Sunday, October 24, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
Sunday, May 17, 2009
The Days of Dandelions
What is more reminiscent of childhood than Grandma's cookies and Dandelions? Spring has sprung at the yurts and we have begun to find all kinds of wonderful plants and creatures around here! The frogs serenade us in between rainfall each midnight. We have been stuck in the mud down by the creek while taking in the sweet aroma of skunk cabbage. We have witnessed a tiny cotton ball looking thing turn into a million tiny spiders. We have been thrilled by watching the grass seed turn into grass. A sparrow family has taken up residence in our garden bird house. Today we saw a crow catch a garter snake out in the tall grass near our garden. Everyday has been a wonderful adventure of exploration! I love seeing the world through the eyes of a child! Dandelions are full of beauty and magic, not something to disdain.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Almost 1 year!
Wow! It is approaching that time of year when we finalized our decisions about purchasing yurts! I love looking back on the pictures and the stories that make up our past year! Our yurts are so amazing. Our garden is coming together and now with the covered bridge between the two yurts, our home feels like a some kind of special spa retreat.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
The Bridge
“In the early 1990s-it was December-I was sitting in meditation under the green dome that houses Rumi’s tomb in Konya. Some one came up and gave me a green shawl. As you might imagine, I treasure it still and use it in my meditation. I love the wrapped, rapt feeling.
Going in, feeling the limpid contentment in being oneself and the endless discovery there: the green shawl is that, reminiscent of a child’s tent-making delight, the rainy-day times when you spread a sheet over a card table and chair, anchored it with safety pins, and crept under the shelter where imagination could flower. How we forget this tent making for such long spans is a mystery in itself.”
There is of course still much more to do and projects will continue through out the winter, but a lot of energy was used up this summer and I can feel the need for a little slowing down, to focus more on maintaining our selves nicely through out the winter and regroup to the necessities that are still needed. The summer was wonderful, to build a home is incredible, to have a taste of growing strong in body and sharp in mind is remembered as a kind of birthright I hope every one gets to experience in their own way, and pray will return to me as often as possible through out this life. There is more to do, maybe in any good adventure there always will be and that’s OK because it has been a very good adventure. At times it seems a little crazy to have made a home of tents, I am glad in reading from Coleman Barks that we are not alone in such a longing.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Round...and Round
There are those rare moments in my life when I’ve stepped back and been truly amazed at some course of personal action, a “holy crap!” exhalation is made and for a moment the universe is pretty darn cool place to be in. When I step back and look at these yurts and the idea to make a home out of them I feel this summer’s yurt building experience fall easily into that list of rarities, and the universe is feeling pretty darn cool.
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