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Hazelnuts, Gratitude, and Ancestors
I’m blogging a little early this week, due to the American Thanksgiving holiday. For my non-US readers, a little explanation is probably in order. Thanksgiving was made an official holiday in the mid-1800s, but its origins go back to a … Continue reading
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The Peace of Exhaustion
“There is a seasonal exhaustion in the air.” John Hay from Poor Will’s Almanack 2010 Here in northwest Pennsylvania, John Hay’s description really rings true in November. The land is utterly worn out from another season of budding, growing, blooming, fruiting, … Continue reading
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Tagged balance, late autumn/early winter, life cycle, mindfulness, natural spirituality
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Monday Musings: Into the Deep Darkness: An Elemental Litany
The shortest day of the year is fast approaching, and with it comes the deep winter dreaming darkness… Clear air, sparkling with stars against velvety blacknessDream of a world such as this. Clean air, unpolluted, flowing with breezes and punctuated … Continue reading
Monday Musings: Obligatory Thankfulness
The Sustainable Soul will be taking a break this week, and returning on Thursday, December 3, due to the American holiday of Thanksgiving. I’ll be cooking mountains of food, spending time with family, and looking out for rogue flowers blooming … Continue reading
Snowdrop Mysteries
Earlier this week, I posted as my Facebook status the fact that I had a very confused snowdrop blooming in my garden. Several readers of The Sustainable Soul who are also FB friends (and if you’re not, I invite you to become … Continue reading
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Tagged garden, late autumn/early winter, life cycle, natural spirituality
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Ways of Seeing
I’ve been walking the same woodland path every week for more than a year now, and it’s gratifying to be at a point where I can look back in my nature journal and see how things were last year at … Continue reading
November
Where I live, November has a reputation for being muddy, dull and grey. The glorious leafy autumnal fire of October has passed, and December’s sparkling lights and crystalline snow have yet to appear. For now, there’s not much to see … Continue reading
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Monday Musings: Unexpected Losses
In the past two entries, we’ve explored Wabi-Sabi, the Japanese philosophy of finding beauty and meaning in imperfection, aging, and decay as natural processes and conditions. Aging is a natural process, as is the passage of the seasons. But what … Continue reading
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