but Mother Nature begins anew with Spring. You can too. Becoming more aware of the paradoxes of life while studying the Tao, I suppose it's not so unusual that I occasionally rant …
wRighTing My Life 