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I have been at my destination for several days now. How do I know I am here? The first sign is that I am content and I am no longer questing. The second sign is that I am very relaxed. Third sign is that I think I have heard a message. This year I thinkContinue reading “Wes Heil – Be well”

The peace of the season is becoming natural. It’s been four weeks since I started my retreat and I am turning toward the center, walking ever so slowly, and realizing that I am halfway there. At this point, the only thing I will buy until mid-January is food for the table. Such gifts as IContinue reading “Peace and bliss”

Another week passes, and another turn around the spiral is made. This one is easier, a sense of a worn-down path allows me to travel without thinking so much about my feet. The realization that all things are sacred makes the journey one of constant blessings acknowledged  and constant gratitude offered to the Spirits ofContinue reading “Spiralling deeper”

Dark Moon, we hear you calling. Bright Moon, we call your name. Crescent Moon we sing with you. Crescent Moon we sing with you. Ivo Dominguez Jr. For the past week, I’ve been on the first part of my spiral journey to stillness and to the center of the heart. The road has been rockyContinue reading “Under the same Crescent Moon”

Here it is, the first week of November and I feel I am way behind in experiencing the season of Autumn. How did the leaves fall overnight? I should have picked apples. The outside stuff isn’t all put away for the season. Do I have enough firewood? Am I provisioned for winter?  Where are myContinue reading “Rushing to slow down”

Work has begun in earnest on the treehouse. The first step was to remove anything that does not belong to the vision of the future. That included be the rotten floor, the plywood siding, and the luan walls and ceiling. The wall studs had to come out because the guy who built it put thoseContinue reading “Of course there will be many windows”

When I used to go shopping in a store, in that way that we did before the pandemic, one way that I used to make sure that I really needed something as opposed to just wanting it, was to set in back on the shelf and prepare to leave the shop. If I got toContinue reading “The Folly”

Today at the Jolly Bungalow, it is a little chilly and I am starting to look forward to autumn with great joy. While summer is nice for raising a garden and sleeping under the stars, it’s also buggy and sticky. Autumn is crisp and fresh, and is the time for enjoying the harvest. My gardenContinue reading “Autumn’s approach”

It’s funny that I would say that words matter, given that my first language is color, but I am forced to make words out of the colors and patterns that flow through my brain if I want to communicate. I can’t say to you that I read an article in the local paper that madeContinue reading “Words Matter”

Today I polished the dining room table, rubbing the fragrant mixture of oils and beeswax first in circles, and then when the oil had soaked into the wood and left a dry film of beeswax on top of the table, I rubbed it in a long strokes until it gleamed.  Then I chose a clothContinue reading “The Gleaming Board”