is dedicated to gratitude. As it should be, every American should be thankful for the Indigenous folk who saved their starving fundamentalist fannies so that the culture could grow and weed out those who helped in their time of dire need. So, many get together and re-envision what that gratitude could look like now —Continue reading “The 4th Thursday of Every November…”
Author Archives: Rachael M Rollson
Duendesday: ‘doll-world’
{life with a curious and crazy 13 yr old} Since she was a wee one, Duende has always made her own mind about her toys. We foster imaginative toys and we don’t buy plastic so she creates her own little worlds. She didn’t care for dolls when she was smaller, except a couple of stuffyContinue reading “Duendesday: ‘doll-world’”
Tuesday Happenings: Catching up
The chill is in the air. The bee balm seed heads sway with frost, the leaves on the peach trees are finally giving up, the witch hazel has had her last bloom for the season. We’ve shucked the beans (such glorious beans — Doloff, Purple Podded Pole, and True Red Cranberry Pole Beans), dried Calendula,Continue reading “Tuesday Happenings: Catching up”
Another Monday already, another muse
Early Frost BY Scott Cairns This morning the world’s white face reminds usthat life intends to become serious again.And the same loud birds that all summer longannoyed us with their high attitudes and chattersilently line the gibbet of the fence a little stunned,chastened enough. They look as if they’re waiting for thingsto grow worse, but areContinue reading “Another Monday already, another muse”
Monday’s Musing
{book at hand, random page} Claims of the freedom advocates, like all other claims, are subject to the rule of reason. There is no such thing as a free person in the strict meaning of the term. Basic to human life are the drastic limitations inherent in the structure and functioning of the human organism.Continue reading “Monday’s Musing”
Happenings — Not Happenings
Samhain is generally a time of renewal, of connecting with our ancestors for strength and knowledge in the ‘waking world’. But this waking world is asleep, adrift. It is hard today to contemplate the connection of all things (in time, space, ecology…) but the new chill helps to pull our thoughts and people close. MyContinue reading “Happenings — Not Happenings”
Friday in Pictures: Out, out, out
{let the images tell you a story}
Recipe Thursday: Stuffed Poblanos
This wonderful amalgamation is brought to you by the beautiful late-season peppers populating Andrews Farm here in Gardiner. Our jalapenos have come and gone but they are resplendent in sweet long red, yellow, and orange peppers (whose name I do not know), green chilis (graciously and mostly for us!), and poblanos. As other crops haveContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Stuffed Poblanos”
Duendesday: Life learning
{life with a curious and crazy 13 yr old} What has this gal been up to? Mushroom walks and apple picking, for sure — my little Ronja–, but also pottery class and crochet: getting her craft on. At home Duende is making hand-painted beautiful-3D paper flowers, she designed a whole layout of doll dresses inContinue reading “Duendesday: Life learning”
A Muse for Monday
Grandmother in the Garden ~ Louise Gluck The grass below the willowOf my daughter’s wash is curledWith earthworms, and the worldIs measured into row on rowOf unspiced houses, painted to seem real.The drugged Long Island summer sun drainsPattern from those empty sleeves, beyond my grandsonSquealing in his pen. I have survived my life.The yellow daylightContinue reading “A Muse for Monday”
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