The Happy Peasant

As February sleeps on, the sky remains a steady color of grey. But indoors, we create warm centers of Life around the fire and bring each other mugs of steaming teas and coffees.  It is the ...

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Late summer fruits and gifts from the trees... There is that tail end, a snippet, of seasons that is tacked on at the end of any lengthy stay of weather, that begs us to say, "when will the ...

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A little chart for you to print, and hang inside your cupboard door. If you are 'new' to herbal medicine, this is a good little thing to have to get you started and to 'build' your apothecary. ...

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Clarissa Pinkola Estes   ABRE LA PUERTA Her name is Hope and she’s 12 years old, going on 20 to life. She is god at 5 feet tall. Abre la Puerta, open the door and let her in, give ...

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Today, while on my daily run around the countryside and the old dirt roads in the glorious autumn sun, and leaf spinning wind, I spotted a beautiful languid Red Tailed Hawk. She was soaring on th...

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NORTH BIMINI, BAHAMAS, JULY 2012

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ONCE YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH THE SEA, THERE IS NO UNDOING YOUR LOVE.

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I have been absent from my blog for some time. Well, actually since this past winter when I had an unfriendly visit from Ms. Pneumonia. She took up most of my winter and when I was free of her ...

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IT APPEARS SPRING HAS DECIDED TO SHOW HER BEAUTIFUL FACE EARLY, AND IN FULL FORTE' FORCE, HERE IN MICHIGAN. WEEKS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE SHE ARRIVED AND WENT FROM FLOWER TO FLOWER, BRANCH TO BRANCH,...

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WITH THE COLD LONG WINTER NIGHTS UPON US, AND THE TUCKING AWAY OF THE HOLIDAYS, WE FIND TIME TO REST, THINK AND RENEW.  WE ARE GIFTED WITH A PLAINLY WRAPPED PACKAGE OF THE NEW YEAR, READY F...

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WHAT KEEPS ME AWAKE AT NIGHT ~That the written word will be lost as we sit and type all our deepest thoughts on our blogs and emails.(I am just as guilty) ~That the beauty of secret journ...

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This Thanksgiving, may the peaceful quiet of the leafless trees  and the nesting animals smile down on you,  and give you rest, and pause.  May your thanks be for blessings, happiness ...

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Black walnut day in October.  Rain in peaty browns. Rivulets on top of leaves.  Black walnuts, ready.   Air so cold,  fingertips feel numb.  Black walnut day, in October.

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If...if you had told me ten years ago that I would one day be calling a vet to come out to the farm and perform ultrasounds on goats...I would have laughed you off the face of this planet. But, t...

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The sun is the protagonist today...playing front and center in the autumn warmth, Indian Summer. Ladybugs are out in droves, landing on arms and face, biting sometimes. It is okay; we soak up the...

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So very busy, this autumn season is. With apples, cider, harvest, school. Too much, really. My writing has been scarce. The words roll around in my mind, waiting for my feet to stop and to be put...

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And so, September has arrived. I have said it before, but, the changing of these seasons..? Summer, she reminds me of a beautiful visitor from afar packing her bags to leave us after so many lov...

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TASHA TUDOR WAS A TRADITIONALIST AND YET, TASHA TUDOR WAS A REVOLUTIONARY. ~  ~~~~~ "WHAT?", YOU SAY..."TASHA, A REVOLUTIONARY?".  YES. YOU SEE, WHILE SHE CHOSE TO LIVE AS THOUGH SHE WERE I...

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Today, August 28, 2011, is Tasha Tudor Day! In honor of the birthday of the beloved illustrator and author, Tasha Tudor. Please take a moment today, to join us in remembering Tasha's beautiful a...

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A while back I was so happy to stumble across a beautiful and charming publication called The Feminine Home Magazine. This magazine was FILLED with romantic pages the likes of the (o...

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A honey customer stopped on our porch today to chat for a while. She asked me if I knew that when Basil seeds out at the end of the summer that you can 'gather' the seeds by drying the basil and...

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THIS IS A PICTURE OF OUR DAUGHTER, GLEEFULLY SPRINTING OFF A DOCK INTO THE LAKE... 8-YEAR-OLD-PURE-UNBRIDLED-JOY STYLE! MAY YOUR SUMMER BE THIS FULL OF SPONTANEOUS HAPPINESS AND SPLASHING ...

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It is so hot here in Michigan (100 degrees right now) that you could fry an egg on the sidewalk (my dad used to tell me that when he was a boy in Baghdad, this was so...and I've loved this phrase...

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I have been craving a huge gallon glass jar filled to the top with sweet flower petals, strong iced black tea and herbs, so...I made some. I went into the yard and garden and gathered organic ros...

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