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Today I participated in another of my favorite mindfulness practices, one concerning impermanence, like sand painting but with squashes, already scattered and but a memory. Tomorrow I will fill the slow cooker with leek and potato, celeriac and parsley root, and some imaginal cells to remind me that next summer will unfurl its colorful wings in time. . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ fall crops and late bloomers 
It may take more years of this practice before I can truly feel thankful for darkness, or the meltdown it initiates in me. Simmering in my slow cooker today, I’m grateful for memories of summer, excellent walks with my husband, and butterflies. . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ shadows and butterflies  One comment  abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting  abundance, band, being a mama, books, butterflies, executive function skills, family, gratitude, lifelong learning, light, love, monarchs, music, nana, nature, nourish, ocean, outside, parenting, photography, self care, shadows, sunset, thankful thursday, webs 
why i love spring: metaphors for rebirth literally growing on trees; the mascot for lightness of being zooming past my head each time i walk out my door; the spiraling of life curling outward into the light; and oh, the light! rainbow flash! perhaps inspired by spring, my husband and i are . . . → Read More: ~rainbow mondays~ spiral heart tunnels 4 comments abundance, gratitude, natural world, rainbow mondays abundance, baby, back yard, bayou, beach, cherry blossoms, eagles, family, flowers, forget-me-nots, gratitude, heart-shaped lens, hummingbirds, light, love, nature, nourish, ocean, outside, photography, plants, rainbow mondays, self care, spring, sunset, sunshine, trillium, trout lily 
how does one establish a relationship that is built to last, what with all the ephemerality of the world? the passing of days into memory or forgetting, the hurts and slights that have the potential to erode at what originally connected two people, the quirks and morning breath and neglected leg stubble that could garner . . . → Read More: slope stabilization 
colorless: right around this time of year, things start to feel about like this for me: washed out gray birds in a gray sky flying south without me. my rainbow practice becomes increasingly important for me to strive to do, so i can remember there is actually still a lot of color in the . . . → Read More: ~rainbow mondays~ finding the color 
red: so many apples… red: hard to choose! this one is named chenango strawberry. red: numbered apples awaiting grammy’s careful identification process. red: view of the barn through the apple trees red: all the colors were accented with goldenrod this trip. red: red hot, that is. this amazing . . . → Read More: ~rainbow mondays~ goldenrod, periwinkle, red violet, the whole crayon box a.k.a. mama’s new york rainbow 2 comments abundance, gratitude, natural world, rainbow mondays abundance, apples, around the farm, barn, being a mama, bonfire, butterflies, cousins, family, farm, flowers, food, foraging, goldenrod, grammy and grampy, gratitude, hiking, light, love, nature, new york, nourish, outside, parenting, photography, plants, praying mantis, rainbow mondays 
a double-header of new york rainbows tonight… the first one is brought to you by quinn! we spent lots of time in apple orchard mode while we were visiting new york this time, and quinn chose to document his own rainbow using my camera during one of our excursions to tag, sample, and collect apples . . . → Read More: ~rainbow mondays~ quinn’s new york rainbow Leave a comment abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting, rainbow mondays abundance, apples, around the farm, being a mama, family, flowers, food, foraging, grammy and grampy, gratitude, hiking, love, new york, nourish, outside, parenting, photography, photos by quinn, plants, rainbow mondays 
just 23 of my favorite images from the past few busy weeks.
red: seeing the vacation house spring blooms appearing is a happy side effect of living there 2 or 3 seasons longer than we originally anticipated. it has continued to be a haven of beautiful wonders to behold, you gotta love . . . → Read More: ~rainbow mondays~ happy surprises and love everywhere i look 4 comments abundance, gratitude, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting, rainbow mondays abundance, back yard, being a mama, celebration, dragon house, family, farm, flowers, food, gardening, gathering, gratitude, home, love, nature, nourish, organic, outside, parenting, photography, plants, rainbow mondays, reflection, sunset, vacation house 
i have been delinquent on posting ~a month of unschool~ for so many months now, that it is time for an update on a whole year! i gave up on the idea of back-dating the posts and decided to do one giant long post of the whole year in the life of one . . . → Read More: a year in the life of a lifelong learner One comment abundance, gratitude, handcrafting, lifelong learning, natural world, parenting a month of unschool, abundance, back yard, beach, being a mama, birthday, boats, books, celebration, coparenting, drawing, family, food, games, gardening, gratitude, handcrafting, hiking, horses, karate, lifelong learning, love, nature, new york, nourish, ocean, our living school, outside, pancakes, parenting, peace, photography, pioneers, plants, reading, salmon, science, simple machines, stop motion animation, tall ship, tidepooling, unschooling, water, windmills 
~a friday ritual~ a photo capturing a moment from the week. a simple, special moment. a moment i want to pause, savor and remember other posts you may enjoy:a month of unschool ~ dino driven learning~this moment~ the big apple~quinn’s fortieth month~ rebirth |
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