Certainly an advantage to being a house sitter in a new community, rather than a tourist, is that I have unrestricted time to mosey through market and residential areas that aren’t featured in Chamber …
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I’m house sitting in a beautiful home in the town of Langley on Whidbey Island in Washington State, way up at the northwest tip of America where it’s only a giant’s step into Canada. A large, mature, …
Marko Pogačnik's Sacred Geography: Geomancy: Co-Creating the Earth Cosmos (pub 2007) is the most important book I read in 2018. I heard Marko present his perspectives at the "Co-Creative Spirituality: …
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"We store 'incompletes,' things that we do not want to handle, and put [them] into the 'back of our minds.' They don't go away, as we might hope. They surface, usually in unpredictable ways and …
Continue Reading about *Letting Go of Stuff 2: Empty at Last
When people ask me where I’m from, I feel apologetic that I don't have a one-word answer. “Well,” I say, “I’m a nomad. I house sit for people who live in places that interest me.” You wouldn't …
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“Be wary of stuff. Be careful what you purchase, what you save, what you pack into plastic storage boxes. Stuff can hog-tie your life.” …
Continue Reading about *Letting Go of Stuff 1: Gnashing My Teeth
He wrote that I should look for the tall Japanese man with the bald head. Okay. I walked into Counter Culture Cafe in Santa Fe and greeted him, mispronouncing his name. I said it as “jen”— he …
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I’ve encountered nothing but kindness and charm in Albuquerque, NM, and I’ve been housesitting in this city for three months already. Here in Albuquerque's North Valley where I temporarily live, …
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An Occasional Post on Art that Thrills Me Boredom is also the mother of invention. Back-in-the-day, we entertained ourselves in the evening—reading, conversing, playing, singing, writing, carving, …
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I got to Gate 148 in the LAX International Terminal very early. The lounge was almost empty, thank goodness, for I wanted to sit close to the staffing desk. When the flight check-in people arrived, I …
