Checking In

When we moved here, almost eleven years ago, this place was just an ordinary American lot with a nice house on it. With a lawn that needed mowing, and a few trees needing nothing. Lots of potential — especially for a person like me who likes things natural natural natural. But before we moved in … I had a plan.

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a slice of stewardship

dear friend,  here is an excerpt from “More Than Dust,” the book i’m writing. enjoy!   Timote and I traveled to Jamaica, our trip funded by a grant to discover a feared-extinct medicinal plant that researchers desperately needed, for a possible cancer-killing alkaloid they’d isolated from an old specimen, in a lab. Tim and I…

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change…the only constant in the Universe

i’m off to cambridge, mass for a fun-filled, information-packed reunion at the revered alma mater of my spouse, and to celebrate life and all its changes with our good friends of many years. change…the only thing you can count on … i’m thinking how i change … my body … where i am … my…

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need a little neem?

Hi friend, a new friend came into my life on saturday night, when we had a satsang at our house. “satsang” is a sanskrit term for “being in company of Truth.” it is what you call the time when seekers of all sorts get together purposefully for the opportunity to be as One, to honor the Inner…

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