Elementals I: What inspires your creativity? — Looking up swirls of deep space indigo strewn in a stardust plume — the joy on your face as you dance beyond trace.

A Recipe for Life’s Beets — Dear Aspiring Sage, It’s time for another kitchen sojourn. Inner Alchemy Will you call your inner Alchemist, and ask to preserve your earthy sweetness spice up your wild completeness? Do you trust your inner Alchemist, to uphold Your heart, just lightly ajar To follow a bright anise star? Will you take this…

A few months out from surgery, chemo, and radiation — I felt broken, lost, un-pieced. But somehow my scars formed the shapes of question marks, all asking, how to build a mosaic of grateful pieces? Although part of me was still frozen in fear. I I was in the garden one…

Seeing what’s unwelcome in your life helps you celebrate ‘Today’ — There was a time when I took traveling and being with family for granted. Now in the age of pandemic, after a brush with cancer, I know it’s a gift. Celebrating the fifth anniversary of a successful surgery for cancer, I took a day trip to Abel Tasman National Park…

A Room with a View II — I live in the future — your future Imagine a community that’s sheltered from the worst effects of Covid-19 — a little bubble of stability in an uncertain world, pumped up by hope, powered by teamwork, rebuilding itself. We all live in bubbles, inside bubbles, in a little blue bubble in space. Re-entering New Zealand’s Covid-free* bubble, citizens…

14 days of managed isolation in New Zealand — More than 50,000 New Zealanders have returned home since the pandemic disrupted life worldwide — me among them. Having quelled Covid-19’s spread in the community, New Zealanders plan to keep it that way. …

Read Part I here. You hate it when your fantasy world gets serious — but a huge plot-hole blows right through your enchanted garden. Only a moment ago, you were plotting the author’s demise. Now the earth rumbles with a roar, as the garden’s foundation crumbles beneath your feet. Mossy…