Standing Stones at the Summer Solstice

Foraging for Pigments from Local Rocks: Making Watercolors, Oils, and Egg Tempera Paint from the Land!

Local Iron Oxide taken from a mineral spring, crushed, ground, sifted and made into paint!

When I walk along the landscape here, I am greeted with the deep oranges and yellow oxides of our soils laden with heavy amounts of clay and iron. These colors are reflected each time I dig into the subsoil, and as I drive through the countryside where mountains were cut through for roads. In other places, I might be greeted with reds, blues, or greens, all reflected in the geology of the land. Each region carries its own colors, and you can find the palate of the land in every stream bed. Even an hour drive in any direction puts one in a new geological region–and this changes the colors of the stones and the soil. You might think about these colors like a language–each landscape has its own language that you can learn to…

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SUPERIOR SHORELINE SNAPSHOT

Lake Superior Shoreline, photo by Kirt E. Carter Photography View the photo bigger, see more in Kirt’s slideshow, and view work & check out his blog on his website. via Superior Shoreline Snapshot — Michigan in Pictures

Spiritual Practices to Finding Equilibrium in the Chaos: Grounding, and Flow through the Druid Elements

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The Druid's Garden

A tremendous amount of really difficult occurrences are happening in the world right now. It seems like the more time that passes, the more we balance on the edge. The edge of what exactly, nobody can say. But the edge of something, and likely, not something any of us are looking forward to. Things seem to be spinning faster, and faster; the light growing darker and darker. A lot of folks are having difficulty just coping with reading the news or even being on social media, the enormity of everything–social, political, environmental, personal–weighing down. Responses to this range from rage and anger to numbness. There is a heaviness in the air that cannot be discounted.

A good place to seek the stability of calas