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I'm leaving behind Blogger and moving to a much more focused and dynamic Blog: Ancient Omnivore - A Personal Tribute to the Sensual Spirit.

There's much up already (including 48 recipes) and I'll soon begin blogging. Please join me there!

The Champagne Perspective

Swiss Chard Forest

Our love transcends speech

As if he wasn't cute enough without a heart-shaped pink mark above his lip...

Inside Out

Robert Waggoner: Beyond the Expectation Effect: Is The Mind an Open...

Robert Waggoner: Beyond the Expectation Effect: Is The Mind an Open...: "Dear Dreamers, In lucid dreaming, we realize that many of the actions or events occur according to our expectation about what seems likely ..."

No more hair dye

Going white: Au Natural

I love you, Sara!

Yesterday evening—sitting outside on the front porch with my husband—was pervaded by Sara's beautiful being. There were an unusual number of birds singing and flying in a joyful display all around us. A large robin chirping in my favorite tulip tree flew to another tree across from me and sang and sang a song I distinctly felt was the earthly echo of Sara assuring me she was all right, more than that. I imagined her inhabiting the birds for the sheer joy of experiencing their physical energy and agility now that she'd finally been freed from her body's prison. We saw a genuine blue bird for the first time, a rare and stunning sight. The sun was setting in such a way it was not so bright you couldn't look toward the west, luminously swathed in diaphanous clouds like the scarves I remember Sara loved to wear. Toward the end a smoldering orange, the solar disc glowed between black branches like an enchanted Halloween pumpkin, and Sara's sense of humor became the very atmosphere as out of nowhere a humming bird appeared, paused directly in front of us, then zoomed westward. We glanced at each other in awe because we've never seen a humming bird up here before. Even my husband, who never met Sara, felt as though she had just said, “Honeee! I'm here! And I'm fine, really!"