Big Heart Circle

Nov.16
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An Update On Carl’s Recovery

Posted by in Carl Big Heart, Community Updates, Family, Healing, Monthly Newsletter, November 2014

[NOTE: If you click on an image you can view the larger version.] What a profound thing to move from the deathbed of his Abenaki sister to the operating room the following week. Carl’s open heart surgery on Friday, October  24, was life saving. Tom, Billy, Ruth, myself and Carl’s daughters all were there when the surgeon came out of the OR and announced that the surgery was a success and that the timing of the surgery was critical. He didn’t know how Carl had made it this far. When…read more

Nov.16
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Caring For Carl

Posted by in Carl Big Heart, Community Updates, Family, November 2014

Carl’s recent surgery has not only challenged our community by keeping Carl from joining us at the lodge sites in ceremony this fall, his surgery has also challenged our ability to support him in the ways we usually do. Conversations have been occurring on both sides of the Atlantic about how we as a family can best support Carl in his time of need. In North America, Ruth, Billy Turtle Warrior, Natalie Little Crow, Dominik and myself have been having ongoing dialogues about the best ways to do this. How…read more

Nov.16
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Reflections on the Wheel: West to North

Posted by in Medicine Wheel, North, November 2014, Reflections on the Medicine Wheel, West

Since I last wrote, most of our leaves have fallen and carpeted the lawn in color.  Neither Darrell or I feel particularly inspired to rake them up, in fact, it’s kind of nice to hear them crinkle and crunch underfoot as we tromp around the yard. I couldn’t help noticing this week as I perused the garden that the calendula was still in bloom.  I was struck by its golden flower which stood out in stark contrast to the rest of the landscape which has browned and withered.  Some plants,…read more

Nov.16
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From The Garden – Food is Medicine – Carrots

Posted by in From the Garden, Healing, Health, November 2014, Recipes

From the Garden – Food is Medicine I love carrots, I grow them every year and right now I am harvesting them and will be for the next few weeks. I am grateful that here on Block Island in November, my garden is still providing food. There really is nothing like being out in the crisp, salt air as the sun sets harvesting for dinner. Carrots are my favorite in salads, they are great in soups and I have a new love for carrot juice since I got an awesome…read more

Nov.16
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The New Homespun Era

Posted by in North East United States, November 2014, On Earth, Permaculture

An economic and cultural transition is taking place in towns and farmlands throughout much of New York’s Hudson Valley, particularly where I live in Ulster County, in the Rondout Valley. We’re experiencing a sharp turn toward localism, epitomized by the Local Economies Project (LEP), which is funded by The New World Foundation. The LEP has helped to establish a Farm Hub in the vicinity, along with various Food Hubs (such as Farm-to-Table Co-Packers in Kingston), farm-to-school projects, and a host of other efforts designed to strengthen local farms and communities….read more

Nov.16
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Updates from Ireland

Posted by in Community Updates, Family, Ireland, Memories, November 2014

Thanks to Stefan and everybody else who has contributed to initiating the Big Heart Newsletter. This is a great idea and a really valuable service to our community. It provides a great opportunity for all of us in the various countries to get to know each other and provides a window (espeically with the photos) into what the lodge communities and camps are like in each country. The newsletter is especially welcome for the majority of people who have not had the opportunity to travel and meet personally our brothers…read more

Nov.16
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Nature Awareness: Ashokan in November

Posted by in Nature Awareness, November 2014, On Earth

As many of us gather again next weekend on the beautiful land of Ashokan for our Thanksgiving Gathering, Lalania offers us a few glimpses into what we might notice stirring in nature.   YAY, it’s the middle of fall!!  Have you taken time today to look around? What does the air feel like, what trees still have leaves on them? Fall is a great time to sink deeply into what is going on around us in the natural world.  Things are slowing down and the piercing cold of winter is…read more

Camino

Posted by in November 2014, Poetry Circle

Camino Ghost leaved poplars flicker lighten my step their jigsaw bark seeps with story connective tissues and my muscles remember In walking we shed old stories don’t even have to try every beat drop in a little more bits fall onto the road gold wheat horizon and blood red poppies hold the answers Old demons raise up to test us see if we’re willing to say goodbye to the furrowed brows and wrinkled thoughts time to sing out the sad lines I imagine what this place was like before us…read more

Nov.15
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Aoibhe

Posted by in November 2014, Poetry Circle

Aoibhe I am everything you don’t know about me I am what you see, what you get and what you don’t get I am not a mother, lover, sister but millions of cells made from the grandmothers who walked in moontime across mountains barefoot fondling the land that flickers in my eyes now and then I am a word of warrior name sung into songlines, bloodlines, storylines more than my myth and less than you assume I can be a pinch of sun that arrest you, or the unrest of…read more

Nov.15
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