ROBINWOOD
Herbal Medicine and the sun and stars
Project Type: Autumn
September 2020
“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have… Continue Reading “September 2020”
November 2019
“I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
September 2019
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round… Continue Reading “September 2019”
November 2018
“Change knelt down beside me in the wilderness, and in the gentlest voice I ever heard, said “I love being the reason for all of your beginnings” Then she kissed the tears from my eyes, stood up, and reached for my hand.” Heather K… Continue Reading “November 2018”
October 2018
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It… Continue Reading “October 2018”
Sepember 2018
“I’m going to the land today. I’m going to sing, to pray, to sit in splendid isolation and hear the sound of my own heartbeat mingled with the heartbeat of the Earth that I feel through the bottoms of my feet. I’m going to the… Continue Reading “Sepember 2018”
November 2017
“Mosses and other small beings issue an invitation to dwell for a time right at the limits of ordinary perception. All it requires of us is attentiveness. Look in a certain way and a whole new world can be revealed.” -Robin Wall Kimmerer
October 2017
Lost Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I… Continue Reading “October 2017”
September 2017
“Being naturalized to place means to live as if this is the land that feeds you, as if these are the streams from which you drink, that build your body and fill your spirit. To become naturalized is to know that your ancestors lie… Continue Reading “September 2017”