We marched in yesterday’s Fourth of July parade in Amherst, NH joining several dozen folks in green t-shirts on behalf of the environment.  Behind us was the Topsy Turvy Bus.  Have you had an opportunity to see it?
Making it’s way across the United States this summer the bus is drawing crowds and making a [...]

Inspiration House climbed it for the climate last Saturday, July 14!  We hiked Crotched Mountain, a kindly mountain with three peaks and many open vistas in southern New Hampshire, as part of a Step It Up 2007 activity to create awareness of the need to reduce our carbon emissions.  Most of the hikers were [...]

by Carol Hohle
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert is a delightful, attention grabbing read that let me travel through Italy, India and Indonesia in the span of a weekend all from the comfort of my backyard lawn chair!  Gilbert’s writing style is amusing, witty and intelligent.  And, I marvel at her outgoing spirit.
This memoir/travelogue [...]

me and all my friends we’re all misunderstood. they say we stand for nothing and
there’s no way we ever could. now we see everything that’s going wrong with the world and those who lead it. we just feel like we don’t have the means to rise above and beat it. so we keep waiting waiting on the world to change. we keep on waiting, waiting on the world to change …

And a merchant said, Speak to us of Buying and Selling. And he answered and said: To you the earth yields her fruit, and you shall not want if you but know how to fill your hands.

They came and went so quickly … or so it seemed to me. A pair of House Wrens nested in the birdhouse we put up in our backyard. The male was busy working on the nest some weeks back. And, when the female approved of the site they completed the nest making their temporary home not six feet away from a hammock and lounge chairs on the upper bank in my backyard. When the chicks hatched the parents went into overdrive shuttling non-stop meals all day long to the ever hungry children. …