Lessons from the Storm
by Elizabeth Bennefeld

The power and beauty of a storm brings me alive in a way that no other experience has ever quite managed. There is a primitive, sensual quality to the wind and rain and hail that energizes me.

A Passion For Living
by Pamela Willis

Too many of us could apply Henry David Thoreau's words from WALDEN to our lives: ". . . The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. . . ." We work at our jobs, we take care of the people in our lives; we take care of our houses; but when it comes time to take care of ourselves we find that we've run out of hours. The work starts all over again each day, until "quiet desperation" becomes an apt description of the pattern of our living.