I just got off the phone with the New Mexico Department of Ag. They will be sending me a bee researcher tomorrow to take a sample of my dying bees. It started about a week ago and it is still going on day by day. Very distressing to watch. Piles of them outside the hive,…

It was an experiment. One friend called it “swarmfunding” rather than crowdfunding. I like that. My goal was to see what happened. As of today, we have “swarmgathered” over $2,000!  That is a grand success for this first time. Thank you one and all for contributing. I am grateful for every single contribution, knowing that…

The world is a violent place. And it is a wondrous place. Still. We live in this tension daily and the challenge is how we respond to suffering and still give daily thanks for such an amazingly graced place to call home. This past weekend we were in Crestone, truly a village. A population of…