1. Santorini
(LIFE/Latest)

...y discuss European politics, divulge interesting details about the scenery, and order her favorite dessert without skipping a beat. Then there's Themi, the caretaker and master food-ordered. Nothing ...

2. Poem for today
(ART/BOOKS/Poetry)

...ugh to read the full text. SLICES OF TOAST (For Ian Jack)   Lying in bed in the dark without heating. December 3rd and feeling warm, almost too warm, I hear the window give...

3. Abraham-Hicks
(Newsflashes/Quotes)

...nything. Whatever you have the ability to conceive, this Universe has the ability to provide. Anything, without exception. So your work is on the conjuring of the idea, period. The Universe has th...

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

...rtain dimension, armed with a credit card and weakened by target marketing. Believe me, you are better off without any of it. So here's to selling cake and ice cream to rebels, activists, and the pass...

5. Czeslaw Milosz
(ART/BOOKS/Poetry)

... at distant things For you are only one thing among many. And whoever sees that way heals his heart, Without knowing it, from various ills - A bird and a tree say to him: Friend. Then he wan...

6. Sutta Nipata I, 8
(Newsflashes/Newsflash)

...d will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: Above, below, & all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate. ...

7. Coffee Roasting, Part II
(EAT/DRINK/Foodie Research)

...g up 1/2 lb of Tanzania NgoroNgoro Covent beans (yes, produced by Nuns, yes really) - hopefully this time without flinging it all over my deck . First crack at 10.5 minutes 2nd crack 15 minutes...

8. To Have Without Holding
(ART/BOOKS/Poetry)

... fill us back up before namaste our teacher shared this poem by Marge Piercy.   To Have Without Holding Marge Piercy Learning to love differently is hard, love with the h...