October Issue

October 20, 2009

I’m slowly recognizing the opportunities created by my new web site, Living in Season, and so my ideas about it are shifting.

Originally I thought I would publish an issue on the site every three months and continue to send out my monthly newsletters. But as someone who advocates living in season, I’m not happy with how quickly the information becomes outdated if I leave it up for three months. And I love the extra features the web site offers: photographs, featured quotes, and comments. So I am (with great trepidation) contemplating updating the web site monthly (yes, monthly) and using the newsletter as a place to announce and showcase the new articles. I’m nervous about this naturally—it’s a lot of extra work with no visible means of support. Let me know what you think and if you have any good suggestions.

One of my hopes for the new web site was more collaboration. So I’m delighted to have two articles contributed by readers: a fascinating look at the way Tibetan Buddhism considers ghosts and demons by Karma Norjin Lhamo and a lively article on the new moon in Libra by astrologer, April Elliott Kent. Plus several of the stunning featured photos came from readers: Judy Maselli contributed photographs taken in Oaxaca, Mexico and Sara Polke-Johns, who lives in Wales, sent an atmospheric photo of mist rising from a river valley behind an old graveyard. I love the way the Internet connects us.