BIOWHAT?

I have been pushing and pushing and pushing the biodynamic shpeal for EVER right? and NOW dun dun duh!

There is a great beautiful giant article in the catalyst about biodynamic/organic wines, YAY!!
www.catalystmagazine.net check check check it out!!

i am SO excited this season to be planting and learning alongside so many amazing friends, I really feel like this more than any other year is my 'green year' ....shit the green man @ BMan was nothing!!

So does anyone want to grow some mushrooms with me? you know, the maitake type? :) not the silly psychedelic ones, but the delicious nutritious one that help the world heal?!!

I am working on healing my own life through mushrooms, and I want to learn and grow my own....anyone in?

check out fungiperfecti.com

this site, and the man (Paul Stemets) rocks!!

so, anyone a little weirded out that there are still snowstorms happening after our 73 degree stint?

I just want to dig in the dirt gosh darnit!!

ah well another day another way.

hope you are having the best day ever,

make a list of 100 goals you'd like to accomplish in the next year.....ready, set go!

there's nothing that can stop you when you make it a point to be successful in your dreams and goals.

Lots of new new new things to be excited about!

Well it seems that just when I think things quiet down in my life, they just stir right back up again? Just the vortex of my existance!

Well I've started a little biodynamic farming group that I'm kind of excited about...I'm exploring the possiblity of garden magic through the preparations!
I've even started a facebook group and a website for it!!
check it out here

stay updated, because we'll have a lot of fun learning and growing community stuff coming up...chances to learn about a healthier existance in fun and interesting ways....

Also my personal site, featherchild.com
will be done most likely within the week, also something to look forward to....


My life has been filled with creation lately, as my finger is finally starting to heal up proper!!
I'm very excited to get back to finishing all my 1/2 started creations and finally moving on to getting through to the new stuff!!

I'm thinking I'm headed back to California in March to learn EVEN MORE about biodynamics as it applies to gardening...

i'm also thinkin of starting a Eurythmy group to get together and intend to learn some new systems of movement out of some pieces of written word....weiiiird i know.

well hope you're having a great night!

xo
Moonchild

Sunday Sweet Sunday

Today has been filled with new things...

As I woke up this morning I stuck to my Sunfood goal of reading and comprehending a chapter along with my roommates....

This morning @ breakfast we read together about the foundational law  that is 'things produce after their own kind...as ye sow, so shall ye reap'

Good things are produced from good and reinforced behaivors....yA duh!

now is where I must set up my self discipline...

The question asked @ the end of the chapter is 

 What is the TRUE cause of my foremost health challenge?

Instinctively my first response was SUGARS!! and then I realize that is really just my conditioned diet response...I freaking say that all the time, but I have really done a pretty good job with replacing all the 'bad' sugars in my diet with good ones (mmm dates!)

So what is it really ?  I thought maybe coffee and caffiene...because that seems to be an thing I have a really hard time ridding myself of...mostly because I like it and I don't really have the desire to replace it or eliminate it in my life... So call it addiction call it whatever you will, I have named coffee as a possible challenge

But I think even more so than the dreaded caffiene would really just be my inconsistency in diet....I'm excited to learn more about how to balance my mostly raw lifestyle against some of the less than stellar food choices I have a tendency to cave for (fast foods...frozen foods etc)

I find that for every like 10 raw meals I have like 2 things in my week that are gross haha (but so good)

So to find a better balance will be my true answer for what my TRUE foremost health challenge..

:)

I had a lot of fun thrifting with my roomates and I am happy to report that my wall that seems to have taken FOREVER!!! is almost done!!!!!

YAY...pictures are sure to follow soon!! 

and yay steelers...I didnt have a team to root for really or a tv to watch the superbowl, but am happy for Pittsburgh nonetheless!!

Are we watching whats going on in the world today?/?/

check this OUT!

ALGAE!

starting to examine and reinvent....as always :)

As an active part of trying to change and improve the parts of me that are not as healthy as I'd like them to be, I've decided to work actively through Davids sunfood book and actively answer and report on the things i'm doing to journal and record my progress.

The book, David Wolfe's Sunfood Success Diet is about achieving balance and health through raw foods....something I have been more and more interested in but relatively uneducated and naive about....if you are interested in a copy i think you can buy one from his personal site davidwolfe.com

if you are interested in asking yourself these questions, I would fully support your own endeavors and would love to hear the things you've discovered....

David Wolfe Sunfood Success Diet

chapter 1 ACTION STEP JOURNALING

what type of person do I have to become to experience radiant health?

The answer to this question for me has to be one that is conscious and aware of the food and products she is surrounding herself with and choosing the absolute best for the correct circumstances.  Putting food in my body that feel great through and through and working to to remove the things in my body that are not helping me.  I have at points in my life felt like I have achieved radiant health, by adding things like organic foods/ cutting down on refined sugars/bread/complex carbohydrates/starches as well as involving myself in activities like yoga and climbing and things that keep me active and flexible....

