by Louie Ferrera | Mar 18, 2025 | Meditations
A couple of weeks ago I bought a bunch of new stuff and man did it feel good! First up were the shoes. I’d been wearing the same black New Balance athletic shoes for biking and walking for something like the past five years. They were worn out and no longer felt good...
by Louie Ferrera | Feb 28, 2025 | Friends & Family, Meditations
To walk through the door of Emma’s Barbershop in Santa Rosa is to enter a portal to the past. An old school barber’s pole stands in the window, spinning its red and white stripes into infinity. The shop is small and narrow, customers wait for their haircuts in...
by Louie Ferrera | Feb 18, 2025 | Love, Meditations
Donald Trump is once again wreaking havoc in the White House. Anger and hatred abound. Me? I’m out there spreading the love and kindness one tangerine at a time. We have several different types of fruit trees in our backyard but a little tangerine tree is by far the...
by Louie Ferrera | Jan 26, 2025 | Meditations
Night begins to fall and the solar lights blink on one at a time, it’s a reliable progression. First is the light bulb replica, the incandescent variety basically unchanged since the days of Edison. It hangs from the bare branches of our Asian pear tree. Below the...
by Louie Ferrera | Jan 19, 2025 | Meditations
In this photo, Buddha’s eyes are closed in a state of silent meditation, his head tilted downward as he contemplates his navel, his body glows in stark contrast to the dull grey fence behind him. Buddha’s hands are in his lap, his thumb and forefingers touch in a...
by Louie Ferrera | Sep 9, 2024 | Meditations
One of the readers of this blog recently commented on how much she enjoys the “deep dives” I do when I write about music. This got me thinking; in pretty much all of my essays, I really do dig in and get to the heart of the matter, I “go deep”...
“It was alive and took over our bodies as we swirled around each other” Around, and sometimes through! Comin’,comin’,comin’, around….…
“we were amoebas colliding to create sounds previously unheard.” Nothing else needs to be said. Thanks for letting me jump…
My first thought is that the sign was placed there by the Sidhe back in the depths of time, and…
Well I’m late to this essay, we’ve been busy with a few home projects! “. . . pause and .…
Louie, you are one very sweet man!