The hillside is forested, with weeds and brambles filling in the empty spaces, and if you look closely, you can see that, like the house itself, there is plentiful evidence of neglect and abandonment.

When I finish all of my electronic tasks and log off of the game, the sense of accomplishment gives me the same level of reward as drying the last dish and hanging up the towel.

We've brought this to almost every winter-holiday potluck that we've attended over the last eight years or so, because it's SO good.

When people come to visit, or we're able to visit friends, reading comments and posts from friends, getting a text, my heart always opens up, and I feel so much happier.

Chronic pain is never ending, something I cannot begin to fathom.

I'm grateful for the tapestry of creation and the threads we travel along.

The Herb Shop is galloping toward completion.

At the end of today, we'll do whatever is next on the list, with mudding and taping being top contenders for Next.

The habits of high efficiency, productivity, and ease-of-use have led us into this disposable economy.

My primary goal for yesterday was to move through the day with joy.

Bulbs hold such promise of springtime beauty and delight, so they were a powerful lure, sitting, quietly whistling their alluring song at the entrance to Home Depot, weeks ago.

If there is no separation between work, social, and personal, our brains don't get to shift gear.

I find that it helps to start the day with something I love to do, giving joy room to build, and then the circle can feed itself.

It's wise to keep your dancing shoes at hand, to move gracefully through the whirlwind that life can unleash around you.

Now, we are once again surrounded by the familiar.

Imagine the surprise and dismay of opening your first pumpkin and looking down into all that pale orange mess, the strings, the seeds, the oddity of it, the slippery randomness of it.

It's a wondrous time to be living on this planet, watching this subtle wisdom emerge from the shadows.

No matter the size of the task, if we start where we are and begin moving forward, we focus our energy and it carves out room in front of us so we can keep taking steps forward, until, wow, we've done it.