New Beginnings Till The End...

Somewhere along the line, way back in time I evolved as a self proclaimed beginner.

I love to explore, do creative things and am always open to what something could be... the possibilities are endless! This process is almost always apart of my dailyness. It's not a bad thing, I can't really help it and honestly I don't really want to. It's kind of who I am.

On the other hand, my follow through isn't always great. Not on every level, because I do get a lot of things accomplished, they are just not the things that are important to some or are not on the never ending preverbial list.. Oiy!!

Spring Seedlings

But, I have found that if you leave me alone long enough and don't distract me with some other thing that has no baring on my own circular process or thinking, I get to the finishing of it in my own way and in my own time.

This pandemic and full time isolation at home with a linear minded partner is a bit of a challenge. For both of us.

Ginger Chili Lime Shrub

Most of the time I roll into the day with new plans, ideas, concoctions and then he wakes up... haha.. plods along, follows his list and in a very orderly fashion gets his own things done. I melt into the ground at the thought.. :)

Unfortunately, in the very best way, I think I drive him nuts most of the time. He is very sweet and quiet about it as a rule, but he continues to try to organize me and keep me tucked neatly into a box and I continually bust out all over the place.. (house being the box...)

When I am home or we are home together, my blooming, decocting, eclectic projects, piles and creative messiness sprawl about "the box" and he makes it his mission to follow around behind me putting everything away, ordered in some way and swept up, a bit too many times I'm afraid. I tell him to leave it but somehow he just can't..

Naan Fiddlehead Pizza

Homemade Naan

It is a choreographed dance we have crafted over 32 years of a life together, it works for us, but in small bites.. not pandemic levels!!

We are both relieved I think when he has to go to work at his essential job and we can take a much needed break from all that dancing! Phew! :)




Enters... the puppy!!

Willow's First Ride

Now he is outnumbered.. Thank God! I have an ally! There is no putting this little lady in a box and she even
throws up and poops in the car! Chews the legs of the tables, chairs, shoes... runs a buck eighty with razor sharp teeth straight for your bare legs and it's either rangle that girl or make sure you've got plenty of band aides.. Zoomies we call those bursts of crazy.. anyone with a dog knows what these are.. Zoomies are wild and random and full of life!! They make all three of us excited, breathless and scared all at the same time and it's wonderful after the dust settles and we can relax or take a nap.

Post Zoomies

I'm grateful for Willow, our little furry and I am grateful for my dear one and all of his attention to detail. There's no one I'd rather do this life trek with!

But for now, my messy new ideas, random projects and piles pale in comparison to Zoomies, throw up and poop so I get to fly under the radar for a while..

Have a great day!!
Denice

Favorite Dance Partner

Making Medicine

Over the last week I have been putting together the twelve tincture medicinals that have been extracting and steeping at home since the last full moon.. It takes about thirty days to create a medicinal tincture from fresh or dried herbs and I've begun creating my pharmacopeia apothecary! Say that outloud!! I love saying that and I am in love with this folk medicine process! What a humble blessing it is to take what most people would perceive as weeds and create a healing tea, tonic or tincture without any need for the box store pharmacy establishments. I am learning so much about this process and am taking my time of course because it is also a process of patience, wellness and mindfulness. Oooozing GRATITUDE for the journey I am on.

Next month I will begin my Herbalist Apprenticeship in Rockport, ME. Up until now I have been self directed mostly through curiosity and self discovery. I have used my own concoctions and shared them with most of my close family and friends, all with very positive results and encouragement.


My upcoming apprenticeship will allow me to work with some amazing healers and medicine makers and I'll receive the knowledge and confidence to make and administer herbal medicine as a clinician if I choose to go down that path in the future. It is an ever evolving process and with spring fast approaching I am beside myself with all of the foraging opportunities that are coming and I'll be able to follow the growing seasons, learning and creating the medicines that will complete my array of offerings full circle..

It'll take digging up dandelion greens to a whole other level! That one plant in all of it's parts; leaf, flower and root support the digestive system, urinary system and the pancreas. It is  cleansing agent for the kidneys, a diuretic and targets the microflora in the belly to aid digestion! Who knew right!! Our ancestors did that's who ~ Crazy!

Talk about a Spring Cleanse after a long winter.

 So as a tea, tincture or tonic... this annoying little plant in all its powerful glory is amazing. I think about how resilient they are and how hard they are to eradicate from the lawns that we covet so. Lol.. Maybe we're supposed to notice that. They are powerful and fight back! A clue perhaps from nature herself.


So any who... :) I made my medicine this week and hope to begin to add more of it to my daily routine. I brewed a growler full of Chaga Ginger & Nettle Tea during the storm and with a little honey it's amazing! Hubby is actually more partial to that now then coffee... and being a Die Hard coffee beast that he is, that says something.

Why?? You might ask is this even something that you are doing when it is so much easier to just go to Walmart... To that I say~ Exactly!!!

Have an amazing weekend~

Be Well & Peace To You Always,
Denice