by Louie Ferrera | May 5, 2023 | Meditations
Our hyperdrive, instant gratification, attention span of a flea culture has recently become more so: there is now a clock in a baseball game. Up until the start of the current season, there were no time limits in baseball, the only major sport without a clock. Since...
by Louie Ferrera | Jan 16, 2023 | Meditations
So, the other day I’m driving west on rural Hwy 12 towards the Sonoma coast just outside the little town of Bodega. The lush green hillside is dotted with grazing cows, the road slick from last night’s rain. It’s clear, dry and sunny, a rare occurrence...
by Louie Ferrera | Nov 2, 2022 | Meditations, Nature
Silence is such a beautiful thing. In the hyperdrive world that we live in there are so few opportunities to experience true silence, those opportunities are there but you’ve got to seek them out, silence does not usually come to you. Silence helps me think, allows me...
by Louie Ferrera | Oct 29, 2022 | Meditations, Music
While listening recently to the Crosby, Stills and Nash version of David Crosby’s “Guinnevere” I had a bit of a vision. Here’s what I saw. She is all green cat eyes, her liquid gold hair doing the wind dance, waving wild and free like ribbons in the salty sea breeze,...
by Louie Ferrera | Oct 24, 2022 | Meditations
Blue is many things, it’s a color, a feeling, a state of mind. There is much under the umbrella that we call blue. It is said that eyes are the window to the soul and for me, no eyes provide a clearer view than blue eyes. I’ve often become mesmerized when I look into...
by Louie Ferrera | Sep 6, 2022 | Meditations
Where do you go when you die? At one time or another every human has asked this question. The fear of death is the fear of the unknown, what happens to you after you die is the deepest and most perplexing unknown of them all. Philosophers, shaman, mystics, artists,...
Lots of great stuff here! I can smell the greenwood here, the earth, the sap, the slight humid feeling when…
Proud Parents for sure! she will treasure this essay for years to come.!! Congratulations Denali!
What a milestone for Denali and you! I'm crying reading this. I know she'll do well--she already has. But your…
Oh my goodness- your words resonate with my entire being - Yes! our time with our littles is fleeting and…
Joni was right. It won’t be long now till you drag your feet just to slow that circle down. Very…