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Oh what fun we made this past Sunday at our Earth Hearts’ Let Go and Arrive Workshop! Even though we had some rain, there was ample time to gather around the fire and wander in the woods before making ancestor dolls from honeysuckle roots, natural …
The season of leaf collages! It’s so beautiful to walk around and see the work that nature has created on my path just for me to see! This illustration comes from the postcard that I included in the Fall Issue of Woolgathering, Spring Bird’s quarterly, …
All month long, Spring Bird has received very special guests — flocks of migrating birds! In a matter of minutes, the woods are overcome with the chatter and flutter of migrating robins, grackles, and other birds who stop to rest, eat, and chatter before moving …
My Earth Body, or at least one concept of it! This illustration is from Woolgathering, Spring Bird’s quarterly, adfree magazine about the seasons and our deep connection to nature. If you would like to learn more about Woolgathering and to subscribe visit here – where …
Jack Skellington or a Giant Puffball Mushroom? Unfortunately it’s the latter, but I would like to think that all of the puffball mushrooms are actually macabre doll heads sprouting up like cabbage patch dolls. After we have received some much needed rain, the puffball mushrooms …
We are nature. We do not hold dominion over Nature. Nature is not for us to use up or to abuse. Because Nature is Us, and We are Nature, Loving Nature is self love, and when we abuse Nature, it’s self harm.
It’s a new episode of the Woolgathering Podcast! In this month’s podcast, we are welcoming October and the height of Fall. In this eighth episode of the second season, Sweetheart, an orphaned bunny, receives a vision from an unlikely source. Listen here: [#imagedescription: An illustration …
Months of drought have encouraged the leaves to drop early this fall. I say goodbye to the canopy and hello to the leaves fallen afoot. On the ground they become accessible and collectible as they collage our pathways. Writer Maria Carvalho wrote about them in …
Dear Friends, Peg and I are inviting you to join us in celebrating Fall at the upcoming Earth Heart’s Workshop. Come play with us in the woods as we let go of all that doesn’t serve while finding our place in nature. Having come into …
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 …
