January 21, 2021

Image: Nina Bisognani I am grateful for every simple and necessary thing: souls with open hearts and listening ears, both human and creature-kind.  The achingly beautiful stories of this earth, told in a million, quiet ways: an egg, hatched; how dusk settles like a...

January 14, 2021

Image: Melanie Kyer Cooking Lessons I love to cook and bake, especially at the holidays. I am often using tried and true recipes, or maybe no recipe at all, just improvising by how the chili tastes, or how the dough “feels.” Sometimes, though, it is a new recipe or...

January 7, 2021

                                                                                                          Image: Barbara Ryther and Nina Bisognani Reflecting on 2020 We are leaving the old year and with it many things we are probably happy to leave behind,but there...