
Photo by Jenny Kirchner



PHOTOS: Welcoming spring
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In the garden at Spirit Mountain Retreat and with locals in attendance, Executive Director Mary Morse lights a ceremonial candle to commemorate the spring solstice on Sunday




On the Yokoji-Zen Mountain Center home page, there is a quote. “Before enlightenment: chop wood carry water, after enlightenment: chop wood carry water.” No matter the level of enlightenment, the work of living continues. That was especially true for Zen Center Abbot Charles Tenshin Fletcher, Roshi after the disastrous Mountain Fire of July 2013. A…
By Dr. Jennifer Gee Director, UC Riverside James Reserve Allison Roth, a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Nick Keiser’s lab at the University of Florida, will be launching a project with Dr. Jennifer Gee, the resident director of The James Reserve, on California quail. Roth comes to us fresh from the University of Oxford where she…
Marc Kassouf, co-owner of Quiet Creek Inn with partner Nathan Depetris, is the new president of the Art Alliance of Idyllwild, one of the most active and visible of Idyllwild’s many nonprofits. He had previously served on the AAI board and was chosen for this demanding post because of his project management, business and organizational…
Phyllis Curington Brown, owner of The Prairie Dove, a perennially popular Idyllwild ladies’ boutique, creates what is beautiful and has done so in many forms and iterations. She has a nuanced and sophisticated perspective, having flown internationally as a flight attendant for TWA for many years and having graduated first in her class from Le…
Choirs sung holiday songs, Santa Claus was taking official gift requests, bonfires were blazing and hot cocoa was available …