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Campsite Zen Garden
Today’s image of simplicity. Sometimes I wish I could be this Buddha statue. Sitting quietly, solidly, in an obscure corner, surrounded by flowers, watching my thoughts pass by like clouds…
Finding Simplicity
It’s been a while. I’ve been busy. Busy walking through spanish moss covered plantations, and riding my bike down sandy dirt roads and collecting shells from the various Florida beaches. While the rest of the country was dealing with unusually cold, snowy weather, those who were able sat outside on their lawn chairs in their …
Florida: Catching our breath and staying a while
I never thought much about Florida. The only times I have ever been to Florida was when we took the kids to Disney World and on my way back from the Bahamas a few years ago. After a week of yoga training at the Sivananda Ashram in Nassau, Sam and I spent one day touring …
The Florida Panhandle: An Ice Storm?
Pensacola: Warm beaches, soft sand, gentle sun? Not this time! Who would’ve guessed? We knew we might run into some sort of winter weather at some point on this trip, but in Florida? What a surprise. We stayed in a small campground called simply, Pensacola RV Park. People were nice, bathrooms were clean and cute, …
Today’s image of simplicity
Just fishin’ on a fine Friday in February.
French Quarter, part three: Treme, Bubba Gumps and Waiting for the Bus
Treme: The saddest place in the Big Easy If you haven’t watched HBO lately you wouldn’t know much about this place. It is the oldest African American neighborhood in this country. It was where free, and recently freed slaves were able to buy land and start over. It is where the Southern Civil Rights Movement …
French Quarter, part two: Ironwork, Voodoo, and Tombstones
***** “Iron lace” The thing that caught my eye right away in the French Quarter was all the ironwork. I spent most of my time there looking up at the porch railings, window coverings and various doors and gates. There seems to be an unending variety of styles. Here are a few: There was so …
French Quarter, Part one
Our pattern has been to arrive somewhere, get settled, figure out what we need from the store and go on a GPS-led exploration to find it. Usually this introduction to a new place is pretty frustrating. Our first excursion into New Orleans was just like that: frustrating. Bumpy roads, winding through neighborhoods filled with stoplights, …
on the road to simplicity 