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Last night got exciting in about 10:15 PM. I was l

Last night got exciting in about 10:15 PM. I was lying on the couch when I looked over at my friend and said, “did you feel that?”She didn’t. But the plants all around her house were swaying. Earthquake!The epicenter was pretty far away, so we only felt the distance rolling. But it was a big quake, even if it hasn’t made the news where you are: magnitude 8.2 and the largest in North America since 1965.The tsunami warning sirens blared for the next three hours. Homer as a tourist destination brings many people to low ground; we watched a line of RVs heading up and out.Happily, Homer is situated in such a way that make tsunamis much less likely here. My friend’s place is also just above the tsunami line.So we were attentive, but not entirely worried. We joked about whether a wave would come all the way up into her garden and soak the abundant strawberries.Just before 1 AM, the tsunami sirens sing a different tune, canceling the warning. It sounds as though what wave there was never topped 1 foot in height. I have not yet read how communities closer to the quake fared.Thank you to everyone who reached out to see if I’m OK. All is well here.

It’s okay to need a break.It’s okay to take

It’s okay to need a break.It’s okay to take one, if you’re at all able.Breaks are important, even necessary. If we don’t take time to recharge, we … break.This is me, leaning against a driftwood log just above the tide line, sitting in the duff and sun and wind to read my book near incredible water and mountains.Breaks are a mellow and easy kind of mini vacation. They allow us to regroup, reset, re-evaluate, reinvest and restore our commitments to the actions of our lives.This is what an ideal break looks like for me. What do optimal breaks look like in your world?

Another day, another opportunity to make salad bea

Another day, another opportunity to make salad beautiful.Flowers help, but aren’t strictly necessary.Monday’s effort focused on the beauty of chioggia beets. I grated some, but also added bigger pieces to show off their beautiful candy-striped interior.Going with the red theme, I also added Monarda flowers, which have just started blooming in my friend’s garden here.The rest: lettuce/kale salad mix, thinly sliced new onions and garlic scapes from the @homerakfarmersmarket, plus Sitka strawberries, mint (pictured here behind the bowl) and a few fireweed flowers from @kyrakoe’s garden.So 100% #AlaskaGrown.What are you adding to beautify your meals these days? Let me know 👇🏼.

When I lived on the Oregon coast, I developed a pr

When I lived on the Oregon coast, I developed a practice of walking the beach just before sunset most (dryish) evenings.The sheen of water on sand at the ocean’s edge would reflect the coloring sky.I called it “walking the mirror.“ It was kind of like flying while fully grounded.I love that feeling of down being up, and vice versa. It feels like a reminder that everything is connected, that there is a larger whole of which we are a part.Here’s a little vision of that from Sunday morning’s minus tide.

New rule: All salads should always be as beautiful

New rule: All salads should always be as beautiful as possible.#JoyIsMedicine #Gardenmedicine #FoodIsMedicine #alaskagrown #EdibleFlowers #EatYourFlowers #FoodAsMedicine #FoodNotLawns #EatYourVeggies #GrowYourVeggies #AlaskaNaturopathicMedicine #AlaskaNaturopathicDoctor #sparklife

I talk a lot about Vitamin N — the way nature li

I talk a lot about Vitamin N — the way nature literally helps maintain our health.We can get these benefits from a city park, a backyard tree, or even looking at nature pictures.But actually being out in it? That’s unparalleled.I can’t offer you smell-o-vision. But imagine cool, salty air, intermittent rain (after a parched early summer), and the most gorgeous glacier-hugging mountains rising above the bay.And imagine getting to walk amid this grandeur, warm and dry and tingling with life.Close you eyes. Smell the salt. Hear the waves and the birds. Feel the sand soft under your feet. Imagine looking out at this spot with all your senses, awe and wonder turned up to 11.How does that make you feel?And if it makes you feel good, this imagining, know too that this process has a measurable beneficial physiological effect on your mood, your stress and your immune system.How are you getting your Vitamin N this weekend?(People included for scale.)

Another fully Alaska-grown meal.Lettuce, chickwe

Another fully Alaska-grown meal.Lettuce, chickweed, cucumber, onion, chive flowers, calendula, Johnny jump up flowers, borage flowers, mustard leaf and flowers, mint and nasturtiums.Yum.

Rainy Wednesday with the gulls.

Rainy Wednesday with the gulls.

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