Solstice weekend now and forever will have a more personal meaning. This 2 part post is about my dear friend Katrina, who like the hurricane,was a force of nature. Katrina died of cancer at the age of 51 in 2003 on June 19th at 11:45pm, 15 minutes before the solstice.  The gifts she gave me in her courageous life and ...

This is the next post in the series, ''Hi Honey, I'm Home'', as we work with the contest, ''Where's Home?'' It's been raining here in Central Oregon for a week.  Many of you may say, 'isn't that what it does in Oregon--rain?' and you would be correct...except that here in the high desert, east of the Cascade Range, it doesn't!  We get ...

For this, the 100th post on my blog, I want to tell all y'all a story that I've been thinking about for awhile. Callie Ann is the adult daughter of a woman I worked with a long time ago in a land far away called Florida.  Now in her 40's, Callie Ann has Down's Syndrome.  She works at the sheltered workshop every day.  She ...

A Language Older Than Words ''There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even know that it exists.''  -Derrick Jensen Do these words speak ...