The Wind and The Raven Apothecary

11/05/2025

What historical event fascinates you the most? Human dominance as a disruptive species since the last Ice Age. We humans are, above all, cultural beings. Though our existence is grounded in biology, what truly defines us is not instinct but *enculturation*—the learned ways of perceiving, speaking, and acting that shape our understanding of self and world. Our mother tongue, our daily habits, and the symbols through which we find meaning form our “being-in-the-world.”...

What historical event fascinates you the most? Human dominance as a disruptive species since the last Ice Age. We humans are, above all, cultural beings. Though our existence is grounded in biology…

11/01/2025

Is there an age or year of your life you would re-live? November comes with her cloak of smoke and frost,breathing gold upon the dying leaves,a hush upon the fields where summer’s laughter sleeps.She knocks at my heart like an old friend returning—My birth month reminds me to mark my years circling the sun,as I open the door with paint-stained hands and spirit wide....

Is there an age or year of your life you would re-live? November comes with her cloak of smoke and frost,breathing gold upon the dying leaves,a hush upon the fields where summer’s laughter sleeps.S…

11/01/2025

What does it mean to be a kid at heart? Once, I believed the moon could follow my car,its silver eye winking just for me—a guardian lantern through sleep-soft trees. Fireflies stitched the dusk with light,tiny lantern-keepers of forgotten dreams.Their glow was proof that even the darkhas a heartbeat. Thunder was a giant clapping his hands…...

What does it mean to be a kid at heart? Once, I believed the moon could follow my car,its silver eye winking just for me—a guardian lantern through sleep-soft trees.Fireflies stitched the dusk with…

10/30/2025

What's something you believe everyone should know. Long after the sun sinks, your spirit is already walking—barefoot and bright, whispering to the bones of the Earth,*I see you.*The mists that obscure part for those who remember how to listen. ᚠᛉᛇ The world keeps calling you back to sleep,but you have tasted the old wind of truth,...

What’s something you believe everyone should know. Long after the sun sinks, your spirit is already walking—barefoot and bright, whispering to the bones of the Earth,*I see you.*The mists tha…

10/28/2025

What have you been working on? 🌲Yesterday my dear friend Kathy Stevens and I had a wonderful day of visiting and shared many healing conversations that I'm inspired to share here of what it is I am currently working on. One of the best moments of the day was our stop at Pacific Trading Co. and our deep insights of self work shared with Danielle Lynn....

What have you been working on? 🌲Yesterday my dear friend Kathy Stevens and I had a wonderful day of visiting and shared many healing conversations that I’m inspired to share here of what it i…

10/19/2025

What’s something most people don’t know about you? What’s something most people don’t know about me?Most folks already know I’m a writer — I’ve got about a dozen books out in the world (which still feels wild to say out loud). But what many *don’t* know is that I’m also an artist. 🎨 I draw, paint, and sculpt — sometimes all at once, depending on how caffeinated or possessed by the muse I happen to be....

What’s something most people don’t know about you? What’s something most people don’t know about me?Most folks already know I’m a writer — I’ve got about a dozen books out in the world (which still…

10/12/2025

What have you been putting off doing? Why? I’ve been avoiding a conversation with someone I love, because it’s one of those deeply delicate exchanges where both hearts carry old wounds, both spirits are tender, and both minds move through the world with neurodivergent rhythms that don’t always bend easily toward the calm logic or self-sovereignty that existentialism asks of us....

What have you been putting off doing? Why? I’ve been avoiding a conversation with someone I love, because it’s one of those deeply delicate exchanges where both hearts carry old wounds, both spirit…

10/12/2025

This is a photo of me not giving a damn about your political opinion…. Because the real stuff — the things that actually matter — are out here.In the wind.In the silence of the valley.In the moments that remind you how small all the noise really is. We are on a rock flying through Infinity…there are bigger topics to be discussed....

This is a photo of me not giving a damn about your political opinion…. Because the real stuff — the things that actually matter — are out here.In the wind.In the silence of the valley.In the moment…

10/11/2025

Day 13: Let's all take time to be some poor, phoneless fool this week. 💚

10/11/2025

What skill would you like to learn? Yes. Like barefoot-in-the-mud, sleep-under-the-stars, drink-from-the-river feral. Like full-blown, dirt-under-the-nails, rain-slick hair, howl-at-the-moon, “is-that-a-wolf-or-just-me?” level of feral. Why? Because clearly, returning to my natural roots as an actual Earth creature is the only form of sanity left in a civilization so allergic to reality it thinks "Nature" is an Instagrammable weekend concept, not the literal operating system that makes human life function....

What skill would you like to learn? Yes. Like barefoot-in-the-mud, sleep-under-the-stars, drink-from-the-river feral. Like full-blown, dirt-under-the-nails, rain-slick hair, howl-at-the-moon, “is-t…

10/10/2025

If you had a million dollars to give away, who would you give it to? "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" That is what our nation was founded upon, so where did we go so terribly wrong?...

If you had a million dollars to give away, who would you give it to? “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. S…