Your Hosts, David Buell & Joanna Pinney Buell
David and his Holi Stone
David Buell first came to Maine from Petersham, Massachusetts in the mid 1960’s with his first wife Liz. They home birthed, home schooled and homesteaded with their two sons and daughter, at the Quarry House under quite rustic conditions. David started a fireworks company here that created products and did local shows. The family later spent winters in Florida where David developed a branch of the Starflight Company making fireworks for the Disney shows. Some of David unique shell designs are still a part of the nightly show at Epcot Center.
David retired from this industry in 1997 with all fingers intact and his employees, the same. David and his sons had done some granite sales and work alongside the fireworks business (and many micro businesses, such as raising salmon, selling Christmas trees…). With fireworks behind him, David put his focus into developing Buell’s Granite.
Joanna with Merlin & Djwhal Khul Stones
Joanna Pinney Buell is from Greenland, New Hampshire, with deep family roots in the NH seacoast area. She was blessed to raise her two sons with their father, Michael Griffin, just a half mile from the house she grew up in, on Great Bay, part of a 9 mile estuary with many similarities to the Taunton Bay estuary. Joanna was 13 years a cosmetologist before entering the field of holistic health, first as a chiropractic assistant and office manager.
David and Joanna first met in 1994 at the home of a mutual friend. Their paths continued to cross over the next couple years. In the fall of 1995, David was a widower and Joanna was divorced. David commenced an old-fashioned courtship with letters and phone calls despite Joanna’s insistence that her parenting of two teenage sons, working weekdays in her holistic bodywork practice, teaching adult ed classes at night and teaching Reiki classes 3 weekends a month–allowed no time for a relationship.
Obviously, David got his foot in the door. After a few years of traveling back and forth between Maine and NH, Joanna moved to Maine and they were married in the stone circle at Light Heart Retreat (for which purpose David built it) on October 9, 1999.
Together Joanna and David have worked to build Light Heart Retreat and Buell’s Granite. Through their joint venture, Home Angels, they’ve rehabbed two troubled properties and transformed them into good, attractive homes in their local community. Joanna has also continued her holistic healing practice in Maine, most recently, as The Dowsing Deva.
David and Joanna share a deep love and respect for Nature. Both have a long-standing commitment, eons old , (according to a spiritual channel) to the stewardship of the 100 acres that makes up Light Heart Retreat. David and Joanna live a life attuned to energy; they are Reiki Masters and dowsers. Their connection to the natural and spiritual realms informs and directs, all aspects of their life together at Light Heart Retreat.
They hold joint intent that each guest of Light Heart Retreat receive the gift of clarity of purpose and that they will have received that which they most need to take their next step in living their unique purpose.
David & Joanna on Retreat on Prince Edward Island
For more on David, see www.buellsgranite.com
For more on Joanna, see www.thedowsingdeva.com
