In addition to all the excitement of seeing the visiting Snowy Owls on the beach both yesterday and today, we had our annual Winter Solstice Hatha Yoga Retreat at Ocean Shores this weekend. We had so much fun! Winter can be exhilarating and invigorating here at the coast! I will [...]
We are having an outstanding weekend here at Ocean Shores! This is our annual Winter Solstice Hatha Yoga Retreat. As with every retreat, I seem to go go go non stop until the group arrives. And then once the retreat begins, I immerse myself in this singular experience of being [...]
Photo of the day: My nephew, John, just sent me this photo he took of his brother, Vince, in Grotte, Sicily with my aunt, Zia Maria. Zia Maria is one of my mom's older sisters! She is absolutely amazing at 93 years old. She is sturdy, feisty, fiercely independent, and [...]
Tomas Transtromer, in his collected poem, The Great Enigma, writes: "My maternal grandfather, Carl Helmer Westerberg, was born in 1860. He was a ship's pilot and a very good friend of mine, seventy-one years older than myself. Oddly enough, the same difference in age existed between him and his own [...]
On Thursday morning we left for Harrison Hot Springs Hotel and Spa at Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, Canada. It's about a 3 hour drive from Seattle, so it is easy to forget we are going to another country. Just as we were leaving, after many farewells and [...]