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Another full moon arrived yesterday! This one raps out the message that a new rhythm is required. The winds are changing. The leaves are falling. Resources are waning. There has to be a new way – full of ease and aptitude and love — a …
I’m never more relaxed than I am when I have a brush in my hand. I love pushing paint, love its smell, and even feel more at home in my skin when it’s dotted with latex spots and marks. HOWEVER As I paint primer onto …
I have been finding feathers, but more on that later. . . Besides a keen eye for collecting, what other messages does Crow bring us? According to Jamie Sams and David Carson in Medicine Cards, “You must put aside your fear of being a voice …
A Sweater For James A week ago it came to me Soon two years ol our James will be I’ll make a sweater like his eyes Blue as Whitman County skies I knitted early, I knitted late I got it done at any rate. Pickles …
It’s a new episode of the Woolgathering Podcast! In this month’s podcast, we are welcoming September and the beginning of Fall. In this seventh episode of the second season, Sweetheart, an orphaned bunny, learns a better way to search for her family. Listen here:
Last Sunday, it was a joy to gather our first Earth Hearts Circle at Spring Bird. This was the first time leading a workshop with my Mom, which was a complete delight and pleasure! The afternoon flew by as we engaged all of our five …
Got any good bat stories? I have one that involves a bat encounter while on vacation in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and includes a series of rabies shots for my daughter Penelope. And yes, while bats can be rabid, they’re usually harmless to us. …
Well, the moon may be waning, but I still wanted to honor this month’s full moon. I decided to honor the juvenile red tail hawk who has been crying piercing and shrill shrieks. There were a couple of weeks where he’d cry incessantly. It was …
Ooooh! Look at this bowl of tomatillos! We’ve been fortunate to have some healthy and productive tomatillo plants this year. Summer is the Season of Salsa!!! We have two favorite recipes (one green and one roasted red) that we learned while we (Patrick and I) …
In this month’s podcast, we are welcoming August and the end of Summer. In this sixth episode of the second season, Sweetheart, an orphaned bunny, gets caught in the rain and learns about a possible and scary reason for the disappearance of her family. Listen …
This was a project I shared in the Summer Issue of Woolgathering. They were meant to be bells, but the ceramic wasn’t resonant enough. So, they are dreamy sea creature mobile creations. I used air dry clay, which I sealed with a varnish and other …
Greenhouse update! We’re finishing up the exterior of our greenhouse – which is now technically a brown house. We painted it a grey-brown to match the house and to disappear into the landscape. This week, Pat began preparing for the stairs by mounting a board …
I’ve been wanting (so badly) to get better at telling stories with words and images and image-words. AND THEN – I want to tell/show stories about my relationship with nature — and stories representing myself as nature. So — Here is a stab! I want …
