WELCOME to Holley's Hollow!
Welcome to my humble website. It
has been many months since I have posted here. 2008 has brought many changes for me and us all! I resigned last year from
my nurse management position at the local hospital and invested in mountain wilderness retreat land with my sister in the
Santa Cruz Mountains in California. Part of it is an eco-spiritual retreat center called WindTree. You can read of the Summit
Fire disaster and miracles that have taken place there on my "Holleyblogs" page. Many thanks to many of you who have contributed
to rebuilding, offering sanctuary to those who lost their homes and replanting the trees there. Your support is deeply appreciated.
Last Fall Equinox we erected a ten foot peace pole there that had "May Peace Prevail on Earth" engraved on it in eight languages.
It still stands among the cinders and the bones of our labyrinth. We consider it a miracle.
Many good things happened
this year as well. We elected a new kind of candidate who has a great mandate for change from WE THE PEOPLE. My partner
Liz and I had the blessed fortune to travel to South America, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and many parts of the US including
our beloved sanctuary in the Santa Cruz Mountains, WindTree. I will write and post more photos and links about these travels
soon.
In June, I had major neck and back surgery that was been necessary, but very painful to recover from. My
days of delivering babies are over. I am beginning a new job working with developmentally disabled adults and am happy at
this time to courageously face this new phase of my life; what I call my crone - hood.
Thank you for visiting this
site. I plan to update my blog and photo pages soon.
This website is dedicated to my father Patrick Thomas Rauen, who passed away Feb 7, 2005. I miss him dearly and am
erecting a memorial site in his honor. I am so grateful that in the last years of his life we had the opportunity to grow
close and begin to understand each other. The link is posted below.
My original website is still up and linked to pages of this site. I have not been able to access it to edit or update
it. HOLLEY"S HOLLOW 1 contains a lot of good stuff: Photography, Midwifery Pages, Ancestry Research and the "Earth and Spirit"
pages.
