Here's my little Place and Challah Pictures

Here is my new home (for now) in Tucson. I also have a lovely friend in Patagonia that I'm staying with too!
Fun waking up and heading out to Patagonia from Tucson instead of the other way around. So I get 2 homes.

Mr Tim is settling in to life up north, Everyone is thrilled to have him!

Made Challah this morning for Shabbat with Marcela a friend I made when I worked at the center.
She is also one of the ladies that I want on the Bali trip with last year.

Love yah! (Hope all is well eh!)

We Moved! I moved somewhere Tim moved somewhere (old house pictures 1st)

Wow, amazing that it's been since February that I last posted! I kept thinking to do it..
So here we are... Start of a whole new cycle, I'm now living in Tucson and Patagonia,
looking at possibly doing some school soon, will keep you posted as things unfold...
We moved yesterday morning and then i dropped Tim off at the airport,
he's going to live, visit and work up in New York state for a while.
He missed his parents and has been offered jobs all in that area.
Me, I want to do a few more things here in AZ before moving, so we are happily doing
different things for now, yes we are fine ;0)
My first time living on my own in a few years! Takes me back to when I was traveling a lot

Posted are pictures of our old house (we never had pictures before)

xox M

Weekend Of Fun!

Hi all, here's a recap of our adventure to go attend an event with the Dalai Lama

We headed out Thursday to Santa Monica, we slept at a Motel 6 nearby. On
Friday we passed by the Mahasukha Center in Culver City (curious if anything was
happening while we were in town. Then we ate at Rawvelution in Santa Monica
YUM!!!
(still no camera... so no pics)

We had (raw) nachos, salad, and pizza mmmm
then for dessert
Reishi tea and chocolate desserts, nice to have a medicinal tea with dessert (balances all the sugar)
Next
Checked out Golden Bridge Center (they offer sooo many programs)
it was a really nice place, and they had a shop with all sorts of things to buy (books, yoga props, clothes etc..)
(I picked up two candles to use for that evening)
Next
Eerwon health food store (if you've been there I need not say more!!) if you've never been there
it's awsome, health tonic bar, any and all raw foods and raw treats imaginable! we got Dr. Cows cashew algae cheese
cheesy nori crackers, kombucha, a health tonic tea (we knew we'd be back Sunday so didn't need to go overboard)
Next
We drove south to Enscondido to visit and stay with Susan and Philip for the rest of the trip.
They have a great ground floor apartment with a cute patio and they are near an awsome nature park were you can get
lost for hours. On my trip out there in December Susan and I (and their dog Shiva) food a great spot under some trees
near a spring and meditated for a nice long time (it was bliss)

On Saturday we all headed to self Realization Fellowship, (you know the book The Autobiography of a Yogi?)
In Encinitas, they have a realy beautiful garden, the energy is so strong after a quick pause to meditate for 5 minutes
I felt like I could sit there for hours!!
Next
Nearby there was a raw restarnt called the Greenery, it was great, we order (for all 4 of us)
Spicy Grapefruit juice
Ceasar salad
spinach salad
House garden salad
Cheese sandwich
Burger
Pizza
Cheesecake

They were all realy good. So much respect for people running raw restaurants, it's such a blessing to be able
to have such great food and not have to do any work!

On Sunday we stopped at Eerwon again we all loaded up on treats and had a picknick
Fresh Sunflower sprouts (we bought from the Greenery the night before)
Dr Cow cheeses
Crackers
Kombuchas
Yummy health tonic teas
Sacred Heart Chocolates
And Tim and I picked up a bunch of herbs like Shilajit
Next
we headed to Gibson Amphitheater, Universal City, in Hollywood to see the Dalai Lama, it was a trip to walk through
Universal City to see him...
It was an event for Vulnerable Children International, we even got a performance from Sheryl Crow before he came on stage!
He was great, we all loved his energy. We really had wanted to go just to be in his energy and feel what that's like,
he was sweet, gentle and kind, also quite funny. He sat on a chair crossed legged and spoke about compassion and
stregthening your inner peace (much like Gabriel) and then anweared some pre choosen questions, addressing the issue
of what's been going on in Tibet with the Chineese for the last 50 years. Also how to help children have more spiritual lives.
He suggested spending more time with them and helping to develop morals. We had an excellent time and are grateful to
have seen him as he is getting older now.

