Love En Plein Air – A Valentine Cake
Adapted from Malibu Farm’s Bay Leaf-Scented Yogurt Cake By way of Helene Henderson’s, Malibu Farm Cookbook, available at www.malibu-farm.com. Support our local restaurant—The Malibu Farm restaurant and cafe at the Malibu Pier are currently re-opened for outdoor dining and...
Melanie Kareem: Playing Ukulele for Pandemic Resilience
Look all around, there’s nothing but blue skies. Look straight ahead, there’s nothing but blue skies. Welcome to Melanie Kareem’s virtual ukulele group, where Johnny Nash’s lyrics are accompanied with an “island strum,” and the participants have found a...
Forms of Love With Hana Tojo
Hana Tojo is a local silversmith and woodworker who takes time to give back to the Topanga community by volunteering. Hana is nonbinary and uses the pronouns they and them. I met Hana on an unusually warm winter Saturday, ...
What it Really Means to Be a Spiritual Warrior
These days, the terms ‘love and light’ get thrown around like cutesy little cosmic frisbees. Being ‘spiritual’ is the new ‘cool.’ Self-help jargon has become the norm. There is a giant marketing campaign centered around the word ‘love,’ for...
What will keep your lights on when Edison turns you off?
In January, Topanga saw two weeks of threats by SouthernCalifornia Edison (SCE) to turn off the grid due to high wind. In earlyJanuary, the utility warned that PSPS—Planned Safety Power Shut-Off could affect 15,000 homes; the following week, 26,000...
Lunar New Year
The Lunar New Year on February 12 will herald the arrival of the Year of the Ox. For anyone who is still struggling with turmoil in the aftermath of 2020—the Year of the Rat— this could be a good...
How to Love Mercury When it’s in Retrograde.
Here are some laymen’s thoughts about Mercury Retrograde from someone who isn’t an astrologer. Just like Venus is the planet that represents romantic love and Mars the planet of physicality, Mercury is the planet of communication and travel. The planets...
A Simple Remedy for Speedy Tech Lives
Never before have we experienced such speed—such technology—as we are now on this planet. In tandem with this, we also seem to be experiencing epidemics of depression, attention-deficit disorders, and other various dis-eases in the mental and emotional realms,...
It Could Be Worse
“I think Divination seems very woolly. A lot of guesswork, if you ask me.” —J.K. Rowling 2020 was the kind of year that casts a long shadow. Dire predictions for a future where the fallout from the coronavirus crisis...
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