We have been given a special gift, to live beside the magnificent Pacific Ocean, to be citizens of not only one city, but of an emerging Pacific Rim community. Born out of endless eons, the great water looked up and smiled into a blue sky. At night, it held the stars in its ever-moving arm….
James Hubbell’s daily posts from the #TrustLifeProject including drawings and poetry have been compiled into a delightful coloring book for kids of all ages. Dedicated to his granddaughter who missed dressing up for the Easter Parade during this pandemic year, James unloosed his imagination with humorous line drawings and thought provoking poetry in a coloring…
California’s long, dry spell came to an end in 2019 when the rains came, not in floods, but in perfectly timed storms that filled our local lakes and ponds and soaked the hills and mountains. In response, the landscape came alive with grasses and flowers, some which hadn’t been seen for decades. Jim Hubbell was…
By Rebecca Morales, Ph.D. Inspired by a famous myth, James Hubbell wrote “Queen Califia’s Pilgrimage,” a short poem we published in a 2018 issue of Hidden Leaves. At the time Jim mused that the poem could be “an opera, with music, dance, voices—and be open to all kinds of interpretation…Perhaps a school class will perform…