We pulled in to Nevada City from Road Trip 2008 on Friday, three days ago. Today is the first day of being back in “take care of business” mode. As it was when I left, community work (our first Nevada City Farmers Market was on Saturday!!) is taking a significant amount of my energies. In [...]

Turning the Mind into an Ally.

This is an easy to read and understand book on meditation by Sakyong Mipham with a forward by Pema Chodron.
You can read more about my thoughts on it in this post.
(Normally I’d include a picture of the cover but this one is basically all white and sort of hard [...]

This article was originally published in The Simplifier #66.
Article: Vacationing – Your inner masseuse vs. your inner drill sergeant
By Shawn Tuttle
I think it’d be safe to assume that you’d rather go on vacation with a masseuse than a drill sergeant. In fact, you’d probably enjoy deep relaxation more than jump-and-run orders all the time.  [...]

Don’t worry, I’m not posting all 589 photos, just some highlights. I thought the pictures from my Palm Treo phone were looking OK until I saw the shots from Mark’s ….what is his camera? Lucent? Geez, I don’t remember and he’s not here to ask. Rest assured, it’s a mucho better camera than mine.
2 shots [...]

Slippery fingers deleted all the pictures and the rest of the blog post Road Trip 2008 photos right before I hit “publish” (way Bummer!!). I had to leave and didn’t have time to redo it. Now I’m on a different computer so don’t have all the writing that is on my Second Brain. I should [...]

Don’t worry, I’m not posting all 589 photos, just some highlights. I thought the pictures from my Palm Treo phone were looking OK until I saw the shots from Mark’s ….what is his camera? Lucent? Geez, I don’t remember and he’s not here to ask. Rest assured, it’s a mucho better camera than mine.

Little steps get you up the mountain, eh? A couple of weeks ago I wrote that I had a goal to get a video on youtube.com by the end of Road Trip 2008. My sister Erin lent me her camera and a couple of tapes to get rolling.
I was talking with her (using bluetooth [...]