Our first commissioned collection. It feels like such a gift… to me. Claudia, owner of a bulk food/herb/tea shop a town or two away wants us to collect lemon balm & red clover blossoms. Her parents are from Peru
Earth As a Gateway
It seems there is a language that exists, understood by the body to be good and righteous. The simple feeling of wellness, the rising sense of peaceful joy that emanates from the earth below our feet. The feeling of a caring
Gratitude on the side of a mountain
We found the house before June only a week and a half after we started our journey in the car. We found the homestead 980.3 miles after we left home. We panned out what we wanted. We wrote it down
in the land of home: two graces
Tonight Ini & I had a heart council. New Moon in Taurus. Time of earthy, grounded, materialistic beginnings. We follow in the tradition we learned at OUR ecovillage by a teacher from the Ojai Foundation. It opens us up, lets more
Wild Garlic Mustard Pesto with a Bite
Spring is an exciting time for those who like to eat wild leaves. The transition to abundant growth from the state of dormancy is an amazing and uplifting time. A great time to make the first trips to hunt for
haiku phenology: maple leaves & perennials
when maple leaves beginto unfurl wrinkly veined skinplant perennials
the island of amantani, peru & worship of the heart
the temple is like a bowl, a relief, a womb. here pilgrims come again to be held. to cry. to dance. to sing & offer. this is the temple where the original humans who crawled from lake titicaca come to
H OM E Steading!
For years I have talked of “homesteading”. It has been an illusory thing in the future. Well, I come to write tonight to say that the time has come, the time is Now to fully devote myself to this dream
with these hands
with these hands: video our being is surrounded by all of this being and within this being we are with these hands
we are “the way things are”
the eyes of the people there is a fleece, a thin film once removed △ clear sight the film: believe there is a “the way things are” this: proposed on every media main-stream fishes swimming, hooked in “the dream” yet Step