Plant-Based Lifestyle Epiphanies

Under the Pear Tree: Sweet Nothing

May 14, 2013

“Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!” –Zora Neal Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God The legends go that both Buddha and later Isaac Newton were sitting under a tree when they received the world changing insights they are each known for. [...]

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In the Garden: Thinning

May 6, 2013

We all love the blossoms of Spring. What we tend to forget about is the long latency period required to produce the blossoms we love so much. Sometimes even leafing out again is a kind of miracle. Like this grapevine. I started it from the top branch of one my neighbor Keith had grown for [...]

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Picking Cherries, Part 2: The Power of Refusal

April 16, 2013

I met Abraham last summer at the height of cherry season. I was standing at the cartons of cherries shaded under a tent at the Farmer’s Market, picking some out. He came up to me to ask about my service dog, Romeo, who is a Silken Windhound. His manner was formal, yet gentle. His voice [...]

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Signs of Spring (and Lemony Kale Pesto)

April 5, 2013

For now, anyway, it looks like we’re getting an early Spring on the Palouse. Of course, in this microclimate the weather could turn on a dime, and the ground be covered with snow in late or mid-April. But for now, it’s here. While I can’t gather ye rosebuds while ye may just yet, since my roses haven’t even [...]

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Reflections on Directions

April 1, 2013

I am a person people ask directions of.  Always have been.  It’s been the case that any time  I bicycled or walked down a street, cars would slow to ask me where they were or where they were going.  Amazingly, I always knew. When I became mostly confined to my house years ago, I thought [...]

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Nap Time

March 8, 2013

I got to giggling today. Remember those kids in your kindergarten or preschool class, the ones who wouldn’t stay still during “quiet time” or “nap” and instead scooted around the floor on their blankets, hoping to engage other would-be nappers in wiggling or whispering? Like Tommy Smith, aka “Tommy Salami,” in my long ago kindergarten [...]

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The Envelope Please

February 26, 2013

Anyone who’s ever sent out a poem or a short story to a literary magazine or contest in the snail mail knows the drill about including the required self addressed stamped envelope, known by the acronym SASE. Before the dawn of e-mail, these babies were the only way a writer found out whether or not [...]

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Full Circle

January 28, 2013

  My brain thinks better in circles than straight lines.  When I started having cognitive difficulties from the Multiple Sclerosis, one of the first things to become unpredictable was linear tracking. So I am lucky that I  am also at home thinking in symmetries, correspondences, any pattern other than a straight line. Perhaps I have [...]

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On Pointe

January 21, 2013

  A dear e-mail friend of mine who lives near NYC loves the ballet passionately. In early December she kindly sent me a link to a slide show of Henry Leutwyler photos of the New York City Ballet on the Vanity Fair web site.  As I perused the photos, sitting in my pajamas at the computer, [...]

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Window, Tree, Sky

January 12, 2013

For the last 17 years, I have rarely traveled far from home. One notable exception to that occurred in the summer of 2001 when I flew to Albuquerque for an Integrative Manual Therapy Intensive at the Desert Light Clinic. My friend Fran had generously offered to go with me; she and her husband donated many [...]

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