Welcome baby Max! It was such an honor to be present at your birth. What an amazing day. Many Blessing to you, Mommy and Daddy.

“…a woman can give birth intact, uninjured, and unafraid.”

— Ina May Gaskin

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.Â

~Elizabeth Stone

Today promises to be a beautiful day to take a walk with the kids, jump into a pile fallen leaves, and breathe in the autumn air.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit

– RALPH WALDO EMERSON

With the season now in full swing, my family has rediscovered an old favorite: Fresh autumn apples (we like gala) dipped in creamy natural peanut butter. Be sure to choose organic apples as they’re among the produce with the highest level of pesticide use and residue. Providing that allergies are not an issue, peanut butter is a nice hearty, nutritious alternative to dipping in that other common apple-companion: melted caramel.

 The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

–Rene Descartes