It’s Thursday night, and two weeks ago, Daniel and I and Raul, (Daniel’s brother), sat in a tapas restaurant on Haight Street in San Francisco, California– the beginning of our California adventure, our California vacation –and what a vacation it was! Two weeks ago, Thursday morning, Daniel, Tunas, Nata, and I left the house at [...]
in the winter of 2004/2005, I began baking bread. I lived in Michigan at the time with my parents and my brother, Josh, and bread-baking became my hobby. My mom introduced me to my dad’s old copy of BEARD ON BREAD by James Beard, and I set out to recreate recipe after recipe. Not precisely. [...]
Tonight I’ve got a mind-full on my mind. Daniel and I watched this…amazing…incredible…awe-ing…and haunting… film. HOME from 2009. made by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. With out of this world, yet so totally of this world, photography and eco-political narration I was … … … well, it looks like I was speechless. but actually, to the contrary. I [...]
I am. satisfied. I’ve been thinking about satisfaction as often as I have lately. What it means and how one can find and accumulate this appreciation. satisfaction has never been a challenge for me. or maybe at times it has. yet these days, I am armed with affirmation and appreciation, and thus the world and [...]
mice and snakes. snakes and mice. two peas in a pod. hopefully not. We’ve got a snake living outside our front door. hopefully not much longer. We cleared the area and discovered it’s got a little hiding spot inside a crack in the cement. Maybe it will leave soon though. I do not mind it [...]
I am listening to Joanna Newsom. smiling– words words words, piano-harp, sweet sweetness. the days end draws near. Today I was seeding chiles, sweet peppers, and more tomatoes in the hoophouse. sweating. and sweating. and sweating. I wonder if it’s TOO HOT (?) in there. slash glorious heat. the house breaks the wind and soaks [...]
It turns out that there is a system of trails in the mountains behind our house! oh surprise surprise! Three months after my arrival here, we venture across the rickety bridge at the bottom of the bottomland that crosses the Mora River. The bridge wants repairs and supports…definitely…and it works! We walk slash crawl supporting [...]
This weekend National Eating Disorder Awareness Week concludes; this year’s theme, “It’s time to Talk about it” resonates deeply with me. Last year, I wrote, “It seems that right now…that this year…I know less and less people who are talking about eating disorders. Maybe it is because I am talking less about eating disorders. I [...]
*delayed posting! written Wednesday February 09, 2011* ha. I remember a year or so ago when I wrote a blog on the snowiest day, when everyone kept grumbling about the snow that was called “the most beautiful day.” slash to me, it was blissy-blissy-bliss-bliss. Well, today was beautiful similarly and differently. The temperatures here have [...]
kombucha brew becoming on the stove. cracking open the dehydrated apples and pears and asian pears from the farm. weaving for work. I started weaving on January 10, 2011, and have been working four days a week at the Mora Valley Spinning Mill slash Tapetes de Lana, learning the art. I have made seven sets [...]