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I love mid-summer here. The days are warm and sunny, but not too hot and the nights are still cool. Everything is growing and producing. I'm getting surplus veggies from my former roomie who has done a great job with the garden beds I left behind. She went wild with heirloom tomatoes and I call her gardens Tomato National Forest. Her first ripe ones are just coming this week and they are YUMMMMMM! I had some of the first picking last night in a big salsa salad. The local peaches from the farm wh… Continue

Wow! Is it summer already? Somewhere between spring and summer my healing retreat ended softly and gently and I shifted my increasing energies and strength towards "doing the life". I've returned to earning my living and find myself with an abundance of work, even after raising my labor rates. I moved in early June from the farm alongside the river to an unfinished cabin on a ridgetop overlooking the wilderness of California's Lost Coast. The cabin belongs to one of my clients and I'm looking f… Continue

How apt the title of this blog is for me personally. As some of you may know, Winter gave me a pretty good kick on its way out and I became ill with severe flu-like symptoms and high fevers. I water fasted for 10 or so days not entirely by choice. It's hard to remember details of time for this period. I spent most of my time in bed just focusing on the peach trees in bloom outside my window by day the grain of the wood on my closet doors when it was dark outdoors and feeling grate… Continue