We headed back home that evening so we would be back in time to facilitate and teach the Conscious Eating program,
this is the biggest group we have had 31 people and it's been really nice!

We stopped 1/2 way home to get some sleep at a Motel and then arrive back home a few hours before class.

xoxoxox

February

Almost Valentines Day!

What does that mean to you??

How can you make sure to give yourself and others the

BEST Valentines day EVER

Full of love, appreciation, peace, contentment

What will it take ?

What little thing can you do for yourself whether you have a special Valentine or not?

How can you experience more love on this loving day AND choose to keep feeling

loved, loving and lovable ??

xoxox

My wish for you this Valentines Day is to feel my love for you!!! and stack as much extra love on top of that as you can stand xoxxoxooxxo

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Hansel and Regrettal All that sugar! by SARA LEVINE

One day the old witch hobbled out of her gingerbread house and found a boy and girl standing at the lollipop gate, staring at the colored icing and the peppermint candies studding the window shutters. Hungry and dirty, they’d no doubt been wandering in the woods for days. Good, the witch thought, who was half-starved herself. She gave them a moment to take in her appearance: the red eyes, the bulbous nose, the hump. The girl shrunk a little. The boy’s attention was fixed on the house.

"What's it made of?" he asked.

"Sugar and spice and everything nice," she answered.

"Real sugar?" the girl replied. "Or corn syrup?"

"Children, you must be starving! Break off a piece of the window!"

But the children stood with their hands in their pockets.

"Pry a shingle from the roof," she said. "Do you like marzipan?"

They shook their heads. They'd never tried it.

"Poor children! Come in, come in."

She sat them down at her table and offered them pancakes, caramel apples, jelly doughnuts. They wouldn't touch any of it. This one was bad for the heart, they explained; that was packed with calories; those looked good but weren't what their stepmother called "growing food."

"Do you eat this food yourself, Old Mother?" Gretel asked, her forehead creased with worry, as the witch brought out a nutmeg maple cream pie.

"Not very much," she answered, thinking of the tender morsels children made. "But I make sweets for the children who pass through the forest."

"They must have terrible teeth," Hansel said.

Prig! thought the witch. Probably their muscles had been subjected to long, vigorous exercise, and their meat would be stringy and tough.

"My little ones, you've got to eat something."

The children looked doubtfully around the cottage. "Do you have any purslane?" Hansel asked at last.

Oh, to hell with fattening them. She'd eat them as they were. You take what comes to you; you appreciate; you don't complain.

"Children, go and sit on the bread paddle," she said, "and tell me if the oven feels hot enough to put the bread in."

They looked at her warily. "We never eat white flour," the girl said. "It has a higher glycemic index…"

"All I've offered, and you won't help me with one little chore?" the witch said.

"But we don't know a thing about ovens," Gretel said. "When you heat food over 116 degrees, you lose the nutrient value."

"Actually," Hansel said, "enzymes degrade at a temperature of 106 degrees. That's why Stepmother prefers raw food."

The witch rolled her eyes up to the meringue-covered ceiling. These awful, difficult children! She could bake them for an hour, and they’d still be tough.

"Listen," she said, "if you round the house and head west you will come to a patch of blueberry bushes you can eat from."

The children stood, their faces flooded with relief. They thanked the old woman and bounded out the cottage door.

Goodbye, tainted meat, the witch thought. Only after she closed her graham cracker door did she remember the ogre. His house was a mile from the berry patch, and he loved nothing more than to gobble up wandering children. He'd been a good neighbor these last three or four hundred years. Should she warn him about the meat? The witch had hobbled as far as the gumdrop doormat when she stopped herself. Probably she was over-reacting.

Almost New Year!

Hi!!

Happy New Year Goal setting!

Almost 2010 THE best year yet!!!

xoxoxo

Snow Day

Well we usually get 1 day of snow a year ;0)
Today we woke up to snow !!!
It melted by midday, ah! that was fun!!

Oh chocolate I'm glad your back (almost 4 months with no chocolate!)
Got some chocolate paste, yum, already had it as hot chocolate
also in dates with almond butter
and with banana slices and cashews
will plot more naughty chocolate goodness !!!
(need some workable sweetener for proper chocolates)

Really love this one:

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead