Let me just say that it is a a huge privilege to be Mama to such awesome boys as the ones who showed up in my womb. Wanting babies was something that came to me early. As luck would have it, while still pretty young I shacked up with a great guy who was interested in being a…
Category: Holidays
This is where it all starts, just come as you are.
The wheel of the year goes round and round, round and round… Looking out at the emerging leaves and watching the song birds gather bits and pieces for their nests it is with some amazement that I have to realize that it is already May. Spring always seems like it ought to be the beginning…
Good Bye 2016 -Will Auld Acquaintance be Forgot?
What a year. What a wild transformative journey 2016 has been for us all collectively. Even now people in New Zealand and Australia have already passed the threshold into 2017, a threshold that is moving across the globe as we speak. As we look back and look forward we have two tales to tell ourselves….
Broody Hens
We have been keeping chickens for nearly ten years. These days we have three large hens, and a whole mess of bantams. This fall three of the bantams were broody – one successfully hatched 4 chicks, and the other two spent their time arguing over who got to sit on a golf ball. Which made me wonder, am I…
Halloween, Samhain, Dia de los Muertos
To my ancestors we are in an important moment in the year. As we descend into the darkness of winter, the ancient Celts had a three day period of time-out-of-time, days not considered part of the normal calendar. This is the space to get your affairs in order, pay debts and follow through. On Samhain –…
World Peace Day – Pray for Sacred Lands.
“To us, as caretakers of the heart of Mother Earth, falls the responsibility of turning back the powers of destruction. You yourself are the one who must decide. You alone – and only you – can make this crucial choice, to walk in honor or to dishonor your relatives. On your decision depends the fate…
Call of the Wild
Labor Day weekend. Wow, seems like the summer flew by. Last week we traveled up into the edge of Olympic National Park to camp a few days, and then rushed back so I could meet up with my friend Amy to spend a few days in the Cascades at Breitenbush. 18 hours of driving to…
Daring Excursions
My last post was on Cinco de Mayo when Joe and I had a beautiful walk in the woods, which were green and bursting with spring lushness. Since then I have been making slow progress on my 2015 intentions, specifically the massive house reorder a’ la Marie Kondo. My weeks are divided between working at the…
Tree Baths
The last week has been so very beautiful. I hope that all of you have been soaking up sun or taking tree baths. (Tree baths are a Japanese idea of hanging out with trees as a healing modality – basically walking amongst trees breathing the air made by trees.) A year ago this week, the Family Daire loaded…
A Bigger Piece of Sky
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Christmas Eve we were the happy recipients of Carolers- who braved our treacherous steps to come into our house to sing and be offered Wassail treats. Christmas coincided with the ebbing of the more acute chemo side effects- which meant we spent Christmas day playing, & being happy-…
Winter lights
Martin picked out a little noble fir tree from the friendly older couple on Claremont Road. We enjoyed talking with the chainsaw-weilding woman, who is also a bakery owner – hers is in Warrenton. We talked about the recent cold snap, frozen water pipes, and her Cherokee heritage. Joe’s upbringing in the Texas panhandle made a…
Riding the Pooka 