On Being Wild Flowers.

13Oct13

After spending the last glorious weekend of Summer upstate at the Ashram, back in NYC, I was up all night online and in my dog-eared Peterson Field Guide trying to ID a wildflower I saw.  Positive I was the only sleepless, Manhattan-ite soul awash in botanicals of this sort at that moment. Finally, identifying what […]

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In The Hands of a New York City Woman: Top 8 Musts.

09Nov10

Hand to Mouth. Mouth to Hand. Mouth to Universe. Universe to Hand. Hello! While Mars Candy Man was out hunting, Venus Wildcrafting Woman was gathering. Man hungrily lurching out for his needs, high on sugars, waving a spear and a prayer while his woman was wiggling her conjuring fingers aligning with the forces of Natura, […]

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ELEVEN Lucid Diamonds in The Rough Voluptuous Sky.

29Nov09

ELEVEN Lucid Diamonds in The Rough Voluptuous Sky. Tell Persephone, for a good time don’t call my Iphone, silence in the cave and underground realms is woo’ing me with diamonds now. And if you are a Party or Person calling…this better be GOOD. The cave of deep dark cold, the long night, the winter solstice […]

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