Check out this vintage lacquered tray I acquired on a road trip a couple years ago. It isn’t high-end or of any significant value but it has a certain charm that lies in its simple hand-painted design. I like to envision an artist at a workbench using paint and brush to add a highlight here … Continue reading Brushstrokes →

Sometimes you’ve got it all going on. Life is working. Life is good. And in that season (or moment) the almost magical overflow of abundance you’re experiencing spills over onto those in closest proximity. It could be knowledge, resources, a flood of creativity, even torrents of courage or streams of joy that now flow through … Continue reading Spillover →

There used to be a gorgeous red rose bush growing in the entryway of my home. It did fairly well in that location but for some long-forgotten reason I dug it up and transplanted it into a perfect spot in the back garden. This dear rose bush has continually thanked me for the re-plant by … Continue reading Rosebud →

The most precious marauder just made a flying leap at the hanging dove feeder that I’d filled with bird seed only an hour before. Seeing that he is, in fact not a bird, nevertheless he has moxie in spades which seems to give him the notion that he can fly through the air. With or … Continue reading Go For It →

Now THIS is what a proper bougainvillea is supposed to look like. Covered in papery textured “flowers” in riotously brilliant display. What a stunner! That’s not what the bougainvillea on my patio looks like though. It’s not really mine, but the growth that spills over the fence between my neighbor’s place and mine, FEELS like … Continue reading What We Think →

The Joyful Life Magazine REST Summer 2021 I haven’t been posting since March while I’ve been up to other things. So excited to share that The Joyful Life magazine (a beautifully created women’s quarterly publication) included a piece I wrote in their summer 2021 issue. Become Broken is a story written in the heart of … Continue reading Become Broken →

It dawned on me very recently that some years ago, when my father passed from an untreatable and excruciatingly painful bone marrow cancer, he was then only a few months older than I am now. Geez. It was and is a sobering realization of loss, of mortality and of appreciation for this one life. And … Continue reading Breaking Bread →

Just look at what was in the sky as I took a drive up the California coast yesterday. It had been raining off and on for miles. Up ahead in the distance I could see an opening in the clouds above. To my amazement, as I drove on, the open space began to form the … Continue reading Searching For →

On a recent drive I noticed an eager landscape team busy at work on a long stretch of beautifully flowering hedges. They were using what looked like a 3 foot long serrated power saw to put a nice curved shape into said hedgerow. Lovely. But why, oh why, as spring is about to burst upon … Continue reading Cut Away →