Dec. 24, 2021

the listen to sleep waterfall

Did you know that the artwork on the Listen To Sleep episodes is based on a real place here on the mountain? It's a waterfall that's a 10 minute walk from our cabin.

I've been photographing it for years and it's one of my favorite spots to swim in the summer. Over the last 15 winters it's changed quite a bit. This year, all the rain we've had has made it extra dramatic.

I feature it in a lot of my videos on TikTok. You can see it in a couple I posted this week answering folks' questions about living in the country.

I post a lot of videos from around the cabin on TikTok.

Say hi if you're there too.

Erik Ireland

Storyteller & Certified Mindfulness Teacher

Not Irish at all, I'm first generation Norwegian American, and a bit of an extroverted recluse. You'll usually find me in Northern California at the tiny off-grid cabin I share with my husband Joe, our good dog Bodhi, and a black cat named Ninja and his tabby sister Ashi.

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