"To prolong life, worry less." -Chinese Proverb

This is how you change when you go to the orchard where the heart opens: you become fragrance and the light that burning oil gives off, long strands of grieving hair, lion and at the same time, gazelle. You’re walking alone without feet, as riverwater does. The taste of a wine that is bitter and…

Last night, as I read Harry Potter to Alexandra, there was a line where the Minister of Magic tells Harry that it’s time he shows some respect. Harry says, “It’s time you earned it.” I told Alexandra that I have used that line with my mother before. I laughingly pointed at her and said, “Don’t…

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Flowers that I got at the Farmer’s Market on Vashon and put in a vase at my B&B.  

Our revels are now ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial…

When you are stripped bare and are so transparent you feel as though you have no skin.  When time is suspended and the world opens up to a new possibility that you could never have imagined.  When the scent of honeysuckle in the night air or the tender kiss from your child makes  your heart…