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Come and adventure here with me! Everything requires practice to master and creative writing is no different. I have been a writer as far back as I can remember. I recently found and read some short stories of mine from when I was maybe 13 or 14. A time when I was consumed by airplanes and living in the woods(well one stayed with me). I have a stack of journals full of my history as well as poems and rants. My eyes are always searching out words. I read everything I can. I must say that the past few years writing has been on the back burner for me. Besides just living life I have found it harder to concentrate in the past few year.
Now here is a chance to work on the lack of something in my life that I truly love and enjoy doing. By using the seeds that are one course of generating ideas for a story in The Idea Garden, ones mind is engaged, sometimes your funny bone is tickled and sometimes you may gain experience doing research and learning something new.
Hopefully the practice of sitting down and concentrating may help with being able to focus.
So if your writing has been lying dormant for some time or even of you are an active writer, come and join us growing seeds into trees.
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On another note; I am spending a few weeks in town house and dog sitting. I am not spending the same amount of time in out in nature as I would like.....but my wanderings last night made up for it.

Dark night and silent sea,
Venus shining down on me.
Open my heart, bare my soul,
for isn't connection the ultimate goal?

It was extraordinarily peaceful standing on the shore looking out at the water and although the moon is close to her darkest time, Venus shone so brightly making the water glimmer and making me feel something glow within my soul. I could hear the waves softly lapping at the snow covered ice at the water's edge. 

I relished the feeling for a time. Soon I started to hear something growing louder and louder in my consciousness; the sizzle of the hydro wires that were beside the road behind me. As I turned to look at them a car with those nasty, bright headlights drove by, both telling me the moment had gone.

 

On a different note, my spruce needles are still at home sitting covered in grape-seed oil. If i get a chance to go home between now and the full moon I will bring the oil and the other items I need to complete it with me. If not, it will be fine until the following month.

I have been suffering with a bad tooth lately. At some point I will have to go see a dentist but until finances allow I have to figure ways to help myself out. One thing that has been helping is using one of those toothpastes for sensitive teeth. It works but I feel uncomfortable using something with fluoride in it. 

My solution that turned out to be helpful quicker than I thought it would was to make a tincture from whole cloves. I basically emptied half of them out of the glass bottle they came in( since I am not at home it was the fastest thing I could think of to make the tincture in). I then filled it up with vodka so that the cloves were covered with it. The next day I found that the cloves had absorbed the liquid and expanded and needed a topping up with the alcohol. This is the first clove tincture that I have made but instinct  (and a bit of knowledge) led me to know that this is what would help.

I made this Thursday evening. I tried the tincture today and the alcohol has already absorbed enough of the clove to numb my gums a bit and give a bit of relief.  I will leave the cloves and vodka together probably until the next dark moon. It will be an interesting learning curve with a tincture that you can feel the effects of immediately as the tincture matures.

Hopefully, the next post will not be on my experiences in dentistry!  :p

 

 

 

 

Starting the Spruce Salve

I brought a bough of spruce home with me this morning.
I stuck it on the clothes line that in across the main room of the cabin to dry off a bit.

 I left it there while I went on my first hike of the day.

Later on in I cut it up and placed the pieces in a collander on the woodstove to try and get a little more of the moisture out. (the moisture could contribute to mold growth while the spruce is infusing in the oil and I don't want that.)

I left it there while I was puttering around in the cabin. I didn't want to leave it unattended as the stove was pretty hot at the time.
My next step was to squash as much of the plant material into a glass jar as i could. Then I filled the jar up with grapeseed oil.(you could also use light olive oil as well as other but the grapeseed and olive oil are what I have expirence with)

Next I put a lid on the jar and a label saying to open at the full moon in March.
Once finished, this salve is good for sore muscles and joints. Kinda of like an A535 rub(except that you know what is in it)