We awoke to warm temperatures and high winds. In the next few days, we will experience every kind of weather there is – warmth, rain, snow and ice, frigid temperatures. Monday and Tuesday, we are heading towards the ocean we just want to see it, it will be cold and snowy but wonderful to see the water. We both miss it sometimes.

We are only going to be gone for a day or two. I loved the image of Maria hauling the hay to the feeder, seeds and bits blowing behind her, her eyes close and her hair swept back in the wind. We both love living a life that calls us to nature, to be outside, to see and feel the elements, to look at open skies and beautiful hills.

The animals ground us, they are the greatest practitioners of radical acceptance, I think, the accept life as it is. They never lament their lives or grouse about their fates or whine about their care.