I dreamt that benji and I were invisible- until we started talking out loud.you need to listen to your dreams.I think it's time for me to take an even longer blogging break--from this open book forma...
the end of blogging for this month at least.my computer is officially dead. it won't access the internet most of the time, it only has 19 keys (less than a mouth full of toddler teeth) born in 2003 d...
Many people have asked me if they can live this kind of life anywhere, not just in rural south of France. Of course. You can stop consuming, using money, absolutely anywhere in the world, especially ...
Today, I am wearing black. Almost everyone I see is wear a black coat, or a black scarf or gloves or black cashmere sweater that matches the month of December color-wize in my eyes. For each month of...
The Full COLD moon is tonight. Chaotic mental energy abounds. Composing an email, taking photos, washing laundry and cooking a big broth at the same time.(my computer is so slow it can't keep up with...
just finished reading : infinite riches. i felt possessed by something stronger than all of us; i was in awe. i coulnt stop reading about the spirit child and the rewriting of Africa's history. about...
Come fast with me. We’ll eat delicious homemade freegan’d from the trash: turnip and parsnip soup, garlic chicken with rosemary and thyme, spinach salad with tomatoes, mushrooms and feta and a pumpki...
happy thanksgiving everyone! (i'll be making a Dumpster dived dinner)
Things that make me happy and thankful this season:Walking Amaya to school. Her tiny hand in mine, her face up to the sky watching the autumn leaves falling. Her asking me why why why. Why do they fa...
Once every three months I make my own laundry soap. It takes some time to wait for the soap to melt and then you wait for one more day for it to be ready, but the labor is minimal and the savings is ...
generate: make it happendig down into your own energy source- your riches insidenot only generate your own heatgenerosity of the seasongenerations to acknowledge and thankgenesis- bring into existenc...
Here is a man who takes a year off from money.I believe the key reason for so many problems in the world today is the fact we no longer have to see directly the repercussions of our actions. The degr...
I don’t make lists. A friend asked how I manage to so much done in one day, if there are 36 hours in my day and do I make lots of to-do lists. The answer is a resounding no, not at all. She was in sh...
The only things inevitable in life are taxes and death. As humans, we are the only animals consciously aware of these grim dilemmas and therefore able to spiritually reflect on our purpose on this ea...
We have been having the most enjoyable vacation at home ever. benji gets 9 days off for All Saints Day. On Friday night we took amaya to a biker bar to see her favorite singer, our neighbor Kenny, si...
it's been two years of "a slow year" already. the first year we vowed not to buy anything except for food from local, healthy sources and the following year we didnt even buy food at all. i...
“Your daughter loves Roquefort!” the childminder at Amaya’s preschool told me. Then I saw it in the local newspaper. Her school participated in France’s 'semaine du gout' a week long country wide eve...
October 18th our first frost, just two months early this year. last year was December 15th. the river this early morning had crusted ice along its shores and the car windows were white and fuzzy. you...
Plums stewing in their own juices simmered away while I trudged up two flights of stairs to fetch a cup of lime. My job of cook, cleaner, gleaner, gardener, farmer, feeder is also that of undertaker,...
We bought three Fauve de Bourgogne breeding rabbits with the fifty euro bill that Novella slyly slipped into my wallet before she left. Two females (does) and one male (buck) will get to live awesome...
paul is the winner!!!! email me your address and i'll put it in the mail this week.riana (dot) lagarde (at) gmail**drawing is tonight, Friday the 9th at 7pm GMT****During the five short days that my ...
Make like an autumn leaf and FALL. The Blood moon, also called the Hunter’s Moon is upon us. Has it lit your fire? Are you being tenacious at bringing in the harvest? Take action. Make sure that we a...
All good things must come to an end. My family has left. My sister was here for only a short week. We filled it to the brim with a typical French farmers market visit to taste cheeses, olives and sal...
We are off filling our baskets and visiting with family. Be back soon...
September marks the time when I move out of the garden more often and turn to nature yet again to forage like a squirrel for winter. At night my dreams are of foraging. perched high up in trees as th...
Bowled over by generous forks this week.A friend borrowed Benji's chainsaw and really used it to clear some trees that fell over in last winter's wind storm. When they gave it back they offered inste...
Are we still living a slow year? Well, yes, basically for most everything. Not shopping is hardwired in our hunter/gatherer brains. We are master scrappers. Plus, we need to save as much money as we ...
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