the girls fround this baby Gopher Snake.   We were cautious until deciding it was not a rattlesnake….the Sierra Nevada  Gopher Snake looking so similar,  at first glance,   the patterning,    behavior.    Size of a soba noodle.  maybe almost a foot long.  10" for sure.    and  then we saw that it was dead. …

i looked  UP to see if i could see the oh so small bird that has the Song of only one note…..that it was singing     just overhead   and couldn't see it because it's too small and grey and smallandgrey but i did see the crazy branches of these Foothill Pines  Pinus sabiniana  California Foothill…

On Being    the Pause   Newsletter Go to YouTube   type in  Ayisha Siddiqa    look for the On Being signiture  the poem     On  Another Panel About Climate Change       They Ask Me To Sell the Future   and All I've  Got Is a Love Poem.   last line being:  "i'd follow love into extinction" …

" leaves good.  cooked  with garlic, sauteed.   An easy grain crop to harvest and use.  delicious,  can be popped like popcorn. Makes wonderful cereal.   yields extremely well with  minimal water.   chickens love it too."   Making Home  Sharon Astyk

each day,   their own selves.   this one,   a Gentle Day.    a day of watching shadows,   the OtherBeings  of beings.  The  other  forest of  Tree people,  Tree Beings,   of  things  we say are      in~animate     but caste shadow  that     talks.

mid week Farmer's Market.  OK.    Before Covid,   when i first got here,  Emrie and I  would go.   She was little. We held hands and looked.   And then,  Covid and we didn't go.  And then last year when Brinley and her father moved in with Alyssia,  and  Jax came,  so many days a week,   i…

  Jenny had brought two Sweet Potatoes that had been languishing in her pantry.    Well,  not really,  they were totally Willing,  to be food,  as is,  OR  to go forward into their Next…. anyway,   she set them just inside the gate at B Garden when she came on the weekend.    Just there.   Them. …

looking out the Morning Window….by the car,    Black.   the swing.    together.   Double click.   He stood there.   Just like that.  For i don't know how long….like….10 min?    until i couldn't watch any longer and i called out his name,  thinking maybe he was stuck?  His head popped out and he went along on…

coming up from B Garden late.  It's 8:27 pm.  90 degrees.   Something isn't right with camera,   the sky is flaming red with Sun Set.   Lo tonight   80. Again today Jenny and Alyssia ,  as yesterday,   come at dawn to fit in a few hours of Doing.   Yesterday,  the gate  for the new rim fence.  Today, …

are waiting for me.