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Celebration

Vermont

October 26, 2015, by No comments yet
Maples in Late Autumn. Northeast Kingdom,Vermont

Things have changed.

I’ve been quiet for awhile.

We are not in Spain. We are not in Oregon. We came to Vermont at the end of Winter in March of last year, starting in the Northeast Kingdom, followed by a little over 6 months in the Southern part of the state. Now we returned to the NEK so that our daughter could attend an exceptional school locally and we could live and work among friends. This is the part of Vermont that we first fell in love with and where we are making our home. When we left the states bound for the SE of England to study Biodynamic Agriculture more than 10 years ago this is not where we dreamed the path would take us. I am so happy that it did. Read more →

Roller Coaster Arms

June 21, 2013, by 1 comment

For most of my life I held onto a gripping fear of heights. If there was the slightest hint of an edge from which I could fall (to my certain painful death no doubt) vertigo would take over as a full surge of adrenaline brought on tears and stole my legs from under me. My rational mind tried valiantly to talk my irrational self into all the logical strategies to compensate for and minimize this fear. The result of those efforts was my rational mind considering that irrational self had some very good arguments why being so afraid was not so irrational after all.  Being afraid kept me safe. I happily stayed on terra firma with feet planted, no edges in sight. Looking up at all the crazy folks who dared risk certain painful death.

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Because I Can – Walking the Camino

May 23, 2013, by 9 comments

I’ve dropped hints and slipped it into conversations for some time now. In private its been a more openly celebrated ambition. At first I only dared to share the dream with a small intimate circle of support, until at last this past Sunday I tweeted and posted on my Facebook page:

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