Last weekend I had a most welcome intermission from the solitude of working on my book and proposal. With her passionately inquisitive guidance, Jobi Manson of Sefari led us into one of the most beautiful landscapes in all of Sea Ranch (Pomo land) for a creative listening workshop…

That rain moves down, down down

expresses the core of its essence

as much as its wetness does.

The same water that soaks the roots of everything,

causing the upward flourishing of all life

Is also what brings the elder oaks

in the woodland where we live

back down to Earth again.