Sanctuary Life

Last year at this time, we didn’t know just how much love, grit, and faith this first year’s journey would demand of us… nor could we have imagined how much love it would give back to us in return.

Change abounds as Spring winds down at Rivendell

Driving down the street that intersects with the road to our home, I caught a flash of white from the corner of my right eye. It was...

Lucy did not survive her surgery last week. She went in bravely and with pure trust.

Lucy came to the sanctuary with only days left in her life to spare. She, and her sister, Ethel, had been well-loved in their previous...

The story of a dear friend that we never met, and the refuge she helped build

Associated Press, Ethan Swope People fleeing. Homes are burning. "The fire is moving too fast," they said."Get out! Get out, now!" Some...

Last Sunday the sanctuary took in two new goats. Their names are Hank and Grissom, very handsome pygmy boys. They were raised together...

This morning, there was frost on the plateau. It cast the illusion of a soft veil, gently and carefully laid down on the tippy-tops of...

2 years ago we bought this patch of bare land. It had never been occupied. It was love at first sight for this site.  After one year of...

As I walked toward a large building and into work, the chirping birds caught my attention. They sounded…strange. Their chattering was...

King Winter be gone now⁠ soon cometh the spring!⁠ Has winter gone though? Hard to say with perpetually chilly temps, and the persistent...

Home. There was a time when it frankly was not super important to me. I was more into plot, than setting. Home was just a house where you...

The slow days of winter are seeing their season. Though, this year seems much different from the last according to the still vibrant oak...

Our days at the sanctuary have been tolerably full. The cold weather is the source for most of our sufferance. In the darkest hours, the...

The yelping could be heard across the valley all morning. Clearly not a coyote. Also, clearly not happy or warning yelps. These were the...

The season’s changing has not been subtle. There are ice cubes carried by the wind, it cuts through layers. You wouldn’t know this by...

When we first purchased the sanctuary, our realtor told us that the area used to have deer but not anymore. Shortly after, Paul and I saw...

The glass coke bottle, spun by an overzealous 8-year-old's sticky and dirty little hand, went round and round. It seemed as if it would...

I met a goat today. He came right up to me and stuck his chin out, a very trusting gesture I thought. I offered my hand for him to sniff,...