Spirit Cords

Today I spun some new cords for my lovely new flasks. These will be filled with various oil blends of my making. It felt good to make these today. I'll be getting them listed, one by one, in my Esty shop in the coming days.

I connected with a sweet friend today, that I've not seen all winter, and we made plans to get together next week. Next week ... a week that's shaping into a very busy one, one that is putting all the foggy places in my life right there in my face to reckon with and sort through and to, well -- re-shape my priorities. Just in time for spring.

I also received news that one of my reiki students was selected as a reiki volunteer at an area cancer care center. That warms my heart so!

And, one of my cousins was admitted into the hospital today with a pulmonary embolism. Good thoughts, healing verve and prayers are all welcome. Peace.

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Foggy Leftovers

The day started in a haze of fog that grew thicker and heavier as the morning took hold. My own behavior mirrored the day. I showed up to a meeting completely unprepared and with a mind that resisted engagement, and I am thankful that I was among friends.

It wasn't until mid-afternoon that the low fog drifted upward to meet the heavy cloud cover, and only then did my mind and mood begin to clear and engage. Trouble is, it cleared into a critical place that spurred a rather foul mood. So even then I was unable to focus and fully engage in anything productive, intuitive or creative.

I made a supper of combined leftovers. It was quite good. So I got that.

More tomorrow.

"New" Shelf Drawers

If you follow this silly blog at all, you may remember me lamenting the re-organizing of my dispensary/work room. Well, I'm back to that ... and doing collage with old magazine pages, on discarded boxes that I pick up here and there, boxes that fit ever-so-nicely into my closet shelves. Here's one in process:

The corrugated cardboard, combined with the collage and a finish coat will make some very nice, heavy-duty, colorful, re-purposed/up-cycled and free containers for my ... stuff.

I also have a nice pasta sauce simmering away. What did you make today?

Taxing Completions

Today I finished my tax crap. Yay. Tomorrow morning I'll audit my completed efforts and get the little you-know-what-er in the mail to my CPA. 

That done, I can refocus my energies on creating some new art, starting my garden seedlings, continuing my plarn projects, upcycling some frames, refashioning some old clothes and firming up my summer workshop schedule. Among other things. Yay!

Brew Preparations

We have some friends coming by tomorrow morning for an informal ale-brew lecture, demonstration and early-in-the-day-tasting. It's so nice to have the kitchen back and to be brewing again! Tonight we start a 5-gallon batch of a Porter, a gallon of Cardamom Ale and perhaps a gallon of Sarsaparilla Ale. Tomorrow I'll start at least one more gallon of herbal ale of some kind or another. I have a batch of blueberry wine I may bottle as well. Life is sweet.

Slainte!

Fresh Spirit

It feels so good to be home and I thank you all for your sweet words of safe travel and happy returns. It is taking me some extra time and effort to really settle back in from this last adventure. I still have loose ends to tie up, as well as plans in the making, but this morning I promised myself a block of time and space to ground, center, meditate and create.

So I created some fresh spirit cords with my Paperclay "impressions of nature." This time I used not only the usual cotton floss, but some synthetic textured yarn I had left over from an old project.

 

I am pleased with the outcome and feel more at home now. Peace.

My Way Back Home

To my sweet little hut on my sweet little acre on my sweet little hill. Ashe.