6 months of the year we welcome artists into our home as Cassilhaus artists-in-residence. We started our 2011 season on March 1 with wonderful artist and dear friend Ann Ehringhaus. Ann is an extraordinary artist/photographer, proprietress of Oscar’s House B&B on Ocracoke Island, Reiki Teaching Master, Minister, Healer, and all around amazing human. Both Ellen and I got to know Ann independently by staying at her B&B. I have know her for probably 25 years.
Ann only had two weeks with us and it went by in a blur. She was at Cassilhaus to work on her current book project: Surviving the Fantasy: 13 Insights into (B&B) Happiness, and she shared a reading at the end of her stay. Since one of her main "survival" strategies has been self-care, she led us in exploring together some key acupressure points for body awareness and enhanced health. Almost everyone in the crowd had stayed with Ann on Ocracoke and it was a moving evening of common experience. The most frequent comment was that the book had a much more universal audience than the Bed and Breakfast community. We understand there might be a few more insights added after her stay...Ann it was pure joy to have you here.
Our niece Erin (in blue) was visiting from St. Louis and got to experience some of her crazy Aunt and Uncle's life as well as explore Durham and Chapel Hill.
For in the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.
Baba Dioum
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