by Marlene Bumgarner | Jan 15, 2022 | Community, Cooking and Eating, Family, Gardening, Grandparenting, Health
Explore Your Local Market In the last decade, millions of people have altered their buying habits and now purchase some food from CSAs, farmers’ markets, and grocery stores that specialize in locally grown, unsprayed, and unprocessed produce and grains, sustainable...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Aug 2, 2021 | Family, Health
An Inner Guide to Healing Through Energy Medicine Dear Readers, My writing colleague, Dorothy, has published a book on the teachings of her mentor, Rahul Star Patel, and has asked me to let others know about it. I am posting an essay she recently wrote on her blog,...
by Marlene Bumgarner | May 27, 2021 | Aging, Family, Health
Back to Normal? Sitting in a rest stop last week, two hours south of Santa Cruz and a third of the way to my destination, I was overwhelmed with the beauty of it all. People coming and going, politely walking around one another, everyone masked, the hot breeze...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Sep 29, 2020 | Community, Cooking and Eating, Family, Gardening, Health
Doldrums in the Morning I didn’t want to get out of bed this morning. That’s unusual for me – I usually bounce up, starving, with the beginnings of a coffee headache, open the blinds and the sliding door beside my bed so Kismet can go out, and head...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Aug 27, 2020 | Aging, Family, Health
Love at First Touch – Massaging Away Pain I never expected a simple trip to buy vegetables to change my life, but it did. I met Maria Fernandez at the Santa Cruz Farmer’s Market where she was offering five-minute massages. My body hurt that day, as it always...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Aug 16, 2020 | Health, Nature
Morning Each morn I soak my bones. Steaming water soothes the pain. Watch the sun break through the clouds. Hear the birds proclaim the dawn. I concentrate on my breath. A tiny cloud Drifts out to sea. I concentrate on my breath and wonder...