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January – the month of new beginnings and cherished memories.  It is a fresh start, a new chapter.  A time for reflection and resolution. The first month of our calendar year was named by the Romans after Janus, the god of change, transitions, and beginnings.  Janus had two faces – one looking forward, the other […]

The holidays are upon us and you can feel it in the air in the San Juan Islands. Slowing, surely, the season’s magical spell has taken hold with the remarkable sense of community. Actively emerging in early December, a spirited and creative time of year, it is a precious time when memory and other strands […]

Sacred partnerships arrive in our lives in many forms; sometimes consisting of wood and stone, rather than flesh and bone.  There is a deep peace and contentment to be found in the intimate connections with places as well as people. Every relationship we have – with other people, with our work – reflects in some […]