I love being a grown up: living in my own house on my own land with my own loved ones. Getting to stay up all night long if I want to. Getting to do what I want when I want, eat and drink what I want – even popcorn on the couch if I want […]
An early morning romp in the yard with lots of love bites to show for it. The bamboo is skyrocketing, I know how it feels! I put the final touches on the September Horizons and set it aside to proofread later. I went into my yard and began picking up the branch deadfall from last night’s rains. […]
I have two 2.5 acre parcels of undeveloped land in Volusia County, Florida for $6,000 each. They are 30 minutes south of Daytona Beach, between I-95 and US 1. I have several posts about this property, but this one contains all the info and links in one place. The properties can be seen from I-95, […]
It’s been a whirlwind week and I may take today off just to relax alone in the silence. I love being around friends and activity – for awhile. Then I’m ready to get back to my sanctuary and let the energy field smoothe itself out. Nature is where I revive myself, where I find myself […]
Gardening is not just a creative pasttime for me. It also helps in my personal development. Having a yard that lets me continually change the landscape as I please gives me a big feeling of managing something big in my life, and doing it in accord with Mother Nature. It helps me feel connected to […]
I forgot how totally cool it is to share space with someone who has the same basic sadhana, or daily practice I have. A friend has been visiting and mostly keeping to himself in the master suite, working on a writing project. Twice a day we’ve been doing yoga and meditation together. He’s doing silence this week […]
A yogi pal is visiting and we’ve been gardening. I went outside to do some morning watering, and ended up working on my bamboo and grapevine privacy wall. Every length of grapevine I cut was the perfect length, and every bamboo bone I chose was the perfect height. I love creating natural walls, because I […]
This is my parents’ wedding anniversary and the celebration date of my mother dropping her physical body. I had a very fun time today hanging with spirit sister Jann Rossbach – she is a most delightful playpal. I showed her around the woods and the gardens, the firepit area, the winding staircase oak on the northeast corner […]
At 5:00pm it’s not quite sundown as I finish my yoga on the new east patio. It’s really active under the oak canopy on the lot to the east of me, squirrels chasing each other, birds flitting here and there, in and out of the lawn sprinkler and bird bath, onto the oak branches to […]
Yesterday was a busy day of administrative work and catching up on phone calls and emails. I took a few breaks to walk through the property, picking up fallen branches and moving the sprinkler. Earlier in the week, I’d cut a lot of the older, lower fronds off my sabal minor palmettos. I also have some sabal minor […]