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Continue reading →: Summer, Summer, Summertime
And just like that, it was time for lavender, strawberries, and rose.
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Continue reading →: The Liminal Space Between Mother and Crone=Grief
My home is empty now, a bereft nest. As empty as my aging womb. Rooms once full of life are now empty ruins. knick knacks scattered on dusty furniture toppled over onto floors. hanging plants, dead dust bunnies little piles of dog hair linger in the rooms a stagnant smell…
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Continue reading →: 51 notes to myself for my 51st year.
Written 8/15/25, taking a good look through it again as I’m half way through to 52. Publish something already, anything, really, just something, anywhere, here, even… (check!) maybe stop using elipses??? (getting better…check!) Do not hesitate to visit the rivers, oceans, streams, places, or people. With time all is subject…
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Continue reading →: The Devil, Blackberries, and Me
This summer I was treated to a reading with the Herbcrafter’s Tarot. The card drew for me was Blackberry. The reader asked what the card brought up for me. I immediately thought of my struggle with the Blackberries in my yard. How they spread and overtook garden beds. How they…
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