carrot's blog

This morning, I felt a huge amount of gratitude for the blessings I get when I work with the teenage moms at the White Shield Center. I invited one of the girls to tell her birth story in prenatal class and was overjoyed to see the love on her face as she gazed at her little one and talked about his arrival in the world; a birth which was calm, beautiful and all natural!  Read More »

I love my house! Newly renamed Pandemonium Fortress, or the Panda Fort, the once-upon-a time Pink House has been transformed from a party punk house to a peaceful place for travelers, a home for those who would otherwise be homeless, a practice space for communal living, a house where it is perfectly acceptable to skin roadkill on the front porch.  Read More »

Last night I went to a benefit party to benefit a group called Blue Mountain Biodiversity Project, which is a non-profit which is pretty much singlehandedly run by a woman named Karen Colter; an amazing lady who probably saves more forest in this state then anyone else.  Read More »

So I just got back from a hitchhiking trip down the 101 costal highway in Oregon and California to see the redwoods. I've been wanting to see the redwoods for a long time, 'cuze books I've read and people I've run into tell me you have a spiritual thing happen when you see trees that big; many people seem to have some sort of spiritual awakening.  Read More »

Imagine for a minute that you are a newborn baby; for nine, quite months, you've sat in a peaceful, warm, nourishing womb, listening intently to the sounds outside; the voices of your mother and father, their friends, their own parents, their sisters and brothers.  Read More »

I'm madly in love with the world again today! Part of this is no doubt that I'm at a "manic" part of my natural cycles, but also because, Wed. night, I got to labor sit with one of the girls at the shelter I work at, and I learned some incredible lessons from her.  Read More »

I'm white, no doubt about it. My ancestors are all from England, Germany, Ireland and Scotland. My sister and many of my cousins are redheads; my family is about as white as you can get. Yet every time I hear that nasty term "white privilege", I want to freak out. I have a couple of reasons for this.  Read More »

I really liked what Turtlesuds wrote about spending time naked in Eden; yesterday I took two four-year olds out to the Columbia River Gorge for a wild run up and down stony trails, chasing each other, looking at endless waterfalls and giant Doug Fir trees; we got high on oxygen and running, us city-kids, not used to lots of fresh, unpolluted air.  Read More »