Lacelady sent one of her "boxes" .  In it,  the Lion's Roar  Special Edition.  Awaken your Heart and Mind.  The best Buddhist Wisdom from the pages of Lion's Roar.  In it,  this Special Edition,  is  Rebecca Solnit.  "hope includes uncertainty.  We don't know what's going to happen next,  and that gives us room to…

the Morning Tree.  Many of her leaves have fallen.  an Oak.  She is an Oak.    it's Solstice.  the shortest day in a year,  the least Light.  You wake and then it's dark.  It's dark now.  I was just out to feed the buck Goats while there was light…to see to put feed,  Them,  to…

we went to the Rocks.  Boulders, really.   In the distance a little,  you can see Talkie.  She came.     Solstice Eve.  the Rocks.  How Puppy,  usually not so much for photographs didn't mind.   This is how i would like to be.  Like Puppy,  indistinguishable from Place .   Simply, part of Place.…

    and how that's the thing we can count on,  that  someThing  is always born.  And will be born    The Begin Again will always begin again.  Maybe letting go of What we might want to begin again and just go with the faith that it will take care of its  Self.

there's an article in the local newspaper telling the story of a young woman,  25 and her mother,  66.   The  daughter fled the fire.  Her mother refused to go,  said there was time enough.   and died in it.  There is a large photograph on the front page of her,  the daughter,  her fingers…

Asking     6 x 7 in    $45   Grace and Magic    9 x 16    $70   Stand and Face What you know      13 x 24     $130   Celebrate    8 x 11     $55 Until i learn how to post them in the Shop on the…

one of the two Collard Trees.   All that remains of things i personally bought,  or planted.    when i was down to the Wall Garden,  having walked through Campsite B,  onto the road,  down,  i thought.  Goats followed along,  Puppy bounded ahead,  Tay after her.  It's wet.  The road,  Carefree Way is wet.  Water…

it was just moist in the morning,  till about noon and i walked again.  Still looking for those two little Ferns and spend time with this rock.  how it's cracked.   It's a large rock.  granite.  i wish i'd taken a closer photograph of the crack line.  I'll do that tomorrow maybe.     and…

i wish this could be scratch and sniff.   It was a misty,  sometimes foggy day.  Slight rainfall off and on and i found self wandering,  looking for those two little ferns i saw the other day.  Could not find.  But there is such Energy,  you can feel the earth vibrating with it's  wet work…

  so we are ready now,  to find out more about this Joy Cloth….   I went to a laundromat today.  Alyssia has been doing my laundry at her place in Chico for a year.  This month,  her washer has been giving up the ghost.  So off to the laundromat.  This is the first one…