I know I have to become a person of self discipline, one that keeps herself in check in aworld surrounded by things that are unhealthy, and for the fact that a lot of my friends/family still choose a lifestyle/dietary choices that are not ones that support the idea in my mind that is radiant health....

When thinking about this question I started to think about the word RADIANT and the word HEALTH and what are the legitimate dictionary definitions of these words

Radiant is an adjective defined as emitting rays of light/shining bright/bright with joy,hope

Health is defined as a noun....the general condition of the body or mind with reference to sound or vigor/freedom from disease/ailment...

So radiant health in essence is the the condition of the body or mind emitting shining light.

A vehicle of light....something I have always written of myself....I am love and light....

how do I become that person as quickly as possible while enjoying the process?

I think that this book and my active process through it and what I learn by begin surrounded and involved in a community that is actively seeking out things for health and beauty that are sustainable and delicious will help to propel me into the lifestyle/person of optimal health that I ultimately want to become.

Enjoying the process happens in the mode of discussion and discovery for me....I love to share what I've learned...so lucky for you hehe, that means more journal entries outta me!!

WOOT.

Hope everyones Saturday is sunshiney bright.

In other news, I get a new bed today YAY!

I also go back to teaching kids yoga tonight, which is very exciting for me since its been over a month now that I've been able to teach due to the severing of my tendons!

I don't get to demonstrate anything but I am really excited to see all the beautiful children that fill my heart with joy!!

tis the season.

Seasons greetings one and all.

I figured that in the holiday spirit, I would follow suit and fill you in with a little pictoral of my life so far ....

It seems that because I'm a Gemini...in my rising, moon and sun sign that everything in my life experiences rapid change. Mercury has the shortest trip around the sun, and thus goes through the quickest transitions.

I have moved for the last time this year, that I can guarantee....that would put my moving tally @ 8 this year.

I don't think I can handle anymore, and I am really glad to say I LOVE where I live. I get to take care of a geodesic greenhouse that is in my backyard, and I am becoming mre and more obsessed with anthroposophy and biodynamics...and will be headed to Redwood Valley in January for the winter meeting.

I guess you could sum most things up with the fact that there is just never a dull moment in my life.

Here is my new roommate Steve, he owns our house. I have a lot of fun discussing things I'm actually interested in with him. Its nice to live and exist around people that are on the same vibrational level as you.

This is my new friend Skye Jones, apparently he is a local art celeb around Salt Lake...I've never heard of him :) that doesn't mean he doesn't exist.

And this is my dear friend Meggio....she and I are going to change the world one plant at a time. :) I am very excited by her little monster ball earrings, a meggio creation!!

Heres one of the latest and greatest of my own making...a fuzzy warm grim reaper hoody to go on anything you choose...it's pretty much the only the thing I snuggle with everyday

This is my newest sweetie Simone...she's been mine only a week...I'm trying to introduce her to a raw diet...and as you can see, she's not too excited....

what a face!

Actually shes the only cat that will put up with Suki's shenanigans.

Speaking of Suki!! She hardly ever sits still long enough to have her picture taken!

She just turned one in November...its been an amazing year with her, as she is my true friend and companion through life. We have so much fun and laugh all the time !!:)

This is pretty much the best I could do while she was up and about. What a cutie butt.

Here is Simone putting up with the daily Suki sniffdown...

My latest big purchase.....SUSAN!! Susie if we're getting along!!

Finally moved back into the lane of having 4 wheels....its been a minute since I had Bridgette, but being a luxury car, Susan has all that and more, Bridgette almost cant compete...

From our hearts to yours, I wish you the absolute best through the holiday season.

You are all so special to me and hold such a beautiful spot in my life, I couldn't be more grateful.

Thank you for being in my life, and many blessings....Namaste

so much has happened

its pretty impossible to cover it all
i'll hit the highlights.

1.Randi got married
2.I went to Burning Man, fell in love with myself in a few ways....
3.I started making boots, which i have decided will be my career
4.I moved to a beautiful house
5.I run a kickass greenhouse
6.I cleansed, which was hard...but now i'm skinny ultra groovy superstar! haha i'm looking fab (i promise thats not th reason i did it.....i feel great too)
7.I'm dreading the holidays because yet again i will be alone
8.I have been traveling a lot lately, and that has been the only thing to keep me truly sane
9.Today the person I love most in life told me they never wanted to see me or speak to me ever again.
10. i'm not sure if i'm sad of excited about it
11.life is busy with work and new challenges, does anyone have a guide to how to manage it all?

12. GLAD to finally figure out how to follow peoples blogs, so now hopefully I will be better in touch with some of you foolios
13. Love and gratitude for each and everyday and the surprises and opportunities they bring, keeps life flowing like the ocean.....ebb and flow.



:)
xooxoxoxo

you know you're in it when...

....the horoscope that comes out in the local paper every Wednesday really dictates when you start your week....