ROBINWOOD
Herbal Medicine and the sun and stars
Project Type: Summer
August 2020
“She is often the broken-winged one, who does everything all wrong until people realize she’s been doing it… pretty right all along. She’s the poor girl who never dressed right, who had torn hose, and they were all baggy around her ankles. She’s the… Continue Reading “August 2020”
July 2020
Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water. And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot even breathe deeply, and the night sky is no home, and you have cried yourself to sleep enough times that you are… Continue Reading “July 2020”
June 2020
“One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it.” ― Clarissa Pinkola Estés
August 2019
“The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides.… Continue Reading “August 2019”
July 2019
“She lost herself in the trees, among the ever-changing leaves. She wept beneath the wild sky as stars told stories of ancient times. The flowers grew towards her light, the river called her name at night. She could not live an ordinary life with… Continue Reading “July 2019”
June 2019
“The wonder of a moment in which there is nothing but an upwelling of simple happiness is utterly awesome. Gratitude is so close to the bone of life, pure and true, that it instantly stops the rational mind, and all its planning and plotting.… Continue Reading “June 2019”
August 2018
“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.” ~ Walt Whitman
July 2018
To be of the Earth is to knowthe restlessness of being a seedthe darkness of being plantedthe struggle toward the lightthe joy of bursting and bearing fruitthe love of being food for someonethe scattering of your seedsthe decay of the seasonsthe mystery of deathand… Continue Reading “July 2018”
June 2018
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” ~ Oscar Wilde
August 2017
“We are stardust, we are golden, and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.” – Joni Mitchell
July 2017
Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished. -Mary Oliver
June 2017
What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It’s the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself alive. It is the experience of contact and communication between oneself and something that is profoundly different from oneself: a… Continue Reading “June 2017”
