.moment by moment.

When you can't control the very largest and most-impending elements of your life, controlling smaller details feels deeply satisfying.  ...

Feeling close.   Today the veil between heaven and earth is feeling thinner than it usually does to me.   The rose in the kitchen is open fu...

Created by my dear new friend Alyse.   This necklace immediately felt very powerful ~ I didn't even try it on for a couple days; I was i...

sadness. .   http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-newman28-2008sep28,0,7543479.story

Sealion sings the hit songs.   In this case, one of his British-accent sing-along faves ~ "Brimful of Asha" by Cornershop. Very na...

Ha!  At my midwife visit yesterday, I told her that I was having trouble visualizing baby's actual position inside my belly.  So she got...

Talking to Woo on the phone, I got teared up.  You, Baby, have already pierced my heart.  Having you inside me just under the surface is lik...

With such happenings and goings-on, Papi Sealion and I almost let a very important milestone go by unacknowledged: A year and a week ago ~ ...

"Want an Obama T-shirt? MoveOn's giving them out if you make a small donation to their young-voter registration program, aimed at r...

Burning Man.  As thousands in the Bay Area, and around the world, pack up the last of their gear, or are even heading that way at this very ...

Yeppers.   (I typed "yuppers" first ~ what do *you* think the spelling of this word should be?) I changed the name of my blog.  I ...

it's August!!!

Some of the "planned" flowers.  Chamomile right before I harvested the flowers. Calendula, butterfly bush, California poppies, and...

These intricate and lovely puff-balls have formed on their wild 6-foot-stalks in our sideyard. Look at them closer:  they have an inviting p...

For years, if ever I had the occasion to give someone a card, I always made it myself.  There have been many last-minute birthday and parent...

I received our first shipment of diapers.  I hope/plan to get as many as possible second hand, but. . I just wanted to have some so I could ...

Photo by World Resources Institute . Watch Al Gore's latest speech. http://www.wecansolveit.org/

Trevor has done it again!  This time on the front page of the New York Times.   http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/dining/22local.html For an...

I feel the Love.

in case you were out of luck when you tried to visit the link in the go, gyrl!  post , it's now corrected.   go read about cool people a...