excerpt from Moon Days

* 3 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
* 4 - 6 cups water, chicken or vegetable stock
* 3 - 4 cloves garlic, minced

* 1 cup thick persimmon pulp (seeds strained out)
* 2 eggs, beaten
* 1 cup sugar

Living creatively is a dynamic act.

Creative living is sensual and sensory, playful and powerful…

To be an artist of life, to live a creative life introduces us to our true selves, the aspects we know well and those we have hidden behind or are not yet known.

1 medium onion, peeled and chopped

4 cloves garlic, minced

3 Tablespoons butter

Anyone who has walked through the forests of the southeast has encountered Usnea, but you might not have noticed it. You probably didn't know that the inconspicuous gray-green fuzzy stuff covering many of the trees is one of the gentlest yet strongest immune tonics in the herb world.

Re-membering by Kim Kitchen

Ancient matriarchal cultures worshipped the earth as a Goddess, deeply honouring their ‘Great Mother’ for her awesome powers of birth, death and renewal.

Years ago, my day began with the sound of an alarm clock, the rush of morning dressing and breakfast and the continuous worry of getting to where I needed to be or getting others to where they needed to be.

I love honey and I love the honeybees. I have lived for a good number of years with a bee yard right outside my kitchen window. Watching the bees is such a delight and enjoying their sweet gifts in my food and medicine has offered nourishment to my everyday life.

excerpt from Travelers Joy

The treatments for both these traveling discomforts are similar: that is, soothing damaged skin surface and curing any damaged internal tissues. Sunburn is more harmful than windburn and severe burning can even cause skin cancer.

When planning long travels far from shops, there is a selection of basic foods which can be taken along, all long-keeping and light in weight. They should be packed individually in brown paper bags, not in plastic, and then finally in a water-proof rucksack.

She arrived about a month ago, making herself at home before I even knew she was here. This rusty brown spider and her grand spiral web settled in just beyond my bedroom window.