(updated version with a link that works!) Every year for Christmas, Rick and I each get a gift from our friend, Herb Sundvall. The gift is a chapbook of poetry called Crow Tracks. Crow Tracks is filled with Herb's poems. In the latest volume of Crow Tracks, I fell in [...]
Today, as I watched the Presidential Inauguration, I was moved beyond measure when I heard Richard Blanco read his inaugural poem, "One Today." I have posted the poem here, words that speak to a shared American experience, as well as a shared human experience. I am also posting some photos [...]
What would we do without traditions? This annual tradition is something I anticipate as soon as I hear about the first snowfall in the mountains: cross country skiing with Leslie at Echo Ridge in Chelan, Washington over MLK weekend. Below are some photos from our weekend. You will see that [...]
Pre-Fusion Yoga: sounds like a new kind of yoga (or cuisine, or music), but it’s not. It’s simply the name I am giving to a private yoga session I taught to Jan Dahl just before Christmas. We started out with breathing! Breathing, and more breathing. This may sound mundane, but, [...]
Happy New Year! We got back from Mexico on December 30 and headed to eastern Washington to Cle Elum on December 31st where we rang in the New Year with friends Barbara and Denise at their brand new cabin. The highlight of today was spending time with them and snow [...]