Welcome to my blog, a quasi-weekly column on topics and issues that have my attention, or that are intended to inform or inspire--including the following reminder:
"Realize why you're here, and be about it!"
City boots vs. country boots 10/28/2008
City boots vs. country boots
These are my favorite boots at home in Santa Barbara.I like the way they look, plus they’re comfortable for walking and their smooth soles are great for dancing.
They’re not the kind of cowboy boots bonafide cowgirls wear around horses though.
It’s easy to get overwhelmed with all the disaster scenarios being described on the nightly news, reinforcing the knowledge that we face some very real national and global challenges.
So it is particularly refreshing to consider the prognosis of the folks at the Berkana Institute (www.berkana.org).Berkana calls the illustration at left a depiction of their “emergence theory.”
Can you imagine what would happen if a female Democratic candidate for national public office left a special needs child at home to fulfill her political ambitions? The outroar from conservatives? The cries of crimes against the very institution of motherhood?
Water is one of the things people are willing to fight over in rural Washington.(They actually fight about it all over the world, but most of us are removed from the fray.)
Rural Washington says NO to the Wall Street bailout; George Soros explains what it means
The Wall Street bailout got a resounding NO from rural Washington. Although I doubt that most of my Washington neighbors understood that it wasn’t really Wall Street they were bailing out—
Every time Micheal and I come to work on our property in Washington I get lessons in country living.I’m quite sure I’m entertainment for our rural neighbors and the good townspeople of Twisp, the nearest community.
Three years ago, my husband and I bought 40 acres in north central Washington’s Methow Valley.Driven from my native California by the spectacular price of real estate, we’d taken two location-hunting expeditions north and east in search of other residential possibilities.
City boots vs. country boots
A little good news
Can you imagine...
The last debate 
Country life and water
Country life
Forty acres