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A Nature Sanctuary

Fran Gallo — Mon, 13 May 2019 00:33:27 +0000

Big news: Rick and I are putting our weekend ocean-side home in Ocean Shores, Washington on the market. Yes, we are selling our weekend home, our sanctuary. We have had beautiful times there, many wonderful yoga retreats, and we will always hold dear the many memories of family and close friends coming out to [...]

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Storm (Hice Storm)

Fran Gallo — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 23:25:47 +0000

It was a stormy blustery weekend at the coast, tempestuous, complete with sideways ice-cold rain and hailstones. Rick’s impromptu spoonerism created a great new word, a noun, an appropriate description of what was falling from the sky: “hice”, a mixture of hail and ice. And the new word stuck just as the hail stones were [...]

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Celebrating Winter Solstice

Fran Gallo — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 01:26:02 +0000

I know we are still days away from the Winter Solstice, but this weekend, we had our annual Winter Solstice Hatha Yoga Retreat, always held the first weekend of December. For me, this time of year is an opportunity to seek light, a time to put up Christmas lights and light candles in the early [...]

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October Splendor in the Garden, at the Coast

Fran Gallo — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 23:42:25 +0000

I went out to the garden to cut flowers for a bouquet. Before stepping outside, I wondered which flowers, if any were to be found, would work for my bouquet because it is so late in the flowering season and most flowers have already done their blooming. It is already the first day of October [...]

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Long Dark Nights of Winter

Fran Gallo — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 22:59:10 +0000

Winter Solstice comes early to Little Renaissance. Every year, we celebrate a Hatha Yoga Winter Solstice Retreat on the first weekend of December at Little Renaissance. We celebrate early before the busy-ness of the holiday season takes hold. Winter Solstice is a time of quiet firelight, a time to nurture dreams. The dark clear [...]

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