you are sacred
The rooster crows indignant of the stifling heat and humidity that is already billowing in through open windows of the old farm house. He seems to be daring the day into being, his mighty crow a lusty, bring it on dare. I, on the other hand, am not feeling so bold this morning, longing for…
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Golden light stretches its gentle fingers over the pastures this morning as dew dances delightfully diamond like over the tall grass. The windows are still open with cool moisture streaking down, saturating wooden panes. The week begins as usual, with a list of to-do’s a mile long. Such is my life. Regardless of lists and things…
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Your Body is a Temple. The body is the house of our soul, the sacred temple that we get to live this one wild and wondrous life in. It is a magnificent gift. I invite you to explore the connection between how you feel internally, with what you are choosing to consume, the link between food…
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The day broke strong and bright signaling the beginning of the weekend. Warm humidity of melting snow permeated the air, and stirrings within me suggested strongly the possibility of the maple trees awakening, sap running. Gathering my brace, hammer, and a few taps in my vest pocket, I stepped out into the melting snow, feeling the crystalline crunch…
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Our full moon gathering of wild chaga yielded abundance that we are now processing into useable forms of chaga, for tea, for tincture/extraction, as well as skin preparations. Wild chaga is very dense, hard, and much like the wood it grows upon, and does not break down easily. This is how we chose to work…
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Damp fall air. Cool and moist a mist falling quietly on and off as the morning stretched herself into day. I tied on my moccasins, the ones I was gifted for Christmas from my loving man and boys, who knew how much I loved them and how they spoke to my soul. Fringed, supple, bold, I…
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“Every woman who heals herself helps heal all the women who came before her and all those who will come after.” -DR. CHRISTIANE NORTHRUP Wood smoke puffs thick gray from the chimney stack outside the window on the homestead this morning. Frost gently graces ground as roosters crow their morning song in the first glow…
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Rain intermittently spatters on window panes, as fat drops cling desperate to branches only to be snatched away by gusts of icy wind. Gratitude fills and warms from within for the deep fall garden. Roots and kept summer squash mingle with darkly vibrant cruciferous vegetables creating a rainbow of color that is the deep fall…
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Deep fall when leaves have left their precarious perches high above heads, making their journey back to the earth, after the color, the vibrancy, the autumnal glow is fading, is the time to gather wild rosehips. The hard frost has been upon the homestead steadily for over a week now. Breaking through ice that freezes thick on water troughs…
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There is a connection with how we choose to nourish our bodies to both our energy levels and vibrancy. When we eat beautiful whole foods, we have more energy to live and enjoy life and do the work we are called to do. We radiate health and wellbeing both inwardly and outwardly. In contrast when we…
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wendy snobl 