• 2026 - November - Thanksgiving

    What Gratitude Isn’t

    ​ The red tree out my bathroom window that caught me by surprise this morning It became autumn overnight. It was 90 degrees and humid for months on end. Then one Saturday night, it plunged into the 40’s and 30’s with a high of 60 the next day and but for one unseasonably warm day we haven’t looked back. Autumn. October, November. The family, grateful, harvesting sort of season. What worked, what didn’t. Make sure you count your blessings. ​ BUT ensure they are really blessings & not something that you feel you have to be grateful for. ​ The…

  • 2026 - Community - Doing Things Differently - October

    Loneliness

    I feel Loneliness only when surrounded by other people. I love talking one on one with someone – but as more people enter the space – I feel myself disconnecting. Around very large groups of people I feel cut off and alone on the planet. I don’t feel a oneness – like we are all in it together, that people say they feel at large concerts and rallies. I wish I did feel that way. It spirals quickly from loneliness to despair, as if I or anything around me even matters. Loneliness, as currently termed, defined and understood, is actually…

  • 2026 - Monthly Newsletters - October

    It’s all about stories

    All the little paths we can take with our stories (Tree between Well House and Sunset House @ Well of Mercy Hamptonville, NC) When we think about it (and I try hard not to): Everything we do is because someone, somewhere thought it was a good idea. And told a good enough story to someone else to have them buy in. And then to another person and then another person. Soon that other person is us and we think it's a good idea. Soon those who bought in - including us - are all telling the same...