"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky."   ~ Kahlil Gibran     Greetings to our friends and community,   As summer winds to an end, I wanted … [Read more...]

Greetings to our friends and community, The radiance and warmth of high summer has arrived as we enter the heart of Leo season. It’s time to luxuriate in languid picnics, long beach walks, … [Read more...]

Once again, a new world view is arising ... This idea is the culmination of all human history. It holds the promise of fulfilling the great aspirations of the past and heralds the advent of the next … [Read more...]

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. ~James Carroll Spring! This Santa Barbara spring promises to be spectacular. Our world … [Read more...]

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." ~Lao Tzu   Happy New Year! Happy Now Here! We welcome this sweet time of transition between one calendar year and another.  … [Read more...]

  Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.  It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a … [Read more...]

Like spring secretly at work within the heart of winter, below the surface of our lives huge changes are in fermentation. We never suspect a thing. Then when the grip of some long-enduring winter … [Read more...]

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. ~Edwin Way Teale   Greetings to our friends and … [Read more...]

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face.  It is one of the few havens … [Read more...]