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Just when we thought we found the key to our sanity with our lively little baby A, the jolliest jumper in the land, we went and googled the safety of this favourite pastime. It came up unanimously that jolly jumpers are detrimental to physical development. Noooooooo!!! We thought we were doing him a favour! And we were certainly liberated for about 3-4 hours a day while he was happily bouncing, jabbering, and drooling away in the middle of the cabin, surrounded by all the action, taking up minimal space, safely contained.… so.. now what? A cage? . . . . . #robinwood #natureiscalling #cabinlifestyle #offthegrid #vancouverislandbc #robinwoodfarm #sayward #homestead #tinyhouseliving #tinyhome #jollyjumper #parentingishard #livinginthewoods #cabinlife

Oh I’m so sad. My favourite poet, the beautiful Mary Oliver died today. What can I do but walk alone in the rainy woods… What can I say that she couldn’t have said better. I loved her. Her way of seeing the world was so beautiful and rare. “Poetry is a life-cherishing force,” she wrote, ”For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.” . . . And of course, this; —When Death Comes— . When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; when death comes like the measle-pox; when death comes like an iceberg between the shoulder blades, I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness? And therefore I look upon everything as a brotherhood and a sisterhood, and I look upon time as no more than an idea, and I consider eternity as another possibility, and I think of each life as a flower, as common as a field daisy, and as singular, and each name a comfortable music in the mouth, tending, as all music does, toward silence, and each body a lion of courage, and something precious to the earth. When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world. . . . #robinwood #natureiscalling #maryoliver #vancouverislandbc #robinwoodfarm #sayward #livinginthewoods #plantmedicine #wildernesslifestyle #liveauthentic

We got home last night from an extended stay in the city, and so we went for a good walk around the property to see what changes the winter storms brought to the land. As always the misty alder groves were stunning. So good to be home.. . . “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 only cathedral I will ever need. I’m going to fill geography and allow that geography to fill me. I’m going to remember that I am a creature and that the land sustains me. I’m going to remember that it does not exist for me. I exist for it. I’m going to be joined to all my relations – everything under the sun…” ~ Richard Wagamese . . . . . #robinwood #natureiscalling #cabinlifestyle #offthegrid #vancouverislandbc #robinwoodfarm #sayward #homestead #livinginthewoods #plantmedicine #hedgewitch #vanisle #cabinlife #wildernesslifestyle #liveauthentic #theresnoplacelikehome #aldergroves

100 days. Look at this face!!! Kind of hard to believe he’s been here for 100 days already/only. Doubled his birth weight, knows his place in the world, larger than life sparkle shining in his eyes. Who is this incredible force disguised as our baby? These photos speak for themselves, don’t they? haha. . . . . . #robinwood #100days #3monthsold #offthegrid #vancouverislandbc #robinwoodfarm #liveauthentic #theadventuresofarrowynn #magicofchildhood #thebloomforum #theheartcaptured #thiswildlingsoul #simplychildren #babyphotography #everydayphotography #oldsoul

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