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, […]

We have only been on the big island for a few days and already I have so much to write.  Like my inner voice is in prose all the time writing little haikus “My lips are sunburn Perhaps it is your kissing me I think it’s the kiss.” Or sensing in my rogue iambic pentameter […]

Conversation opened. 1 unread message. Skip to content Using Gmail with screen readers 2 of 69,035 My Lu Lu bell is in Equadoe Inbox Bonnie Tarantino <bonnietarantino@gmail.com> 9:38 AM (1 minute ago) to me My Lu Lu Bell is in Ecuador. She quit her grueling cyber sales job back in November after saving for years to […]

By Bonnie Tarantino We often ask good questions at dinner when we are all together, and our most recent question is: “When in your life so far have you felt like you were reaching your true potential?” Reflecting on it, I found myself, 39 years old, in the kitchen of our old house.  My 8-year-old, […]