When we feel disconnected, everything falls apart. What if instead of scrambling to try to control everything in our lives, we just focused on restoring our spiritual connection, whatever that means for each of us?
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How to Render Fat For Cooking, Soap-Making, Skin-care Recipes, or Candle-Making
I used to put off the task of rendering fat for cooking, soap making, and skin care – because it was time consuming, messy, and intimidating. After making every imaginable (and some un-imaginable) mistake, here’s the simple method I use now. Clean, odour-free rendered fat without the mess and stress.
Where Am I Locating Power – Inside or Outside of Me?
Locating power outside of myself leads to me trying to create safety for myself by controlling the people and events around me. Conversely, locating power within myself liberates me to change my internal experience regardless of my outer relationships or circumstances — and that makes a difference to how satisfied and effective I can be both personally and in my efforts to make a difference in the world around me.
We All Need a Village; Here’s How to Build One
In this post I share my definition of a village, why we all need one (whether or not we’re raising children), and the paradox you need to grasp that may enable you to start building your own village even when doing so seems impossible.
How to Grow Sweet Potatoes in Containers and Why You’d Want to
Sweet potato tubers + greens combined give you a calorie AND nutrient dense food from one growing space. Here’s how to grow them at home, including ideas for protecting them from rodents.
On Power – a Choice Between Stories
What if we lived in a fundamentally intelligent and playful universe in which we could choose to participate, rather than just going along for the ride?
Weeds – Deep, Wild Nutrition And Medicine
Over time, wild edibles (weeds) can help us build deep health and resilience, offering a spectrum of nutrition that no supermarket shelf or bottle of pills can ever provide — and weeds are free! Here are six that grow almost everywhere.
3 Keys to a Real Green Life
In this essay I share the three aspects of our culture that make it difficult and counter-cultural to live a real green life, and how we can turn those three challenges inside out to unpack the solution (the key) from within the problem.
Using Fresh Aloe Vera Leaf to Treat Burns at Home
Aloe vera is so easy to grow and so useful when you need it. Here is a story, mostly told in pictures, of a nasty chemical burn and how aloe vera came to the rescue.
Do You Feel Like Rebelling Against These Things Too?
Here are some of the things I have absolutely had enough of, and some of the changes I want to contribute to. Do you feel the same way? What would you change, in this list?