I thought I would post this here to help explain a little about what meditative art is and how it helps for those that are new to this idea!
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Herbs For Chickens
Making a vinegar extract for my chickens today. Oregano, Thyme and Sage in apple cider vinegar to add to their water and keep their immune systems strong.
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Cleansing and Nourishing Herbal Remedies
Dandelion, nettles, oat straw, cleavers and calendula. 🌱✌️❤️ it’s my maintenance formula for myself. To keep my liver moving strong, nourish me with minerals, and restore my nervous system.
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Adjusting to Change
Why is adjusting to change so difficult at times when we are naturally adaptable creatures? The process I am sure is intentional. We fight against the pain, tension, and simply being uncomfortable with the unknown.
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Paths and Vessels
We are all on a path. And each of us is a vessel. We all have our daily and life long struggles. Join me in learning to live outside survival mode, looking to the ways of our ancestors, our children and the earth to find balance, and to thrive.
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Birthday
Today marks another year older for me. At this transitional point in my life this milestone reminds me of how much time I was immersed in the last chapter. I feel as if I am coming out of a cave. Everything is new and beautiful but the light is too bright and the wind is cold.
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Balancing Act
It's a bit of a balancing act isn't it. Half the time if not more I feel like I'm about to fall. But really what's the big deal if I do I suppose. Just get my ass back up and keep going! ;)
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She is Still Here
And for the moment, she is still here. One of my favorite dilapidated old houses I pass on my way to everywhere. She's tiny and dark and looks so sad. But she is one of the most beautiful sights I see around here.
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Empath
I am an all in kinda person usually. I feel things strongly, I love deeply, I work harder than I should. In many ways I am glad this is who I am. It allows me to accomplish and experience things I might not otherwise. It allows me to risk more than some too. But many times, the world around me does not reciprocate.
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Judgement
Often we don't understand the way people around us are behaving. They don't respond the way we expect them too, they make choices that baffle us, we perceive their behaviors as crazy or hurtful. We ask what the heck is wrong with them?!
Perspective Shift
Perspective is an amazing thing. One moment we can see a situation or person in a beautiful light with hope, admiration or maybe even expectations. Then in almost an instant at times it can shift. Something may be revealed we were not aware of, a new behavior we have never witnessed.
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Passion + Vices
Passion for something and someone you love are amazing gifts, and I feel are an imperative part of life. It's easy to lose however as we get swept up by the everyday life: the necessities, the routine, the pulls from all directions.
I am starting to realize that when I am unable to experience passion I start to feel a pull towards my vices to fill that space.
Run
Running full on into the unknown with nothing more than a sense of adventure, faith and a desire for the simplest form of joy. I look to her to remind me daily that I am not in control anyway...so why not run.
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Pushing to Contentment
I push through the seemingly endless cobwebs. Beyond them I'm sure there is a scene filled with entangled plants and fog thicker than I've ever seen. I will have no idea what's beyond it and I won't care. I'll be content with just the beauty right in front of me. I swear I will.
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Slowing Down
Driving down the road my 4 year old impatiently asks over and over how long til we get there. A twenty minute drive is an eternity in her world when all she wants is to be there having fun with her friends already and not strapped in a boring car.
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See You Through
Sometimes you can just see enough color through the fog to keep you going....
Foraging
This is a bowl with things Fiona found foraging for fall and exploring around her nature preschool. She explores and collects constantly with so much passion. The bowl sits on our 1850s farm table reminding me of what life used to be like. The effort it took just to get through a day and have a meal. The work involved in just simply surviving. Today I think the work in surviving is much more emotional than it is physical. Constant noise bombarding us every day. So much to process. Take a moment to be quiet, to forage, or simply enjoy how easy it is to have a good meal. Tag someone you would like to have a meal with and make it happen.
Home Sweet Home
Home sweet home. I love mornings like this out here. The leaves are starting to fall off and soon I will be surrounded by the tall graceful stark trunks on all sides. While I love the colorful blanket of fall there is something about the starkness of winter that has a certain romance to it. What's your favorite season?
Tea and Mood
I gathered up my herbs and such to make my tea today. It is cool, wet and dreary outside which I love, but bittersweet today because seems to echo my mood. I am going through some pain right now, the pain of a loss greater that I have ever felt before. This is grief. Almost every part of me wants to find a distraction, something to numb it or to pretend it is not there. I wave in and out of letting the avoidance take over and the necessity of allowing myself to walk through it. It is exhausting but I know for sure that God will bring me to a peace and warmth on the other side. So my tea today is chamomile, orange and ginger. Chamomile to calm my grief induced anxiety. Ginger to add spice and tame my nervous stomach. And sweet orange because well, it just makes me happy. The taste and smell always has. So as I sit and drink my tea staring at the drooping but vibrant wet leaves through the window, I take a moment to step outside my sorrow and be grateful. Is it gloomy where you are?
Morning Fog
Here's to running out the door with my camera before even putting a bra on, getting chased down the street by an angry dog, and making friends with a cow before 9am. Good morning y'all!