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Death and Rebirth: Life At El Rancho
By Jillian Vriend Death is a necessary and unavoidable result of being alive. Every beginning brings an ending. Yet it is hard for most people to embrace death as a natural and sacred process. On the...
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Building The Ark: Life At El Rancho
By Jillian Vriend The ark is about learning what I don’t know; remembering what my soul knows; and using my intuition to feel out the rest. I have felt like Noah at times; holding a prophecy of a big...
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Brace for Impact: Life at El Rancho
By Jillian Vriend “The most difficult thing we have to do in order to survive the coming crash is to renounce the life of artificial luxury that has been the temporary product of the systematic...
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Cows, caterpillars, and cabbage: Life At El Rancho Blog
By Jillian Vriend Nature is a better partner than slave– Gaia’s Garden I am dreaming of plants. Last night, the big crisis of my dream was about providing a trellis for a runner-type sweet pea plant...
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Beginnings And Endings: Life At El Rancho Blog
By Jillian Vriend Beginnings and endings. Death and rebirth. Life cycles this way and especially here and now at the ranch, during the season of Dark Mother and spring. A beautiful duck died this...
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Summer Season Of Swarms And Storms: Life At El Rancho Blog
By Jillian Vriend Today is June 21st, summer solstice, the day with the most hours of daylight and the beginning of summer. It means something different here on the ranch then it did in Canada. In...
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Always More To Learn In The Face Of Near-Term Human Extinction Possiblities:...
By Jillian Vriend “Whenever the need for sanctuary presents itself, tomorrow or ten years from now, you will wish you knew more. So start learning right now, and go hard.” Brace For Impact, Thomas...
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Poco a poquito: Life At El Rancho
By Jillian Vriend Poco a poquito or poco a poco means, “little by little,” in Spanish. The hispanic foreman here at the ranch uses it often and it’s become a favorite of ours as well. Not only is it...
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Finding Home And The Unfolding Mystery: Life At El Rancho
By Jelelle Awen I’m sitting here at an internet cafe in Tule, a town about 90 minutes from the ranch. Normally I’ve been writing ahead of time and sharing it once I am in town. But, today, I thought I...
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Letting Go Of Who You Are Not: Life At El Rancho
By Wayne Vriend It’s been a couple months now just about since arriving at our destination: Rancho Amigos, though my sense of tracking time is way off from what it used to be. It sure doesn’t feel in...
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