Theresa Wanders!

Started my weekend with a beautiful hike on the Allen Trail in Kentfield with Heather. After some grey days we had a gorgeous morning and saw beautiful waterfalls and trees covered in moss and ferns. Except for locals walking their dogs or out for a run it was pretty quiet. This was a new trail…

Oh it’s been a good week. I spent three days house and dog sitting sweet little Rosco in San Rafael. We got out for walks around the neighborhood and he snuggled on my lap at night. I spent time doing art, reading, preparing for upcoming JNE interviews and doing some work for my friend’s nonprofit.…

What I have been doing since I got back from Green Gulch? On Thursday I did not go anywhere or do much of anything because I was pretty tired after my two weeks as a guest student. It was nice to just have time to reacclimatize. On Friday I did some work then Emmy and…

It’s been a long time since I posted. I got back from 2 weeks at Green Gulch, a local Zen center, on Wednesday but haven’t been able to put together anything about it until today. I figured it was easiest to start with the schedule and details about my time there would emerge, so here…

I’ve been settling back in the last couple of days. I walked to Sausalito then went kayaking with my sister one day. Been working on my gap year guide and walking in the neighborhood – one day I checked out the local free little libraries and saw several had notes in them asking people to…

My last day at TAC was a quiet one. I walked the labyrinth once in the morning and again in the afternoon, the snow was rapidly melting, and every time I got out there, I could see more and more of the stones. I managed to walk most of the way up TAC Hill, the…