Fly into Boston Monday am, from Logan take water taxi to Provincetown fast ferry, to be with close family. Should be a fabulous time, although probably too early for wild blueberries, or rosehips this year. Who knows what we'll find though, possibly wild plums? Will be back July 1st. Then just five days before Willie Nelson!!

ok, since it has been almost a full year since i posted, I am posting now. RawSpirit Festival coming up in October. Much sooner, Oregon Country Fair, yeah! Richard Hemsley and the Sun Kitchen will be there, and some of us raw vegan-friendly types will be camped at Darling's Reunion. That will be amazing. Also going to catch Willie Nelson, July 6th at Cuthbert in Eugene!! Will head to Terwilliger later that night or the next day.

Magical day. Slept in late, then got my things together and started driving out to Snoqualmie pass for one last snowboarding attempt. It was raining fairly heavily on the way out, and then the clouds began to part and the sun was creating amazing magical light shows, teasingly revealing the mountains in their beauteous splendour.

Arrived at Alpental, and ended up taking a private lesson, snowboarding...and...I got it!! I can actually snowboard now. We went up the beginners lift three times at least, and just had a blast. My instructor, Tristan, was excellent, helpful and friendly. What a rush! My last experience had involved a painful wrist injury and literally months of recuperation. Now I know I can handle any reasonable easy slope, which was all I had set out to do. It really feels good to, and helps one work on balance and self awareness...you really have to control your hips, so I think its good for my dancing too, as well as yoga...encourages "Fierce Pose" for heelside.

All during our snowboarding, the sun, clouds, and sky were presenting the most amazing and complex symphony of colors and moods....JUST the right amount of sun to keep us warm and happy but not blinded, sunburned, or overheated...and get this....at various intervals it was snowing!! Beautiful, tiny flakes, and again, not so often as to be obnoxious, just enough to be refreshing and celebrational....better even than snow on Christmas!

Driving back to Seattle, the ever changing symphony continued, with bouts of rain and sun, and I just felt in tune with the whole world, was just feeling Love for everything and everyone, and so much Gratitude. On the way I was listening to Erinn Williams' CD (had caught her act at Cafe Bella friday night and actually 'won' the CD by guessing one of the song titles), and it was just piercing me to the core, her musicality, amazing and slightly edgy soprano...perfect music with the interplay of sun and clouds.

Stopped in to Ravenna Alehouse on my way to the Tummy Temple, and had one perfect pint of Deschutes IPA....wow, at first I wasn't impressed, but it grew on me exponentially until by the time I reached the final third I was singing its praises to anyone who would listen...a very convivial atmosphere there, too, without being trendy...this might be my current pub fav in Seattle, just for the atmosphere, friendliness, and crowd. You can sit outside, too, which is nice. After that, I did some brief sungazing (yes, the sun favored to come through the clouds during its last 30 minutes before setting) and again had another surge of that ol' Love & Gratitude.

Then went to Tummy Temple and had an amazingly wonderful colonic, Melissa the therapist.

And so much more.

Love.