My spiritual, revelatory experience canoeing on Mud Creek in Winneconne, Wisconsin with my husband, the sandhill cranes, Canada geese, red-winged blackbirds, great blue heron, and green heron. About an hour before sunset last night, my husband, Dave, and I went for a canoe ride up Mud Creek in Winneconne, Wisconsin. Whenever we go out in…
Insomnia can impact so many aspects of our health. When you can’t sleep, your biological clock gets disrupted and it can impact your weight, your stress levels, and your body’s ability to rejuvenate itself and heal from day-to-day stress. Quieting your mind so you can sleep is often the challenge. Here’s something I’ve found that helps me. Maybe it will help you too.
My 4-year-old granddaughter and I threshed and winnowed wheat from our field together. We took the wheat from the spike all the way to banana bread. She was completely fascinated by the process.
My June experiment has been hand-harvesting and hand-processing winter wheat. The biggest lesson I learned is to make sure the wheat is dry. This video illustrates the process I used to hand-process winter wheat.
The Eat Your Yard, Edible Plant of the Day is Bee Balm, also known as Wild Bergamot herb. I don’t know about you, but when I hear the term bergamot, I think of the delicious orange-smelling essential oil. Bee Balm, or wild bergamot, does not smell like orange. It smells savory like thyme and is…
I’m always looking for meaning in the madness of life. Today, during a meditative journey, I was given a parable about the rock tumbler of life. It shifted my perspective on the meaning of life and why things happen the way they do in mortality. We’ve been reading the Old Testament – specifically the stories…
Goldfinch are tiny bright yellow & black birds that eat seeds. They love thistle, cone flowers, coreopsis and live in flood plains. When you see goldfinch, here is what they symbolize.
In a previous post, I talked about how I felt the Lord telling me that everything in our lives really comes down to remembering vs forgetting who we are, who Christ is, what He did for us, and that we are all connected to each other and to everything in creation by the Creator, Jesus…
I had an exquisite enlightening experience with my morning meditation today. It was the kind of experience that will leave me forever changed.
