Emmeline Craig

I was driving along the Bolinas lagoon this afternoon, with my window open and rather not focused on the scenery,  simply watching the road and lost in thought, when my nostrils were at once assaulted by the fabulous anise smell of wild fennel growing thick and fuzzy along the black top… The smell was so […]

Wow… I know memory is a tricky thing, but I really don’t remember being so late to start working in my garden ! Actually, I think I was not completely aware of it when this Spring season sprang…  I have kept myself so darn busy, I ran through the whole miracle of the yearly rebirth

Ah…! Here we are again: the quintessential Hallmark date… Coming up and fast: Valentine’s Day! I can tell many of us have mixed feelings about this… On one hand, it’s a cool thing to celebrate Love and Romance, mating, and all that encompasses sharing dreams and pleasures, from companionship to hot dates. Sure. Who doesn’t

Visions, words and intentions have been put forth continuously and deliberately and honed, refined, sharpened with every passing day… Slowly but surely, out of the blue, what has become The Blissful Gallery emerged and took form, getting more substantial and real… In August 2011, I described my concept to my new friend Patricia Corrigan, talented

So here I am, in the seemingly endless chain of tasks to accomplish before opening my very own Blissful Gallery.  In a few weeks, the place will be bright and inviting, open for business, all set up and pretty: this is the finish line… before it can begin. Or is it?  Depending on my perspective

So once again the year is coming to an end, the days have shortened, leaves have fallen and Thanksgiving is around the corner… It has been a great year so far, in my book. Great in that it was full, intense, purposeful and connected. Full: oh boy… was it, ever ! And I’m not done

Today I went for a walk on the beach ! I know, it seems like a simple ordinary thing, right ? Well, not for me. Since I broke my knee in 2010, I did not go walk on the beach here, at all. I went and walked on a couple of far away shores, and

All wise speakers tell us: our power is in the now moment ! So, after all kinds of planning, searching, estimating and projecting, since no tangible result actually came through yet, I decided to completely let myself into the flow of Daily Life and live each day with as much grace and abandon as I

So there we are, at the middle of this momentous year, already ! Time has flown and many things have been incubating and brewing and taking form in  the apparent stillness of my world. Most of my important moves in the past 6 months have taken place in my head… excepted for a couple of