ROBINWOOD
Herbal Medicine and the sun and stars
Project Type: Winter
February 2021
And, if the world ever tells you That you’re too small Tell it About the stars That light up the dark nights sky Tell it About the rain drops That fill up the oceans deep Tell it You are not too small As you… Continue Reading “February 2021”
January 2021
“Be both soft and wild. Just like the Moon. Or the storm. Or the sea.” — Victoria Erickson
December 2020
“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved… Continue Reading “December 2020”
February 2020
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but… Continue Reading “February 2020”
January 2020
“You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off,… Continue Reading “January 2020”
February 2019
Ten times a day something happens to me like this – some strengthening throb of amazement – some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out… Continue Reading “February 2019”
January 2019
“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 “January 2019”
December 2018
The real work is becoming native in your heart, coming to understand we really live here, that this is really the continent we’re on, and that our loyalties are here, to these mountains and rivers, to these plant zones, to these creatures. The real… Continue Reading “December 2018”
February 2018
“All that we are is story. From the moment we are born to the time we continue on our spirit journey, we are involved in the creation of the story of our time here. It is what we arrive with. It is all… Continue Reading “February 2018”
January 2018
To be of the Earth is to know the restlessness of being a seed the darkness of being planted the struggle toward the light the joy of bursting and bearing fruit the love of being food for someone the scattering of your seeds the… Continue Reading “January 2018”
December 2017
We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the… Continue Reading “December 2017”