I have not been writing as much lately. I feel a little muted, a little distant and removed from the world right now. The media has become a toxic relationship that I keep trying to break up with but keep bumping into at a bar. I keep looking over at it, hoping my love will […]

I have been thinking of how to break this down. I am especially raw about this, given that at Scott’s TOA’s annual holiday dinner last night, a wife of one of his partners said to me, “Bonnie, my friend has been coming to one of your classes and really wants me to join her, but […]

“In my last hours in San Diego during my Christmas with my children, we decided to walk along the beach to take in the surf and shifting clouds. At one point, I felt a strong mood wash over me, a deep sadness. When would we all be together again? A wedding in June? The thought […]

Ancient Song Bonnie Tarantino She watched them from just beyond the reef.  Her mermaid eyes were still sharp at 80, though she looked an eternal 30.  It amazed her how close she could get without being seen.  How easily the human eye saw only what it could know while editing out what it could never […]

Here is the meditation that will help you intergrate the beautiful and powerful energy available to us in the next few weeks.  Enjoy! https://youtu.be/YMSYdzYpq2o    

Some days, the house is a mess, the gardens are a mess,  I am a mess. It ain’t pretty around here. Maya is back at school in North Carolina, opening big, heavy doors to wisdom.  Lucia is camping off the edge of a Colorado mountain lake. Jack is sitting quietly on a surfboard, watching the […]

My fingernails have dirt under them from aggressive weeding, and I still have Hawaiian sand in my summer bag. I’ve never been a great cleaner or weeder.  My first week back from Hawaii, I had an attitude, and it showed. I left the suitcase unpacked for a day or two, resisted the big food shop, […]

In Glennon Doyle’s book Untamed, she introduces the world to a wonderful tool she teaches her children, “We can do hard things.”  I easily adopted this as a mantra of my own. “I can do hard things,” as I enter the cold plunge. “I can do hard things,” as I step out of the car […]

Waialea Bay on the Big Island of Hawaii is one of the most beautiful tree-lined beaches in the world. Yesterday was unusually misty and cool, but we’re not fair-weather beachgoers. When the weather shifts, we dig our chairs and feet in and stay put.  We trust the sun to find us again. Because of this, […]