When I Was A Boy

Hearthfire Presents . . . Jane Siberry

As part of an ever-deepening, always surprising series of community concerts, Hearthfire is pleased to present an intimate evening with Jane Siberry! Event Details Sunday, December 9, 2012 Doors will open at 7:30, for a concert at 8PM UPDATE! Jane’s Opening Act: Kai Macauley & Jonas Tauber Admission $50. Reservations required. …

The Mastery of Practice

You might think arranging to have the foremost banjo player in the world give an intimate concert at Hearthfire would be a challenge, but all it took was making the invitation. The transporting, solo banjo music we experienced on Friday was the result of some delightful synchronicity, and moreover, the …

Music of the Heart

Over the weekend, Hearthfire continued exploring the power of sacred music by hosting an intimate concert and ceremony offered by  new friends from Ojai, California, Rafael Bejarano and Beth Leone. The private audience was a circle of thirty people, ranging in age from four to seventy years, some of whom …

Hearthfire presents . . . Size2shoes

Exciting news! The musical duo, Size2shoes, who we first met in Ireland with poet David Whyte, is coming to Hearthfire on Friday, March 23rd, to play and sing with us! The talented brothers O Suilleabhain bring energetic humor and harmony to their unique brand of inspirational pop, which includes original …

The Design of Your Beginnings

With the transition of the winter Solstice gradually expanding the length of daylight and with the timely reset of the New Year, we have recently experienced a sense of completion, and have greeted a beginning. During the cold winter months, we’ve taken part in celebration and gathering. The essence of …

Giving Thanks

For all things as wild and majestic as this local dinner guest; for family and community; for the act of gathering in gratitude to celebrate a bounty of heart, even in times of fear and scarcity. Especially in those times, we give thanks for what nature provides, and the boundless …

Full Moon, Fall Mandala

Come, come, whoever you are, Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving—it doesn’t matter, Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times! Come, come again, come. ~Rumi Thanks to Joseph Jastrab for introducing us to this poem and his musical arrangement of …

Like Snow

Hearthfire’s retreat on Sunday, October 30, 2011 was envisioned as a day of slowing down to explore Presence. The unprecedented October blizzard helped facilitate just that: we received about a foot of snow the day before our intrepid retreaters traveled to us (from as far as Capetown). We needed only look …

Welcome!

In ancient times, the hearth fire was a place of warmth and safety to gather around; a place to come home to for stories, song and sustenance. It was a source of light by which to see and be seen, and its heat was a tool for transformation. The glowing …