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Posted on December 1, 2025 by Cathy Edgett

Hot Chocolate Mornings

I head outside and walk briskly feeling I’m back in the Midwest where I grew up. No loitering or sitting on benches, just moving along, as I hope the country does as we strive for and implement morality, and cultivate and honor democracy.

I read that salmon are in Coyote Creek near where I live, so I went to check and didn’t see any today, which may be because the tide is pouring in, so no ducks, fish, or otters, only waves in the water and reeds.

I’m with words from Anne Bancroft in Weavers of Wisdom: The Senecas hold a stone and when it becomes warm and pulsing, they enter the silence within.

Thanks to the rain, mushrooms sprout in our yard.

Posted on June 23, 2025 by Cathy Edgett

Movement of the Tide

We’re at Nick’s Cove in Point Reyes. We made our usual stop at the bookstore in Pt. Reyes Station, and I bought Brooke Williams book, Encountering Dragonfly: Notes on the Practice of Re-Enchantment. It’s a meditation on nature and connecting our inner and outer worlds through observing and being in the natural environment. It advocates a planetary and individual need to re-enchant.

Meanwhile, we’re savoring our current abode on the north side of Tomales Bay as the tide comes in and the tide goes out. It’s June and almost the new moon, so the change is dramatic. When the tide is high, the waves pound underneath our deck and lodging. Looking out, it’s like being in a boat. At low tide the eye is stretched and the other side seems closer. An egret feeds, and I, too, am nourished and fed.

Posted on June 2, 2025 by Cathy Edgett

Velella

Today at low tide Rodeo Beach was covered with Velella velella, also known as by-the-wind sailors. Though they resemble jellyfish, they are related to sea anemones and corals. With a two-inch-high triangular sail, they are carried by the wind, not the currents.