Reading: Hima Batavia #68 – on creative space

H 5/13/2022 I can't remember how I stumbled across her, but I attended Hima's virtual gathering at the turn of the year to 2022 on "Collective Dreaming". I still cannot articulate how powerful and moving it was and how the words and intentions have both grounded and expanded me in...

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May 11, 2022 Stones

[envira-gallery id='12170'] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Kh8fysr4o

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May 6, 2022 Flowers

[envira-gallery id='12085'] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn7fAnP5-HU

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May 4, 2022 Renewal

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April Food Garden Notes

Our little feline gardener assistant watching over all the seedlings. That was one of many cool things of note from this month... April 2 - ​Preparing the beds S went and got a truckload full of “soil amender” (turns out it’s compost)Very economical. The bags of compost from a garden...

April 30, 2022 0

Homemade Vinegar – Bottling

Followup on our experimentation of making fruit vinegar at home. How it started and progress notes in previous journal entries. February 19, 2022 Day 1 of alcohol fermentation. Moving From Alcohol Fermentation to Vinegar FermentationMarch 12, 2022 Day 1 of vinegar fermentation April 27, 2022 BottledTaste test / notes Grape - tasted like a...

April 28, 2022 0

Bellingham (Land of the Lhaq ‘temish – People of the Sea)

A magical weekend visiting friends in Bellingham WA, traditional land of the Lummi Nation (also called Lhaq ‘temish - People of the Sea). As with much of what we call the Pacific Northwest, this is the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples. For thousands of years, the Lummi, Nooksack,...

April 25, 2022 0

Now I Dream of Motherhood As Water

Been sitting with thoughts of motherhood, the divine feminine, home, lineage and the like. On a whim, opened my heart and calendar up to committing to Putting The Creative In A Creative Nonfiction Memoir. It felt right to take this course now when I saw it pop up on the...

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April 16, 2022 – Food Garden Planting 

[envira-gallery id='9432'] Beds are ready for planting, so we went to the house to plant direct sow seeds as well as transplant the vegetables we started indoors with grow lights. Exciting! It may be a bit early for some of the plants, but we're rolling the dice. If not, we...

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