Sheila Kitzinger is a longtime proponent for Holistic Birthing. I added the 'you' in there! What is it you're birthing in your life right now? May your day be filled with the gift of Love...
It is the journey that gives the story worth...
Welcome!
My name is Linden. I live on the edge of a large forest in Northeast CT.Our story begins with...there was a child who lived alone with her grandmother and a great blue heron in a tiny cabin at the edge of the wood...
Story Traveller
She became a cartographer of the heart. She realized the only guarantee of having the love she wanted was to create the map for it herself.
~emma magenta
celebration
April 27, 2012
April 23, 2012
::VGMB Earth Day::
Earth Day at our friends farm. We go here every year for the past...maybe 5 or 6 years I think. The bear marks the beginning...
It poured for most of the day but, we were snug inside the barn with friends and good music!
Chris our favorite sound man. He's at all the shows and sound by him is perfection! He's listening here and making sure it sounds just right...he closes his eyes when he's checking!
VanGordonMartin Band! Wonderful music...amazing guitarist Van...hornplayer Derek...Brian Sayers is on Drums in the back...
No Limit to Love...
Randy talking to a guitarist in between sets
Mr. Rourke showing Eva how to spin...
Disco ball in beautiful old barn...!
Despite the rain...which diminished property walking...everyone had a great time and the music was fabulous!
April 09, 2012
::Dreambirds::
Springtime childrens books.
March 19, 2012
Spring Equinox::Taproot
Spring arrives! We made it...we made it through another winter. A big hare appeared in the reflection box today. She came with eggs, ribbons, flowers and light...how exciting. This little spot is on our walkway so we will see her coming and going. A tiny periwinkle flower peeks out of her neck. Equinox blessings on the day...
Taproot arrived today! I've been looking for it each day in the mailbox. It is beautiful! This first issue's theme is Soil. I can't wait to curl up with this new gem. If you'd like a subscription for yourself or a friend...it would be wonderful to help this fledgling beauty along. Living fully...Digging Deeper...yes.
March 04, 2012
February 27, 2012
birthday
stacy de la Rosa of Bella Wish created this word of the year necklace for me. She is one of my Soulodge Sisters.
A gift from my husband...a birthday wish for me.
A new pantry shelf made for me for my birthday. I'll fill it up with grains, beans, herbs...all those good things that nourish our bodies!
finished off with a heart!
I already had a shelf that held 15 jars quite nicely. Inspired by Heather over at Wholefoodkitchen...we decided a nice big shelf would be wonderful. This will work until the someday pantry is built. That someday pantry will also do double duty as cold storage for the winters. This is the panty in the new kitchen that is slowly coming together.
A tray perfect for a girl born under the Pisces Sun.
Flowers were brought to me all week long!
Red Rose and House Wine...
Rabbit door knob to be installed...
Dried roses in an old blue fiesta vase that emma found at the flea market a couple of years ago. I love old dried flowers. I like to watch them shrivel up and fade away. Often I tie them into a bunch and hang then up somewhere...
Mushroom salt & pepper shakers...
Red tulips fading...
There was...
*building
*reading
*vintage hunting
*cooking
*pizza
*conversation
*wind & sun
*dog visiting
*pantry shelfing
*a christmas tree lit up
*carrot cake
*green candles
*Design Sponge Book
*gift giving
*spirit doll materials
*drift wood from the beach
*candles of blue
*love
February 17, 2012
wishing on flowers & candles
My husband is a romantic. He brings me flowers at least once a week and in the summer time its more. Sometimes he buys them at a shop, or a truck on the side of the road. In the wintertime, that is what he must resort to. But, for a romantic such as he...he much prefers picking wildflowers when he can or picking them in our garden or in a customers garden if he asks. He is most excited when he comes home dragging a big white bucket with a clump of Iris or some other plant that someone is dividing and looking for its new home. He is a plant rescuer of the finest kind. It is wintertime, although so very warm this winter...and for Valentines Day he brought me pink roses. He always seems like a boy coming to his sweetheart for the first time when he brings me flowers...it's one of the things I most love about him.
I am cleaning out drawers and cupboards in preparation for the new kitchen that is slowly taking shape here. I was digging and found this box. It was an old Valentine Box that emma saved all these years. In the box are all the candles for all the birthday cakes that we have ever had here in this house! I knew they were there. Between emma and I, one of us gets a fistful of candles into that box after a party because we cannot bare to part with them. It's as if we can save up all of the wishes from all of the years and keep them safe and sound tucked inside that box. I was alone when I found it and it brought such a smile and then happy and some sad tears. Happy for all of the love. Some sadness at noticing the years going by...
And...then I found these....
These are the candles from Emma's very first birthday cake...and the next two years to follow. A mama's heart leaps when she can hold in her very hands and put to her own lips...the whisper of baby breath on those sweet wee candles from 24 years ago...somewhere around here is the little silver candle holder from a waldorf fair that we bought for that very first candle to go into.
Do you remember all those years you've travelled...? Have any of your wishes come true...?
January 19, 2012
simple gatherings
Oh my...Kinfolk arrived yesterday. Simple gatherings with friends.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. ~Charles Mingus
Kinfolk is simply wonderful, delicious, lovely...it is how I want to live each moment. If you haven't seen it...I don't say this often...you must have a peek. Kinfolk can be found here. To compliment this gorgeous work are beautiful films that Kinfolk has put together. Below is just one of them.
Dutch Oven Bread from Kinfolk on Vimeo.
Thank you so much Kinfolk...
September 09, 2011
May 08, 2011
A mother's day...
Our apple tree bursting into bloom today...
Apple Blossoms...
More Apple Blossoms...
Even more Apple Blossoms...
She is the taker of the pictures today...and the reason that I am a Mother....I do love this beautiful daughter of mine.
