It is wonderful to be outside. I begin to believe that living in houses really wasn’t such a good idea. It is so spacious, so open, so unguarded to just be out in the world where trees are, where birds are, where the sky is. Working in my yard today was such a pleasure. I [...]

I worked in the garden yesterday. For about three hours I dug in the dirt, planted flowers, arranged rocks, spread wood chips. I had my gloves on at first but I soon took them off. They made my hands uncomfortable, hot and sweaty. I dug in the moist, rich, heavy soil with my bare hands, [...]

They do, right? Everybody knows that, just like everyone knows that dogs love bones. I always fed my cats with milk back in Poland. That is what they eat, it’s a simple fact. I just watched an old Polish TV show where a boy gave his cat a bowl of milk for breakfast and … [...]

Emu was a monkey. She lived on a small island with about a hundred of her kind. Barely visible on the horizon were other islands with more monkeys. She never saw them, nor did they ever see her. But they were of the same species and shared similar lives and behaviors. Of course, it was [...]

I was holding space this weekend for the exploration of poverty and abundance. In a beautiful retreat center nestled in the hills of Montecito, with a view on gorgeous, sprawling mansions on the slopes below, with the ocean beyond, with mountains reaching up to the sky, I learned that 45% of the population of Los [...]