Author Archives: Carol Kandiko

I have often shared the story that on a summer day in my childhood, walking down a country road in Ohio, I experienced a moment of profound enlightenment. I did […]

Ivan came to work the garden this morning. “Your garden,” he said “should be called an Oasis of Love.” What a wonderful thought! I remember one of our guests saying […]

I was recently intrigued by a quote from Teilhard de Chardin. “Our role is no longer to merely ease suffering, bind up wounds, and feed the hungry, but through every […]

January is a “delicious” time of year to take stock of life. The New Year is a blank slate, a fresh start, a transition often from a “rocky” past year. […]

            I have an earworm today. The lyric for David Haas’ “Star-Child” is playing over and over in my head. “This year, this year let the day arrive when […]

This magic moment! The celebrations of the Mexican Dia de Muertos and the western Christian All Saints and All Souls days focus us on our ancestors. We recall those we […]

Autumn again! Harvest time! … of what was sown and what was not sown. How is it that the little critters that spend the summer scampering around gathering seeds and […]

Spring comes gradually, sprout by sprout and bud by bud, a swelling along the maple twigs and a spike of daffodil or crocus the first day, just a slight bit […]