If ever an opportunity arises to learn from Jeremy, grab it in your arms and make a home for it in your heart.  Jeremy, I’m grateful for your teachings.

I was recently invited to spend an afternoon with some fine feathered friends. You can see the photos here.

Well done Jonathan!

So for fun I asked on facebook… and found out something about a friend and colleague that I did not know before. This is someone I have worked with for years. My friend said: at 3!!…well, at his age and with a small percentage of his enthusiasm, I was probably making like I was sitting on the back of a horse as the Lone Ranger road off into the sunset on Silver!…”Hi-yo, Silver, away!” In hindsight I could totally see it…

Wish I could remember what I was like at 3. If you remember, post a comment please.

Here’s a link to a radio interview with Dana Ullman.  I promise you will learn something about health and healing. 

If you did not come here through the home page, here’s the link to read my Haiku.

I love using the macro lens on my digital SLR camera (both gifts from my husband).

Here is a photo I took in July 2009;  Visitors piled on a single leaf of my lemon tree in my garden.  The green translucent alien-looking creatures were maybe 3 millimeters in length and there were hundreds of them.  I feared for the tree but chose to do nothing except photograph them.  The next day the only trace that they had been there were the photos I took. 

Looking at this picture today, I remembered watching a movie (Microcosmos) with my kids when they were little.  I think it came out in ’96 – Around the time I decided to embark on my new life as a homeopath.  If you have small children (or if you just have the heart and sense of wonder of a child) I highly recommend an evening viewing in your living room.

The following is a definition of macrocosm from Wikipedia: “Macrocosm and microcosm is an ancient Greek neoPlatonic schema of seeing the same patterns reproduced in all levels of the cosmos, from the largest scale (macrocosm or universe-level) all the way down to the smallest scale (microcosm or sub-sub-atomic or even metaphysical-level). In the system the mid-point is Man, who summarizes the cosmos”

The phrase repeating in my head as I write this is from William Blake and goes something like this “to see the world in a grain of sand…”  You can read the whole poem on the internet here.

What is this fascination with capturing my garden and the world around me in it’s finest details?  Is it a mirror to the path I walk getting to know myself at every level? I have observed that sometimes that which becomes my subject shies away and tries to retreat from being looked at so intimately.  Sometimes however, they look me straight in the lens.

More recently, I’ve been working with natural stones cut into heart shapes.  I use them in making my jewlery.  I love working with the stones and appreciate them as a reminder that our hearts tell a story.  The natural colors, inclusions, fractures and imperfections are part of the stone’s history, and how it formed in it’s environment.  These I believe mirror the human journey and heart. 

Broken Open

When I came across the druzy of this amazonite heart pendant with it’s brilliant crystals, I thought, that even hearts of stone can be broken open.

And, what seems solid on first examination, in the right light. reveals a hidden beauty to be captured in glimpses.

Eileen is an awesome photographer and healer among many other roles she fills this lifetime.  Her website is www.medicinegarden.com

I am honored to have her beleive in me.