August 4, 2015 – Moments of ecstasy

August 4, 2015 – Moments of ecstasy

Lake Tahoe, Sugar Pine Beach [I’m still on vacation with Joe and Bo in Tahoe. I’ll resume recording next week.] It’s early morning – a time of day that I’m meant for. We are up in Lake Tahoe for our annual vacation with Anne and Gary, Joe’s sister and brother-in-law,...
BJ First Tahoe Swim

BJ First Tahoe Swim

I had drawn this painting of our dog BJ a couple of weeks before he died. While I was drawing it, I had the thought that it would be interesting to paint it while he was alive, as I had painted our previous dog, Bud, after he’d died. Then we lost BJ to an awful...
July 28, 2015 – Our coming out party

July 28, 2015 – Our coming out party

Read this post: [I’m on vacation with Joe and Bo in Tahoe. As I write this, I’m sitting on the deck facing the sunrise and it’s just beautiful! I want to go on our morning hike, so there’s no recording today! I’ll resume when I’m back the second week of August.] On...
July 21, 2015 – I couldn’t have dreamed

July 21, 2015 – I couldn’t have dreamed

This December it will have been eight years since my spiritual God Mother, Donna and I went to a day-long event at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, being given by the Buddhist meditation teacher Sylvia Boorstein and Sister Mary Neill – two spiritual teachers from...
July 14, 2015 – Starting with Surrender

July 14, 2015 – Starting with Surrender

Making a commitment to write every week has taken a leap of faith. I so feared that I’d peter out, leaving my abandoned online journal as evidence for all the world to see that I’m not able to stick with things. And, I keep worrying I’ll run out of things to write...