regrouping, recouping, recharging, taking it slow, hunkering down, tucking in, mending, breathing deep, making new plans — reading plans (50 book Family Challenge), garden plans (seeds — buying, starting, designing), health plans (assessing new concerns, maintenance care), yearly plans (camping, Ren Fests, travels), snuggling, making art (and apparently inspired cardboard constructions), playing board games and listening to records, watching long-winded movies (and maybe fun ones, too), feeling fresh cold air, icicles, seeing the fields clearly, hopefully tapping trees and boiling syrup, remembering how lucky we are (even when we’re not feeling it), remembering loved ones, drinking hot tea/hot broth/hot coffee/hot toddy, fighting colds (with everything we’ve got — elderberry, mullein, usnea, reishi, mint, lemon balm, pine, cinnamon, ginger, garlic, chili, eucalyptus), wearing slippers and sweaters, and taking care of one another in a world that sometimes feels as if it is too overwhelming to do so.
Rock Bottom Homestead 
I just found this young lady and it’s quite wonderful. Saw that you all are not feeling well. I’m sorry to hear this so get better, Mother speaks. Love you all best from beautiful Portugal. Hugs BT Keep writing that’s an order oh and I just finished writing “Rowing to Portugal “ not sure when it’s going to get illustrated my art supplies are Rowing to Portugal in a VW. 💋💋
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