An overlooked but intrinsic aspect of our food bank adventures remains our discovery that we could and should use all the veggie and meat scraps from our food prep to make our own broth!

Some months back, I suggested that we embark on a new creative adventure to attempt to capture photographically the heart & soul of my home.

For many years our personal guardian dragon, Plantagenet, a descendent of the dynasty of kings of which Richard the Lionhearted was the last, stood as protectorate of my home.

Man, oh man are things ramping up with activity around here. Maggie McDonald and I are inching towards a month-end collaboration to repair and revitalize the faux mosaic that her mother and in-house TSH artist created way back when.

Our latest addition to the series This Is Your Life: The Surgeon’s House is so divinely-guided as evidenced at the warp speed we are moving it along and withOUT the encumbrance of a completion schedule – yea.

I’m back with the intention to get on track with the story-writing part of my stewardship here and the first step is to document the chronology of what has and has NOT happened since 2017, my home’s 100th birthday that inspired the compilation of the binders of This Is Your Life – The Surgeon’s House.

I simply can’t believe that it has taken us so long to re-build, seal, and complete the painting of the steps leading to the honey shack and the veggie shed. Nonetheless we FINALLY COMPLETED that task to the joy of all of us who use those stairs.

The advent of the Chinese new year 2/10/2024, which in Chinese astrology is The Year of the Wood Dragon, caused TSH staff to jump in whole hog for a year of AUSPICIOUSNESS, IMPERIAL POWER, AUTHORITY, DIGNITY, HONOR, SUCCESS, LUCK & CAPACITY. How is that for a mouthful of a big order?

Last September, the 23rd to be specific, my home and Rumi ganged up on me with yet another faint glimmer of a divinely-guided, creative project.