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 andContinue reading “Tuesday Happens. Winter is for…”
Category Archives: Happenings
Happenings: Bringing in a new year
We have had a wonderful time to be together this Winter Solstice — we did many of the things we set out to do; relax, clean up the house a bit and get into the studio, eat biscuits with jam (and marmalade — thank you to the beautiful bread members who shared their Autumn OliveContinue reading “Happenings: Bringing in a new year”
Tuesday Happenings: Winter Solstice on the way!
We are generally trapped by the dominant paradigm of colonialist/commercialist (because the Santa you know and love is a coca-cola marketing campaign) racist/sexist/homophobic ‘holidays’ that seem to permeate the last couple of months of the year. I know, I know, we’ve been told we don’t have any christmas spirit (and you are right, nor doContinue reading “Tuesday Happenings: Winter Solstice on the way!”
Tuesday: Question all Happenings
When we first moved to our home in ruralish Maine, a lot of folks asked why — we didn’t seem like we were the homesteading type. Which means they didn’t really know us, but sure, at that point we had lived in a lot of cities, big and small. But it was time. We wereContinue reading “Tuesday: Question all Happenings”
Tuesday Happenings: Samhain Energies
So many great moon energies to go with our mid-Autumn celebrations; the New Moon on the 1st will re-invigorate our connections. The waning moon feels fitting to me right now, as we ride the wave closer to the line between life and death — almost touching before rebounding, like the space between the inhale andContinue reading “Tuesday Happenings: Samhain Energies”
Autumn Shift
There is certainly a shift to the light lately, and of course, the astrological shift (we’re feeling that a lot) = the seasonal changes. The Ash trees have already let go of all their leaves (we have one in the drive and one by the sugar shack), and the Maples are changing, but the grapesContinue reading “Autumn Shift”
Tuesday Happenings: welcoming the good that comes from the bad…
So, we got a email letter yesterday sent to our website (I’ll share it below because why not…it’s interesting to see people’s words and thinking, but without their name because public shaming people who do not know any better is not our thing) which solidified how we’ve been feeling in this area lately. We knowContinue reading “Tuesday Happenings: welcoming the good that comes from the bad…”
Tuesday Happens: Cosmic Imbalance
It’s been a week for sure. Just when we think we are getting caught up, another wave rolls us over. I haven’t foraged yet this year, and as of today haven’t seen the garden in a week — who knows what’s going on out there?!! If we’re lucky, all the plants are working it out,Continue reading “Tuesday Happens: Cosmic Imbalance”
Tuesday: Recap
It’s been a whirlwind of a weekend, family and friend visitations, a big birthday (whoo hoo!), and a town event (not as big as one would have hoped, but still sizeable). Many hats in many rings (many rings on one hat?). We have survived and are now on our ‘weekend’ which also happens to beContinue reading “Tuesday: Recap”
Tuesday Happenings: New Moves
We’ve got so many good things going on we can barely sit still. The Solstic energy is getting us revved up to have some fun. The homestead is ready to be re-imagined and enjoyed — gardens galore needing wattle fencing, grapes exploding and ready to be trellised, flower garlands and rock patterns dying to beContinue reading “Tuesday Happenings: New Moves”
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