KivaRose
supper: yucca petal curry with preserved lemons, beebalm pesto, chicken and sweet red pepper.
| preparing for a quick walk up the mountain to dig some skullcap plants and check on a few general harvesting areas then off to the village. |
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| san francisco and gila river ethnobotany research, listening to the wind and being in love with the Gila :) |
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| tending to a giant rock cut on my leg with beebalm/mugwort lard salve & about to take a bath under the stars, woodheated and clawfooted. |
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| just finished up with a client and brought wash water in barrels up from the river in the old jeep. back to emails. |
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| lunch: small steak, bitter greens with pesto and lots of water. tinctured freshly harvested herbs and now back to work :) |
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| Back from the walk: hot and slightly sunburned but refreshed after dousing myself in the river. Harvested cherry flowers, wafer ash and more |
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| about to go on a walk up the arroyo to gather beebalm sprouts and other medicines and foods. Honeysuckle is ~almost~ blooming. |
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| writing the book, endlessly. eating nettle soup and listening to the blues. compulsively kissing the ashwagandha plant, silly me :) |
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| smelling wild grape flower and gathering wild greens for lunch. now back to studying/developing/writing on the medicine woman energetics... |
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| drinking chamomile-tulsi-rose tea, working on publishing options and excited about wild rose and nettle harvest. |
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| Evaluating student work and expanding curriculum. And taking little break to run outside and pet the plants! |
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| Refining my emerging energetics system, my brain hurts. Listening to the strangest banjo music ever :) |
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| Potting up my finest Ashwagandha baby to keep nearby and watering the ones in the garden. Amazing and tough plant, my newest obsession! |
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| studying tcm theory, especially constitutional theory. |
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| dessert: mmm, fresh strawberries and unsweetened, spiced truffles. |
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| Bah, too late for dandelions and shepherd's purse. Nevertheless the leafing box elder maples are gorgeous and sweet clover everywhere. |
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| Off to the village, hoping to find some dandelion flowers and shepherd's purse. |
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| Brain fried from too much publisher research, time to drink some tea and fall into my lovely outdoor bed. |
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| Supper: more turkey-nettle soup, this time with sweet clover pesto added! |
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