The new and beardless Ed Gulley came over today with Carol, his sane partner, and he bought this quite beautiful and sturdy meditation bench, made out of two chairs, a ladder, and a tough old piece of wood for a bench. It was a kind and gracious gesture, Maria and I both love the bench and plan to sit out there in the quiet woods – we can look out over the farm through the trees there.

Ed, who is built like a small dinosaur, carried the bench out and through the woods and up the hill (Maria and Carol helped also). We found a quiet and peaceful spot. It was too cold to sit out there today, but when the weather warms up I can imagine meditating out there in the morning, or in the ate afternoon.

A wonderful place for quiet time, thinking and settling, also for mulling over writing and chapters for my book. in our world, time to think alone is precious and rare. No computers, news bulletins or cellphones out there, just us, the trees, the birds and creatures of the woods.

Ed came with a buzzsaw and hacked a path through the brush for us, the beginnings of a walking trail. Our farm is on 17 acres, but we’ve only used a third of that, we haven’t been able to get out to our woods until last week, when Ed brought some wooden planks over and made a nice bridge out of them.

Ed has liberated our woods and opened them up to us, and Maria goes out there every day with the dogs to chop out some paths and explore the trees. We will buy the Gulleys’ many dinners for this. Check out Ed’s story on the Bejosh Farm Journal, Ed is also a blogger and writer and folk artist.