I got to sit with a sick animal yesterday and it was an emotional experience. Friday driving home we saw a raccoon at the side of the road and he was very slow moving and we thought he might have a broken leg. We stopped the car, then watched him walk across the road into […]
Hello and welcome to the January 2015 edition of Horizons Magazine. We’re loving the cooler weather in Florida! 50 degree nights are perfect for sitting out at the firepit. I love having woods on three sides of me. I can feel completely isolated away from civilization yet the neighborhood is right on the other side […]
Andrea de Michaelis is a writer, speaker, visionary and publisher of Horizons, Florida’s mind/body/spirit magazine since 1992. I became a student of meditation and yoga philosophy shortly after graduating from high school in Hialeah, Florida, where I grew up just blocks from the world famous Flamingo Race Track. During the 1970’s, I explored various philosophies, […]
Charley is my closest neighbor to the west, 4 lots of woods away. He ripped out my mailbox on Mother’s Day 2010, and his dog bit me in 2007. He has a habit of waving as he drives past my property, a big exaggerated hello in the direction of the giant bamboo. I suppose he […]
Today I found a small tick on Benny, thankfully it was on the top of his fur. That was enough to send me into a frenzy washing all the fabric in the house. Yes, I just did it last week after my cold, but we’re only talking maybe 20 towels, sheets, blankets and pillow cases. […]
Ah, Fall! When the weather turns cool, we Floridians like to grill out on the deck, sit on the screened porch and create outdoor sitting areas. A word of advice to do it yourselfers: Get a permit! Code Enforcement are ninja and miss nothing. A friend put up a fence and deck last year and […]
What does an Aries x5 do while waiting for the faces of previous in-progress paintings to come to me? Begin another! Here’s the under painting for the Watcher at the Window. I’m not sure what colors I’ll use yet but know I wanted these as a base. I’ve Photoshopped in this pic the moon and […]
I spent a few hours today cutting palmettos and grapevines as I opened up another area of the yard. Since the tree cutters came and changed the landscape here, I’ve taken the opportunity to make some changes of my own. I usually let the natural trails in my woods grow over during the summer and […]
I went outside predawn yesterday to water in the back garden area, newly cleared by the power company tree cutters. It was my first sunrise in the new space. Usually I don’t see the sun until it rises over the treeline to the east, which is generally a couple of hours after sunrise. Yesterday I […]
Here’s my giant spirit oak after the power company contractors cut it away from the power line — The Universe sends me tree cutters. I’ve got a great open space now and sunshine for my turk’s cap and arbicola along the privacy fence beneath it to grow. It’s the only spot in the back of […]