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Full Moon: Play With Juncos

Full Moon: Play With Juncos

Happy Full Moon! This moon, I celebrate one of my most favorite birds ever! It’s the Junco or Snow Bird. These sweet babies have dark feathers and white bellies that look like they’ve dipped themselves in snow. Plus they make the loveliest footprints on my 

Winter Casserole

Winter Casserole

What’s your favorite Winter casserole to prepare and share?  We like making this Squash Gratin with poblanos and cream from Food and Wine by Julie Robles. It’s rich, delicious, and decadent – which is what I like in a winter casserole.  I shared this recipe 

Butterfly Effect

Butterfly Effect

Life is strange sometimes. My Mom and I were discussing this photo a few weeks ago. We knew it existed but not where it dwelled. My sister found it in an album she’d assembled for a school project decades ago.  Some of you might remember 

Wintering

Wintering

“Everybody winters at one time or another; some winter over and over again. Wintering is a season in the cold. It is a fallow period in life when you’re cut off from the world, feeling rejected, sidelined, blocked from progress, or cast into the role 

Earth Heart’s “Shelter and Conserve” Workshp

Earth Heart’s “Shelter and Conserve” Workshp

Yesterday’s Earth Heart’s Workshop was a delight! – a rosy balm on a cold, grey day!  After a warm beginning around the firepit, participants gathered from the woods: greens, sticks, berries, and other natural things to attach to their own winter wreath.  These wreaths are 

December’s Woolgathering Podcast

December’s Woolgathering Podcast

It’s a new episode of the Woolgathering Podcast! In this month’s podcast, we are welcoming December and the beginning of winter.  In this tenth episode of the second season, Sweetheart, an orphaned bunny, gets stuck in the snow with her new friend Stan and learns 

Just A Duck

Just A Duck

Just a duck with a wreath around its neck. Poor thing! This was a rejected sticker idea for the upcoming Winter Woolgathering Issue – which mails out today!!! (so excited!) Coincidentally, I’ve been working on wreath examples for Sunday’s Earth Hearts Workshop. We are going 

Rest and Relax

Rest and Relax

Wishing everyone a restful weekend with plenty of quilts and naps! Speaking of rest and taking care of our energy, we have a few spots available at our next workshop: Shelter and Conserve! Join us December 5th, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm, as we prepare 

Mushroom and Gourd Rattles

Mushroom and Gourd Rattles

In the fall issue of  Woolgathering, my quarterly magazine about the seasons and our intimate connection to nature, I shared a tutorial for making these Mushroom and Gourd Rattles. I used takeout containers to shape the mushrooms and plastic Easter eggs for the gourds. I 

Let’s Dream Moon

Let’s Dream Moon

Squirrel!

Squirrel!

This morning something caught my attention out of the corner of my eye. It was a plucky squirrel plunging downwards on a willowy branch like a bungee jumper dangling from a bridge. Just as I suspected, another fluffy tailed friend prepped for the same, daring 

German Cabbage and Potato Soup

German Cabbage and Potato Soup

A family friend made this comforting soup when my Grandma passed, and I have continued to make it every Fall. For a vegetarian option, I’ve subbed vegetable broth for chicken broth and cooked the sausage on the side (for the meat eaters). Try it, share 

November’s Episode of the Woolgathering Podcast

November’s Episode of the Woolgathering Podcast

It’s a new episode of the Woolgathering Podcast! In this month’s podcast, we are welcoming November and the final weeks of Fall. In this ninth episode of the second season, Sweetheart, an orphaned bunny, ventures beyond the known woods with the help of a new 

Ancestral Support

Ancestral Support

In her book “The Wreckage of My Presence,” Casey Wilson shared a message she had received from the beyond about our loved ones who have died. I’m paraphrasing. but it was something to the effect of, “The dead are okay, it’s the living who are