Good morning lovely friends:

The bright Colorado sun is shining through our bedroom window as I visit with you reclining in bed….my body is speaking to me (more like yelling at me!) and I am listening. I believe this is a delayed reaction to our labor-intensive move, the death of my sister, and all the emotions that go along with these life events. The altitude here also requires some adjustment….I’ve noticed this on my daily walks and both my daughters confirm that it takes awhile to get used to.

But…oh those daily walks! Although they are shorter for now, the backdrop of the Rocky Mountains as I walk around our new neighborhood just fills me with awe and brings me to tears. What a blessing that I get to live here for the last chapter in my journey! Being born and raised and living 65+ years on the East Coast of the U.S. I am so enamored with the West and all the wonders to behold here!
Not long ago there was an article on this site about Earth Altars. My intention is to create an earth altar in memory of my sister, using the gifts that are so unique to this part of the country. We brought a large piece of the trunk of my beloved sugar maple, Minshi, with us to Colorado and I will build my altar there this spring.

I do miss our quirky little farmhouse and the cows and horses and farmland but mostly I am grateful for the years we had there and that we were so clearly guided to leave when we did. I’ve not even the slightest doubt that we are here for such a time as this. I’m grateful for my Great Shepherd’s “rod and staff”…they are a comfort to me.

~Wishing you all a day filled with wonder and awe at our Mother Earth’s amazing gifts. Om Shanti friends ♥

Good morning my lovely friends

I missed being here with you last Tuesday as we made our way across the country. We were somewhere in the mid-west on that day and we arrived, after a harrowing 2,000 mile journey, safe and sound to our new home in Colorado. The U.S. decided to have the most frigid, icy, snow-filled week just as we were traveling…but the angels surrounded us on our way and I was mindful of the God-hugs. Thank you for your prayers my friends.

It’s been a roller coaster of emotions. So grateful but, fear and anxiety were there, as well as a deep well of grief as my sister died after a long illness days before we left. My husband and I packed and loaded the trailer ourselves, and Mother Nature decided to dump a load of snow on us in the middle of this process. So, since we had already sold our tractor and snow plow, we had to shovel the old fashioned way…..several times! It was a lot of physical labor for our 65+ year old bodies! But I chose to be grateful for the distraction as it provided an outlet for my grief.

So, my friends, so much joy that we are living here in this beautiful landscape….mountains have replaced our beloved farmland. But most of all that we are together as a family once again. Our younger daughter is living with us in our full furnished rental for now, and our older daughter and her husband are just 10 minutes away. I am overwhelmed with gratitude.

And so grateful to be here once again with all of you on this Tuesday. As always, my thoughts turn to our dear Ursula who I believe was one of the angels guiding and protecting us on our journey. 😇

~Om Shanti friends ♥

Lovely friends

It is a gift to be here with you this morning. We have had quite the snow storm here in our NJ farmland. I’m grateful for the cozy fire next to me and the warmth of our quirky little farmhouse on such a blustery cold day. I am grateful to be grateful for the respite from our labors. I am so tempted to be frustrated that we cannot make any progress right now. We have miles to go before we sleep. But our 65+ year old bodies are aching all over and I’m learning once again to let go and let God….this is a constant lesson in my life as I recognize and repent of my control-freak ways!
“We have our plans and God laughs” is one of my favorite sayings.😊 It has been true all my life and I am learning to laugh too!

Dearest Ursula….grateful for the gift of our friendship across the miles which now endures among the stars.
~Have a blessed day my dear friends ♥

Good morning lovely friends. It is a grace to be here with you this Tuesday morning. As always, my thoughts turn to our dear Ursula and her family.

I visit here daily and it occurs to me that our community is changing and growing with new members who provide us with their own unique gifts they so generously share. And having been around awhile, I am reflecting on some of my “old” friends as well….I won’t mention names because my brain is overloaded these days and I’m afraid I’ll forget someone. But you know who you are! 🥰

I wonder how our friends from the “old days” who have come and gone are doing on their journeys? Manda, Debbie, Aine, Henry, Michelle, Nancy….many more. You are missed. Thank you for the gifts you brought to this sacred community.

Change can be hard and scary sometimes. But can also be filled with wonder, joy, and everyday miracles. So many big life changes going on in my life right now. My heart’s desire is to live through these changes with faith, trust, and hope. I am exhausted physically and emotionally but I seek each day to do “small things with great love” as Mother Teresa as said.
In that spirit, I share this poem with all of you…may it be a blessing.
~With grateful love ♥

“Already my gaze is upon the hill, the sunny one,
at the end of the path which I’ve only just begun.
So we are grasped, by that which we could not grasp,
at such great distance, so fully manifest—

and it changes us, even when we do not reach it,
into something that, hardly sensing it, we already are;
a sign appears, echoing our own sign . . .
But what we sense is the wind against us.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

Good morning lovely friends:
So grateful to be here with you this Tuesday morning.

It made me smile to see the Earth Altars that were shared here. I forwarded the article from this site to my brother because together we are trying the navigate the grief of our older sister’s end of life journey. She has been very ill for a very long time and has just this week been put on hospice care. He and I are both far away from her and her family and with the current Covid crisis are not able to be there with her as her journey is coming to an end. How to honor her and have our own ceremony that will give us comfort and help us to say goodbye from afar? And then the gift of Earth Altars appeared and my heart just filled with gratitude.

My brother and I are both nature lovers and I often shared with our sister over the years how connecting to the earth has been such a blessing in my life. I suggested to my brother that as a healing ritual and in honor of our sister that we each make our own Earth Altar and send each other a picture. A miracle of sorts, and as often happens on this sacred website, was offered at just the right time

I am eternally grateful to have “found” this site (more accurately it found me!) and all the ways it has blessed me over the years. And most especially….I am grateful for all of you in this sacred community.

~Have a blessed day my friends and thank you for your generosity of heart in sharing. ♥

Cara Anna….thank you for your kind words and for sharing your own journey on the loss of your papa with me. You have beautifully described the paradox that I was experiencing…we are spirit-sisters in this my friend.

Manda is actually from Flagstaff in Northern Arizona, which is very similar in landscape to Colorado! It’s about 10 hours south of where we are in Colorado. I wonder how our sweet Manda is doing….I miss her!

I am so happy and grateful that you are still here mio amica! Sending you my love and blessings ♥♥♥♥