{words} light

{snap} beach rocks

{pebble rainbow - goat rock beach} hello again. i have been away from the inn for five months. this was an unexpected absence. you have been missed, my dear friends. i shall be gently easing back...

{meditation} to clear past + present + future

{snap} mushroom love

{snap} mural + muse

{photo by rob knugg}me.under a highway.on a cold rainy april day.snapping pictures of maps and writings for their upcoming album release.an afternoon can vanish in a wink when i am in my...

{challenge} yoga

{laura ahrens - compass pose}yoga has been beckoning me in recent months.i practiced regularly when i lived in los angeles a decade ago.it quietly slipped out of my life in recent years.in...

{snaps} bridges + fractals

during these early spring months, i have been away from the inn doing some deep inner work.my days have been filled with gentle yoga, yerba mate, new friendships, ecstatic dancing, mindfulness...

{film} fictional flamingo pink

on a recent adventure, i captured the mesmerizing vintage flamingo hotel sign on video. while i was filming, my magical friend bekah and i had a brief chat about the color pink...several days later...

{snap} lights + strings

this is the inside of a grand piano. it lives next door. there are beautiful golden lights inside. i love to stare at the mesmerizing inner world of this instrument. earlier this week, i played...

{snap} plum blossoms

spring is starting to do its thing all over sonoma county.the foliage frippery which is suddenly emerging everywhere makes me feel positively swoony.i nearly pulled my car over at least twenty...

{revisit} jitterbug perfume

for the second time in my life, i am reading jitterbug perfume by my favorite author in the universe, tom robbins... i discovered tom robbins when i was seventeen. one twinkly summer night, a...

{video} sexy specs circa nineteen fifty

due to a temporarily wonky eyeball, i have foregone contacts and am instead wearing glasses every day this week...{peculiar momma}as a tribute to my favorite frames, i present you with this classic...

{card} crown of stars

this is the first tarot card i ever chose to represent myself in a reading...i was eighteen when i identified myself as the empress.i am double that age now and i still do.while exploring a local...

{visit} analog memories

{step inside to step back in time}

{music} a sweet tweet

please allow me to introduce you to one of my favorite places in the twitterverse: "We had an idea. What if we picked tweets we liked from people and made them into songs? Would it be easy? Would...

{snaps} succulent magic hour

the succulent garden next door was a glowing festival of fractal wonder yesterday in the late afternoon sunshine...

{off} three minutes

{steven bonner}yesterday, while sitting in a coffee shop, i entertained the infinite by getting lost amidst fluffy clouds which hovered above the train station...

{simplicity} touchstones

four things keeping me centered right now:green teaa new earthmorning pagesdancing

{moment} velvet shadow

recentlyi was lounging like a lizard in the sunsoaking in the warm rays of juneuarywhen a shadow passed over meand i opened my eyes to seethis...

{shift} heart map

{star heart by selflesh}i have been a quiet innkeeper lately.my inner world as an artist is shifting and has required my full attention.a challenge i have in my work: how do i continue to produce...

{music} pretty lights

on constant repeat in my world lately: the music of pretty lights.in love with this video...

{moment} sunbeams

sat in a coffee shop todaysun shimmering off of a window across the street...warming my face...which reminded me of this...{robert montgomery}

{words} kiss the joy

various sources keep giving me the same message lately:let go. let go. let go.several days ago this message came from a william blake poem found in the tibetan book of living and dying by sogyal...

{birds} a comedic view

i laughed out loud when i recently discovered this quote...i think this is absolutely wonderful, especially considering that some of my most holy moments have involved being shat upon by birds.if...

{snaps} small pleasures

vintage vehicles, pup art, and swanky chocolate: three very simple things that melt this innkeeper into a silly swoon puddle...{this car as a pink convertible = poster on the back of my teenage...

collection: in a word {round two}

here is the collection of words from my bag that have zoomed all over the globe this week...a few details:* i pulled each word randomly from rob brezsnys pronoia.* the words are written on paint...

{celebrate} year two

i was busy at work in a cloud of glitter and words this weekend when i realized that the inn had arrived at another milestone...{hedy lamarr * original image via valentino vamp * edit by moi}two...

new year tradition: in a word {round two}

when i moved to san francisco almost a decade ago, i started a new years eve tradition. on the last night of each year, i write a variety of words on slips of paper, place them in a little bag, and...

magical wishes + bubbling brew

hello, dear wonderful guests!wishing each and every one of you a radiant, happy new year!i am finally back from my holiday travels, which were truly delightful...{innkeeper antics on new years...

{finale} with love

{thankful print by oh my deer}dear friends,tonight my holiday travels begin.as i journey near and farto be with loved onesi have a very full heart.it is with sincere gratitudeand abundant...