Jeff & Joan Stanford: HUMAN CONNECTION
We read three stories this morning about human connection. In the first, a 92 year old mathematician and a teenage girl connect through their passion for math (92 and [...]
Jeff & Joan Stanford: EARTH’S MEDICINE CHEST
“We have the best medicine chest right here outside our door,” Jeff remarked this morning. He meant that he’ll walk up to the Inn through the garden, in our pure [...]
Jeff & Joan Stanford: A MONTH OF CELEBRATION
“May is the month of expectations, the month of wishes, the month of hopes.” Emily Bronte May ushers in celebrations: Mothers’ Day, Memorial Day, graduations, weddings, anniversaries, end of [...]
Jeff & Joan Stanford: EVERYDAY IS EARTH DAY
We’ve been thinking a lot about hope. Usually we are “hoping for” something, an outcome. Rev. Cameron Trimble writes about a “braver form of hope.” Introduced centuries ago by [...]
Joan & Jeff Stanford: CARING INNKEEPERS
We just returned from an extended vacation/holiday (our first in 45 years since beginning innkeeping here). We drove to Vancouver, B.C. to visit family, ferrying to Bowen Island for a [...]
Our Take on Intermittent Fasting
By Sid Garza-Hillman Seems like intermittent fasting is all the rage these days – restricting eating to an 8 - 10 hour window (during daylight) and no calories outside [...]
Joan & Jeff Message: Thoughtful Meditation
Here's a short Meditation Jeff sometimes mentions when teaching his "What Meditation Isn't" class at the resort's wellness center. Meditation is not necessarily a solo pursuit nor is it [...]
Joan & Jeff Message: Welcome Spring
"You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming." - Pablo Neruda ~ Trees are in bud and bloom, fat robins hopping and days lengthening: [...]
Joan & Jeff Message: Breathe Easy
Celebrate the Air! Mendocino's air is magnificent, cleansed by sun and sea spray over 5,000 miles of Pacific Ocean. And, when we first arrived, the Coast air was a [...]
Joan & Jeff Message: Travel Light
Happy February Let's face it - there is an environmental cost to any and all travel, but we believe it is imperative we all look for ways to minimize that [...]