My Blog
Late Spring 2025
My husband and I are on vacation experiencing wine tasting in Avignon. Mistral winds blow cold and fallout from the actions of seemingly heartless leaders across the world swirl around us and within us. What counsel will help us now? Rilke, one of the greatest poets...
From the Beginning
Written by Christina Watkins. Last month we were on vacation in Nayarit, Mexico. The photo which my husband, David, took of this Snowy Egret reminds me of the holiness of the lives and homes of everyone. He stays very still on his golden slippers until he sees food...
After Christmas
This year, twice in the week before Christmas, our outdoor Christmas lights, which are set to go on at dusk, flashed on before ten in the morning and stayed on all day. It has been a dark, damp and cool December. The tension of this time broke as the days of Christmas...
Up From the Deep
Last week, I saw a video on PBS, on the program Nature. It is also on YouTube and is named Befriending a Sperm Whale. We enter the story of Patrick Dykstra, a videographer, and a female sperm whale. We see them hanging vertically, face to face, in deep water. Patrick...
Memories Past, Present and Future
A new year begins in September for many children and for all of us who love children and remember our own and our children’s September energy. There is movement coming. In Victoria, as I look over the Straits of Juan de Fuca towards the Olympic mountains in Washington...
Holy Week into Easter
Spring arrived this week in Victoria where we live. It seems late because the cold grey winter months have dragged on. In fact, it is cooler and raining again today. Spring’s arrival seems sudden, but bright green foliage and pink branches carrying the running sap...