It started, fittingly enough, with a walk for hunger—one of those community walk-a-thons that raises money for local food banks and overseas charities. It was a nice autumn day, clear and bright, the red and green leaves of the dogwood tree glowing like stained glass and the sloping bank out [...]
Apologies to the raccoons
...and many thanks to the Beehive Collective up in Maine for creating this and many other wonderful images. They've taken on a lot of important issues over the years--their latest is mountaintop removal in Appalachia. Stay tuned.
Straying Home
I've started another blog, a chapter-by-chapter, week-by-week serial about the changes I made in my life and what went before. I'm calling it "Straying Home", and when it's all online I'm going to publish it as a book. If you want to watch it in progress you can go to www.strayinghome.wordpress.com
The Invisible Chair
The best seat in our house is definitely The Invisible Chair. Mark invented it a couple of years ago and we've got the prototype in the living room. Most days it's just a chair--we sit on it to use the house computer, we pull it out on the porch when we need an extra place to sit, visiting children have crayoned on it--but on evenings when people sit around playing music, it reveals its other side.....-
..we can choose to live in joy.
"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrow, but we can choose to live in joy." Joseph Campbell 1904-1987
All six hens are laying now--brown eggs from the two Barred Rocks and these lovely little blue-green eggs from the Americaunas.
