Weddings – Romance and Elopements in Mendocino
A meditation on Mendocino Weddings The joining of two people under the auspices of the State and/or a spiritual tradition is always a major event. It doesn’t matter what the size of the wedding: if only two lovers, a minister/officiant and a witness, a wedding is joyful. It often represents the joining of more than two beings, but the creation of families, especially when one or both bring children into the relationship. The joining of two is also the joining of their families and their friends, creating extended families and new friendships. This year is surprising: few people are calling to arrange any size wedding from an elopement to a full wedding. I have talked with area innkeepers and they have experienced a significant drop in inquiries and suspect...
Newsweek’s David Noonan is Vegan (for now): Or avoiding being a vulture or hyena
To avoid disease and middle age weight gain, David Noonan adopted the 28 day program in The Engine 2 Diet: The Texas Firefighter’s 28-Day Save-Your-Life Plan That Lowers Cholesterol and Burns Away the Pounds. The diet was developed by Rip Esselstyn to help his fellow firefighter adopt a vegan whole foods diet. Esselstyn has been vegan for more than 20 years and is an athlete and son of Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, of the Cleveland Clinic, who has long advocated vegan diets for prevention of disease. (Check out Rip Esselstyn’s web site http://www.theengine2diet.com/) Eating a vegan whole foods diet is a credible way to avoid weight gain and disease. Noonan’s conversion is hopeful and perhaps he can affect other people. But this happy development may...
Stanford in the News
We have been asked thousands of times if we are related to Leland and Jane Stanford who founded Stanford University in the name of their son, Leland Jr. who died of typhoid at 18. We are not. And we understand that Leland and Mary had no close relatives to which to leave any portion of their estate. Our branch of Stanfords is similarly small. Our grandparents are gone and parents are gone – and our branch now consists of only three brothers and a sister and three cousins and all our children. The Stanford Inn by the Sea is a very small family run Inn! Now we are asked if we are related to Robert Allen Stanford. No! Never heard of him until he was accused of defrauding people of millions of dollars. We will still be asked.
Mendocino Center #1
It is a month since I last wrote – a long, eventful month. We have been busy with a variety projects. One of the newest is the creation of the Mendocino Center. Here’s an introduction: - Mendocino is a natural center for healing. For generations, people have come to Mendocino for its breathtaking natural beauty, organic food and wine…and ultimately the powerful energy and resources for wellness that energize people to renew their lives. We came to Mendocino to do innkeeping, looking on it as a family business which could provide a living in one of the most beautiful places in the world. But we got more than we expected. The land changed us: we realized that we could live more gently. Loving animals, we quit eating them. We adopted sustainable...
The Holidays!
Wow! Thanksgiving and now Christmas have passed. The New Year is less than a week away. Yes, we have been busy. Immediately following the Day of the Dead celebration, we decorated for the holidays. Even as early as Thanksgiving, guests enjoy the greenery and color. Also, the Candlelight Inn tour follows Thanksgiving and we have to have the buildings lit, trees up and adorned, wreathes on every door and one tall tree lit behind the Inn. In spite of the economy, we have much to be thankful for. First, our kids have been able to come home to celebrate the holidays with us. They came for Thanksgiving and they are here, now, for the Christmas holidays. Our guests have been fantastic, many writing and sending blessings and good wishes. And for those of you who have been...
Don’t Give-Up Your Land Line!
In 2005, Molly Wood, a senior editor at cnet.com, issued a column The cell phone industry: Big Tobacco 2.0?, in which she wondered if the popular and addictive cell phone is not unlike cigarettes. The cell industry then and now actively argues that scientific evidence does not demonstrate a relationship between cell phone use and disease, specifically cancer (http://www.cnet.com/4520-6033_1-5741203-1.html). This year, Dr. Siegal Sadetzki an epidemiologist and physician at Tel Aviv University, published Cellular Phone Use and Risk of Benign and Malignant Parotid Gland Tumors–A Nationwide Case-Control Study, (American Journal of Epidemiology., 15 February 2008; 167: 457 – 467; http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/167/4/457.) The study...
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