I spent the majority of the weekend outdoors hiking, enjoying the sunshine. On Saturday morning, I hiked over to Tennessee Valley beach from home. I saw almost nobody until I got close to the parking lot, then was hit with the noise of crowds of people. While the parking lot was very full, I’m guessing…

This week I’ve been back in San Rafael looking after Rosco, enjoying our wanders through the neighborhood. Even though it’s been only a couple of weeks since I was last here, everything is blooming like crazy because the weather is warming up. One morning I went for a walk that took me up into the…

This week I checked out the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. I went specifically to see the Making Their Mark exhibit of contemporary women artists. It was impressive, I loved that much of the art pieces were huge in scale. I feel like that isn’t often the kind of art from women artists  you…

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…

I realize it’s been over a week since I last posted. Time for a catch up! Rebekah and I got together quite a few times to talk about their upcoming board retreat and other matters. She had me make a couple of videos to use at that retreat as a way to get board members…