Home at Home

Hi everyone,

After my last post, some of you responded "Great, you found home inside yourself and all that, but where ARE you??"

I wasn't trying to be evasive. I just hadn't settled somewhere yet.

The funny thing is, where I found home, metaphorically, is... where I'm now home! I'm living here on Vashon Island at the same place where I spent almost a month in self-retreat.

Cedar Spring Farm, Vashon Island, WASHINGTON!

I didn't know I'd be coming back to live here when I last wrote. It took leaving again, trying to live in a city again, and mostly struggling with some inner conflict, to really allow myself to consider that yes, I could live in this beautiful place I love so much.

A little taste of what I opened my eyes to most mornings in August. 

Cedar Springs Farm is the family farm of Barb and Doug, friends I met through the network of Nonviolent Communication trainers. Doug's family has lived on this land for four generations. They've had a dream for a long time of building a community of people deeply committed to nonviolence and peacebuilding. It's sweet that my moving here helps make a dream come true for me and for them, as well. There are now five NVC trainers living here or near here. There's also a farmer here living out his dream of building a sustainable food system. I've been loving living on a working farm!

Helping out at the farmers market. Yum.

And, of course, there's the work I'm doing, which I'm just loving. Here's a workshop we're teaching here in a few weeks:

I'll write more soon, but just wanted to let you all know where I am these days...

Specifically, I plan to share an update about the funds many of you helped raise to support nonviolent communication training for people from Palestine. I'm so excited about the beautiful way it's playing out!

So many plums ripe at once! Getting them ready for the dehydrator.

If you want to contact me, I'm back on my cell phone, and here's my snail mail address:

12108 SW 148th ST, Vashon Island, WA, 98070

Much love to all of you!