just out from the canopy frame,  you can see a little that is left from last year.  Clear gravel and crushed stone.  The rest is covered mostly with clover.  That thing about the front and the back that the Rinpoche taught at Jewel Heart Temple in Ann Arbor so many years ago:  The bigger the…

      she is a year and a half old.  In this Rain Time we spend some hours sitting at the table.  She has things she can take from the window Altar.  The two boxes of incense.  3 spools of thread,  a pen with masking tape around it to mark it as hers,  Michelle's…

a couple weeks ago i took the chance and dared to transplant this Storks Bill.  It had found it's place in the Wall Garden bed at some point last summer or fall or even early winter?   I found it down where last garden's bell peppers had been.  About a foot wide already.  flourishing.   They become…

  She says it's her last go round.  Jude Hill.  Spirit Cloth.  i tried to remember when i found her.  It was from a link in an article in Cloth Paper Scissors Magazine,  which i read online late one night….the words Spirit     Cloth  .   I remember typing it in.  The blog opening before my…

when i posted that pic a few days ago with the stones,  acorn and bone,   i sat with  that composition for a long time.  Have recreated it several times since.   The stones, bone and acorn have taken their place on the Work Altar on the shelf behind where i sit here at the table.   They…

March 25th issue of The Nation,  in my post office box. Greta Thunberg.  16 years old.  Her presentations at the UN and Davos on UTube.   Greta Thunberg rode the train for 32 hours from Sweden to Davos.  There,  as she had at the United Nations,  she addressed the Powers That Be.  She addressed all of…

    these were not here last spring,  my first spring.  Or…if they were,  not like this.  There are clusters of plants throughout the crazy growing grass and clover at Campsite A.    I look at them,  their small community clusters I am so HAPPY about the immediate response to need,  to hope,  to someone…

it was November 8, 2018,  the Camp Fire that decimated  the town of Paradise, completely.  Severely damaged the nearby towns of   Concow and Magalia.   The fire that came just a few miles from this Hill.   You might remember that Suzie Yonts  commented on the blog while i was evacuated with the Goats and Talkie to…

the Live Oak on this Hill.  Many.  and many have multiple trunks.  this one is in the old Doe Goat Forest…in this pic you see 5.  There's actually 6.  I don't know anything about how this occurs.  So far,  i find no information.  But it IS.  and i will continue to look.  I want to…

it was when i was in my early 30's that i sat,  holding a stone,  listening.  I try to remember what came of that,  something specific,  and i can't.   It was during the time when i was being flooded with so much that was new to me and so much from "out there",  All the…