the homefront

serendipitously, last week karin and asher and i had an easy ride down to asheville, nc with my parents as they were passing through town.

whoa!
people, i've never felt so at home in all my life.

i've never been able to so clearly feel at home simultaneously in my body and my spirit. i've never before felt so easily understood and understandable. i was glowing. both of my parents and also aaron commented on how my voice has changed in talking about my experiences and about living there. i'm more at home in myself. and i think i'm staying.

aaron was up in philly with nancy at an r.e.m. concert (which he said was brilliant, by the way) and he called us after it was over and asked whether we wanted to meet him back in culpeper or we wanted for him to come down to asheville. we told him we were having amazing experiences and we wanted him to come get a feel for the place himself.

i felt clear that i was either called to live there, or i was there to experience myself and experience home in a way i never had before just to know that it was possible. if it was the latter then i would know what sort of feeling i wanted to create and manifest in wherever i was making home for myself. (i mean, i think i can live in "asheville" without moving there...)

karin, aaron, and i (and to some extent asher) hemmed and hawed about what next steps to take and have settled on spending more time in asheville to experiment and see what the place has for us and us for it. as my dad says, "experiment, see how it feels in everyday life".

so, that's the news folks. asheville is calling. and it's radiant and alluring.

4 teeth and 10 steps

baby jo update:

today we noticed FOUR new teeth busting through on the top row (to make a grand total of six including the bottom two).

and also asher decided to take his show on the road and within 10 minutes made three runs of 5, then 7, then 10 steps respectively.

whew! as my mom says, he's the hardest working baby in show biz

ask

ask and it is given: learning to manifest your desires

a new book that recently found its way into my life
whoa.
it's the most amazing thing i've ever read
the premise, the content, the manner in which it got written
all of it fascinating
i have fantasies of *manifesting* a crateload of them
and sharing the abundance of amazing wisdom
so maybe i will
the information in this book has helped me piece SO much together
the world makes a lot more sense to me now
... again

three hundred sixty six days

yesterday was asher's first birthday! hurray, hurrah. we took a nice little picnic, ash, beej, aaron, and the kape. it was lovely, we made friends with some geese, made enemies with some ants, splashed in the lake, fed the fishies, tossed the floppy frisbee, and all in all had a darn swell time.

w asher st

then we went out to a thai restaurant for a couple special birthday treats. it was tasty and delicious. plus, the thai family(and friends) who run the place are SO cute with asher. they just love him to pieces. he's made friends with them before and they remembered him and gooed and laughed together.

and today, on the first day of his second sun, we climbed around, explored the creek by the red cabin and generally frolicked and played. it was fun.

stream baby

crossing