1. Things We Do and Say
(EAT/DRINK/Foodie Research)

I love my vineyard. It's a beautiful patch of land outside Santa Rita hills near Buelleton. A great place to invite friends and have weekend picnics. Okay, it's not really my vineyard and those

2. Catching-Up Before New Years
(LIFE/Joie de Vivre)

...y a horrible cold - the worst cold i've had in years... which has given me time to consider the many many things have been going on which i've made no mention of here soooo, i'm going to start with a ...

3. The Big Blue Marble
(LIFE/Joie de Vivre)

...beliefs and their notions of love and sex and what it means to be alive on this weird blue dot, these things can actually evolve, beliefs can shift, the heart can open, and no matter where you l...

4. The Beauty of Life
(LIFE/Wildly Facinating)

This week I discovered two new things which are simple but alas make my life beautiful... The neighbor kids playing on their bikes each evening in front of my house, speeding through the sprinkle

5. Abraham-Hicks
(Newsflashes/Quotes)

...logical steps come to you faster. Work the bugs out in your imagination. You don't have to build little things and bigger things. You can do it all in your mind. We're not talking about the next lo...

6. There Was A Time
(LIFE/Esprit d\'escalier)

...s one of the colors there are shadow casters who trick us about happiness we are taught to wish for things to make us happy we are not taught to dream for happiness itself we can't buy hap...

7. Transformation...
(LIFE/Esprit d\'escalier)

...coming free only to become something else. It's also about letting go... to unfurl one's fingers from the things we love. In life, this never happens how you imagine - we hope the years pass bef...

8. Garden of Love
(LIFE/Esprit d\'escalier)

None of my ramblings on coffee or food today - instead, a poem by British born Kathleen Raine and intriguing paintings by Luke Chueh.  I know, i'm such an odd sap. This month has brought much to

9. Czeslaw Milosz
(ART/BOOKS/Poetry)

Love means to learn to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many. And whoever sees that way heals his heart, Without knowing it, from various i

10. Abraham-Hicks
(Newsflashes/Newsflash)

... Source Energy is answering -- and all you need to do is be in the place of allowing. Once you get those things lined up and you've had an opportunity to practice them, here and there, everything ma...

11. Two Girls and a Lobster
(EAT/DRINK/Flavor Spot)

Some of the best things in life aren't free. Some of the best things in life require driving through the arm-pit of Hell-Ay to the San Gabriel valley, into the heart of the nations largest Asian Ame

12. Yashica Mat 124
(LIFE/Wildly Facinating)

Sweet isn't she?! This Yashica Mat is a twin-lens reflex camera made from 1968-1970, manufactured in Japan. I scored this gorgeous old camera w/lenses, filters and capro off ebay last month.

13. Abraham-Hicks
(Newsflashes/Newsflash)

Your Inner Being likes to skip and laugh and think about things; your Inner Being likes to offer compliments and feel appreciation and contemplate something that is not fully understood and then fee

14. Coffee Roasting
(EAT/DRINK/Foodie Research)

...ch of green beans from Sweet Marias. Anyone who knows me knows that i live to learn and love to try new things all in the name of research and self-sufficiency. I mean why buy it when i can make it...

15. Snow
(ART/BOOKS/Poetry)

..., Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The drunkenness of things being various. And the fire flames with a bubbling sound for world Is more spit...