Joan & Jeff Message: Finding Hope In Nature
Our hearts go out to the men, women, and children in the Ukraine caught in an unimaginable conflict. In this time of war as well as the darkness of [...]
The Art of Connection: Valentine’s Day 2022
Valentine's Day is a celebration of relationship, founded in love, a term that resists definition. Love is more than pheromones or the qualities of a partner's hair, their physique, their [...]
Personal Growth: Prepare Yourself for Wisdom
"Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, [...]
The Gift of Health
The Stanford Inn is the kind of place we would all build if we were as singled-minded, as energetic, as creative as the Stanford family. The Inn is wonderful!!” [...]
Pandemic Reflections: Change Your Mind
This past year and a half gave us an opportunity to open to nature, attending to movement and changes with the seasons that we had failed to notice when [...]
Earth Care: Four small changes you can make that DO make a difference…
ONE American's toilet paper requires “harvesting” 7,000,000 trees per year, mostly Canadian White Spruce which are found in the world's boreal forests. These forests are the planet's largest terrestrial [...]
Pandemic Reflections: The Vaccine Decisions that Allow Us to Open
A Brief Introduction... We recently announced that we were reopening Ravens for indoor dining to vaccinated diners, after considerable thought. We were thanked and we were attacked. We found [...]
Earth Care: Celebrating (a Different) Earth Day
WISHING YOU JOY ON EARTH DAY 2021: Celebrating the Earth is celebrating life, our selves - while celebrating the gifts Nature gives. Nature is to us as Santa Claus [...]
Personal Growth: This time reminds us that spring and beauty reside here
"Remember your partner's eyes when you first recognized yourself in them. Remember that energy, that joy" This year many couples downsized or postponed weddings or opted for a simple, [...]
Pandemic Reflections: Lean into Art with Joan Stanford
The pandemic has been disorienting – every day is weird but rarely stimulating and for most, not satisfactory at all. Tapping into creativity is a great way to step [...]