by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Food, Spiritual
First appeared in The Franklin Journal The Red Barn” is a small restaurant at 455 Riverside Drive, Augusta, Maine. Making your way out of Augusta via ME-3 E, you may think you’ve gone too far just about the time you find the left turn onto Riverside. Drive down...
by Lillian Lake | | Food, Spiritual
First published in Franklin Journal A full morning was spent here helping out Mother Nature. Here in Maine, we are in great need of rain. Where I sit in the Western Mountains, the rain that does come through, seems to mostly go above or below our locale. Until this...
by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Spiritual
My facebook and twitter feed has been seeded with reflections on the Orlando shooting. There have been expressions of anger and hatred; excuses for each side’s justification and judgement; as well as calls for openness and shining love and light on that which...
by Lillian Lake | | Spiritual
I was listening to Collette Baron-Reid one day and she said “our stories get suction-cupped to our face”. Yes! People who know pieces of our personal story, see us as that story and stop there.Worse, they create stories for us, about us and this becomes...
by Lillian Lake | | Food, Spiritual
First published in Franklin Journal It’s difficult for me to share my “health crisis initiated” food journey. However, stories connect people and as many people are having food related health issues, it seems important to summon the courage to share. We often believe...
by Lillian Lake | | Food, Spiritual
In previous writing, I have mentioned a health issue which arose following emergency abdominal surgery. Over the course of my two week hospital stay, I discovered I couldn’t eat any hospital food without severe pain and bloating. Hospital food is not known for its...
