Road Trip Planned for Summer 2013

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We're embarking on the next Peak Moment tour this summer!  We're heading to the Pacific Northwest. Our return route may be via the Canadian Rockies to Colorado and New Mexico. We'll see. If you can offer a safe place to park not far from the I-5 corridor in Oregon or … [Read more...]

Unveiling our Spiffy New Website

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Happy Spring! We're excited to unveil our new website springing forth!  Take a Moment to Peak, er, Peek! Have a look at the widescreen slideshow and up-to-date features like buttons to Share posts on Facebook, Twitter, or elsewhere. See our list of favorite … [Read more...]

Deepening into Winter

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December 2012. The winter solstice beckons us towards a season of quieter inward time, which many of us push against in this frenetic culture's dizzying holiday season. We hope you'll find some quiet moments gazing at the starry night sky, or cozied up beside a warm fire. … [Read more...]

The Wood Wenches Celebrate Lighter Bodies

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October 2012. An unseasonally-cold winter storm last week brought the first local tornado we're aware of. As it moved east, the storm joined two other fronts to form the historic cyclone Sandy. All are in-our-face manifestations of increasing climate change. Denial should be … [Read more...]

Hot August News

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August 2012. We've taken a vacation from newsletters this summer. In physical space, we're thinning our woods to slow any wildfire coming up the South Yuba River canyon (may it not happen!) As we finish projects around Lone Bobcat Woods, we're freeing ourselves to be "up for … [Read more...]

Springing into Summer at Lone Bobcat Woods

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This newsletter is short and sweet — we're taking time to enjoy the lovely outdoors this spring-almost summer. A surround-sound of returning birds and friendly frogs serenades us as we complete homestead projects and make ourselves more at home in Bearhaven meadow at … [Read more...]

Winter Inward-Going Time

All quiet on the Peak Moment front during this seasonal inward-going time. We've taken an extended holiday to visit family and take advantage of unlimited electricity and internet while churning and upgrading internet, email, phones, and getting an iPad online (an investment … [Read more...]

September News from Peak Moment TV

Summer is gently turning into fall, with beautiful poison oak leaves fading to soft crimson and dusty yellow, and our first brrrrr crisp morning. In harmony with this seasonal contraction, we feel inclined to contract a bit ourselves after three years of extensive … [Read more...]

May News from Peak Moment TV

  Things are moving!! And they're moving with an overriding theme of Sharing. It's not just our recent conversations on a sharing garden and tool libraries. Or the conversation we just taped with two lawyers working to make sharing commonplace. We're renting our … [Read more...]

March News from Peak Moment TV

 The news of Japan's earthquake and nuclear crisis shook me. I share my very personal inner and outer responses in "Shaken."Inner response? I keep "getting" that a no-growth economy and increasing chaos are the New Normal. Industrial civilization is collapsing under the … [Read more...]