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“Now isn’t a time to look back or plan ahead. It’s time to just be present. The present is timeless. Being in the moment, just being here with what is, is ageless, eternal.” ~ Baba Ram Dass

“We only have One Water, One Air, One Mother Earth.”
~ Corbin Harney, Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader, 1920-2007

More favorite quotes:

“It`s not the load that breaks you down, it`s the way you carry it”
~ Lena Horne, 1917-2010

“Life’s most persistent and urgent questions is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”
~Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. 
~ U. Thant (1909-1974)

“In our society, growing food yourself has become the most radical of acts. It is truly the only effective protest, one that can-and will-overturn the corporate powers that be. By the process of directly working in harmony with nature, we do the one thing most essential to change the world-we change ourselves!”
~ Jules Dervaes Jr. (1947-2016) (Founder of Urban Homestead)

Our Favs

Enjoy exploring our favorite places – through travel and reading, on and off line!

Books

Mushrooms Demystified, by David Arora

All That the Rain Promises and More, by David Arora – a wild mushroom field guide. Includes detailed descriptions of more than 200 edible and poisonous mushroom species, as well as recipes, stories, and information on uses of various species such as for dying hair and clothing or playing games. 

Braiding Sweetgrass, by Potawatomi professor Robin Wall Kimmerer – a nonfiction book about the role of Indigenous knowledge as an alternative or complementary approach to Western mainstream scientific methodologies.