The last few months, damn, am I right? The Astrologers say that 2020 is the year to start anew, to work with your blank canvas. This resonates for me on so many levels. They also say that this will not be easy, that the karma from your past will play little tricks on you, pushing…
Author: Donata
Me is constantly changing. Who knows who me is anymore?! What I know is that I am a happy house witch, in a secular sense, not as a devoted coven dweller. I love cooking, gardening, preserving, mothering, herb crafting, potion making, and I LOVE words!
52 Week Hiking Challenge
I have signed up for a 52 Week Hiking challenge! I have learned that I need #prompts for all things: reading, writing, parenting, learning, cooking, and definitely with fitness. I was looking for the perfect way to get my booty out of my house and hiking would be just the thing. I wasn’t quite sure…
At the dinner table (a #privilege)
(Normal Rockwell’s “Freedom From Want” . Wikipedia.) I have always revered the picture by Norman Rockwell titled “Freedom From Want”. This idyllic experience of dining together, in times of plenty, epitomized what a family dinner should look like to me. A family, sitting at the table, together, safe and secure in a space full of familial…
A Creative Prompt
In reverence to the #writing prompt, I must share the favorite prompt that I have received thus far in my writing workshop history. My current professor of all things poetics (Check out the Poetry Vlog) posed this prompt to us one day: Create A Playlist For How You Feel When You’re Writing Wow, I thought,…
#I Do My #BestWriting When I’m #Procrastinating: #writingprompt
#Writing Prompt: We’ve all seen it, a whole #post of #hashtags, that somehow in our #soundbite laden #reality seem to make #totalsense. It’s #poetry, in essence. I made a #post #today, full of #hashtags #ofcourse, on #Instagram. I was #completelyamazed at the enormous #variety of #hashtags that #exist and how #often they are #used. And…
An Art Docent Project
While pursuing my degree I consistently dealt with the impostor syndrome that I developed at the young age of 12 (another story for another time). This was especially evident in my art and art history classes. I felt so unworthy of being in art museums and galleries and presenting my own art for critique. I…
Eating on The Run?
Eating on the run is not something I’m experienced at. I’m typically afforded long days of home and garden tasks intermingled with self-care (which you’d think I’d be better at!) and have ample time for quiet un-interrupted lunches. I do know, though, that when at work or school or home with little people, that the…
Garden Thoughts…on Mothering
I had these thoughts, the thoughts below, while gardening away one day. Who knew that digging in the dirt for the end of a taproot could lead to such eloquent inquiry; very much the same way that Tarot reading does for me or the way reading a bible verse of the day may do for…
Zucchini, oh that mega producer
If you garden in the Maritime Pacific Northwest, you probably plant Zucchini every year. And every year you just might be tempted to try different varieties and every year you may end up with more than one zucchini plant and every year you might forget just how much zucchini one plant will produce and you…
