My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

Every time my wife and I make the 40-minute drive from our quiet village into the vibrant heart of Oaxaca, I feel a shift—as though I’m step...

Working with the earth has always been a love of mine. It is my connection to nature that is strong. When I graduated art college and could ...

The last time I was in a sweat ceremony was in 1972 on the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, USA. Twenty years old, I had gone w...

It is a beloved time of year in Mexico, bringing families together, and whole communities. Dia de Muertos, in English means “day of the dead...

“O Son of Spirit! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable ...

The beauty of springtime arrives here right on schedule while the world reels from the horrible corona virus pandemic. My wife Amy a...

“You channeled that painting.” Amy said, looking intently into my eyes.   We were standing in our kitchen after she came home from a...

Hawaii is about 2,300 miles at a distance now but just a heartbeat away in our mind and heart. This is what experiences do when th...

We are both a bit thunderstruck—hit by lightning; not burned but filled with a higher vibration from heaven that gleams with light. Bar...

Know Thyself. 
- Socrates True loss is for him whose days have been spent in utter ignorance of his self. -Baha'u'llah I ...

These days I arise before dawn for breakfast. After the sun touches the horizon, nothing passes my lips until night comes. No food or wat...

“Home is where the heart is.”  Sometimes when I am traveling across the world, I find myself in an exotic place that so captivat...

  I am among Mexicans now. Each day I walk the cobbled streets and walkways of Guanajuato City where I am living. All manner of people ...

In the past I have been able to venture into foreign lands and get lost in the culture and landscape. I want to continue being a free ...

Hardships can make us stronger. I do not have complete evidence of this, but believe that every situation has some good in it.   ...

Couple, admiring the sunset. I am a sunset aficionado. I have painted them often and taken scores of photographs. They are fleet...

Nambe, New Mexico. Photo by Jack Gordon When we climbed over the barbed wire fence that separated the highway from wind carved roc...