Posts tagged ‘mo karn’

1/2/2018

Frozen water trough

Wet cat food can frozen meat

It is freezing out

New Year’s Resolutions

Be a better partner and spend more time laughing with David.

Be a better parent to Jewel and Chulainn.

Go to the gym 3 times a week.

Acheive better work/life balance.

Publish a haiku a day on my blog.

Spend more time writing.

Get the house, cars, and barns cleaned and organized – especially by getting rid of things we do not need. 

1/1/2018

New year new cocoon

Too cold to emerge yet as

A caterpillar

12/29/17

15 degrees out

Tyson’s chicken truck has the cages

Wrapped in Saran wrap
Those chickens, almost 

To their slaughter house, freezing

Suffering, abused
Tyson’s chicken plant

Daily commute reminder

Factory farms suck

12/20/17

Sitting in the car

Outside of the gym. Working

Up to it slowly.

I’m still here!

Hello anyone who looks at my website! It has been a minute. I got hired to open and manage a cafe at St. Stephen’s church in Richmond, VA. Then they added managing the weekly, year round Farmers Market to my responsibilities. All of this also meant my partner David had to start doing more with our historic window restoration business. I also had to put herbalism school on hold. And you know, we got married and also did all kinds of fun activities with our kids in the meantime.

 We opened the cafe in the week before Thanksgiving, and there was not much sleep. Over a month in, and many of the kinks have been worked out, I have great cafe staff, and we are open 7 days a week to the public. The cafe serves as a Village Green, and we have a smoothie of the same name. I was also able to create a really fun drink menu that works with the Church’s mission of being good environmental stewards and promoting healthy, local food and drink. I even incorporated some herbalist aspects into things like the Golden Milk Latte and our tea selection! 

I am hoping in 2018 to get back to regular haiku. It has just been a 70+ hour a week thing for a bit.

I am #grateful for the #harvest from #motherearth and for the time today to continue processing some of the plant bounty we were able to grow and #wildcraft this year. #herbalism #herbalist #theheathenhomestead #rva #beaverdam #goldenrod #rose #cleavers #chickweed #queenanneslace #wormwood #plantain here is just a little of what we grew and gathered

11/9/17

Keurig coffee thing

Sounds like ailing chicken, sign

Of cultural death

10/26/17

Quilted country sky

Puts paper towels to shame

False advertising.
Yes, I did insult

The quicker picker upper

Clouds absorb WAY more

10/25/17

Try this for morning

Meditation. Water and feed

Plants and animals
Country morning means

Dew damp shoes and slow sunrise

Ease into the day

10/12/17-10/13/17

ethereal specter,

haunted by the past, ghosted

but not forgotten

 

trunk or treat is not

the same, Halloween has grown

too tame.  mischief brews