~ sunsets, smiles, food, family, and friends live simply, harvest love reap peace and harmony share your joys and sorrows connect with people and nature harvest a lasting contentment know abundant happiness ~ I’ve been thinking more lately about simple living. We’ve been stuck on consumerism ever since corporations started pushing material gain as the…
I’m committing myself to finding the flow. This is a follow up to my post about the power of kindness. While that gift gave me a boost to get things rolling, I realized a deeper intention for me is wanting to merge my life with spirit. To live in grace and flow from living for…
The Terrain for Health I see so many people struggling with health and under the sway of what I believe is a false approach to health and healing. Mainstream medicine, in the US and most developed countries, is dominated by the germ theory. At it’s core, the germ theory is about finding problems (germs, viruses,…
Elementals #6 ~ tiny villages share bark, moss, fungi, water synergistic life ~ I love to see these tiny patches of life thriving on the bark of a tree. Its amazing to me how the bark, moss, and fungi synergistically thrive with each other. Each one contributing to the whole, and taking only what is…
Rain Gardens For the second month, we are having high volumes of rain. My flowers, bushes and grass are thriving. Mowing seems to be my occupation and I’m starting to feel the impact of the weather like when I lived in Portland. After a certain number of days without sunshine, I start to feel…
Would you rather be resilient or happy? I have a friend who is researching resiliency as part of her Ph. D program. In a world with more changes and challenges, it seems important to develop resiliency for both individuals and communities. My garden and nature remind me to be more resilient. According to psychologist Peter…
Love Is… Everything All We Need The Answer to Every Question The Path to Freedom Living in Peace, Ease, Joy and Flow ~ Where we embrace everything Allowing life to be exactly as it is Knowing it has no bearing on our beingness Allowing experiences, thoughts, feelings and events to parade on by While we…
Did you know that our brains are designed to connect socially? Brain researchers are discovering how much our brains have evolved to thrive on social connections. For those of you who had close loving relationships growing up, this might seem obvious. For others who grew up without close and loving relationships, this is foreign territory.…
Are you ready to thrive in 2014? With so many people talking about goals, intentions and resolutions, I wanted to offer some tips to not only start the year with a boost of energy, but offer the tools to maintain your progress. From my experience, commitment and process are the keys to achieving our goals.…
Thriving is my overall goal in life. Writing, photography and play are 3 key elements in that plan. What are you doing to reach your dreams and goals? Here are 9 Tips for Thriving. Maybe I need to add play! Meanwhile, read this week’s Awesome Stories for inspiration on living fully. Thoughts from Within Poem…
writing to freedom 