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Whenever I want to connect with those who carved the pathways (to life and death), whenever I desperately need the wisdom of elders, I like to lay myself down on the greatest ancestor we have: Earth.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The Earth is the accumulation of our blood, our bones, our grief, our stories, our entire bodies, composted and renewed through the living entity of Earth. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The Earth is made of us.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The Earth is our great ancestor - made of all and who that ever was - and what connects us as relations. We are all related. And we share kinship in the trees and in the fields of wheat and in the columbine that grow on the mountainside, and within the stone of the mountains. We are all related through the intricacies of earth’s expression. This should make us want to be better to each other. To treat each other like the soil is a mutual relative of necessity. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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And so today lets keep it simple.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Let’s lay on the Earth, our eldest Elder. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Let’s lay on the Earth, who recycles our bodies into life force, who grows us into evergreens and throws us up as Ocotillo, and blooms us out as the apothecary rose. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Let’s just go somewhere, outside, underneath the darkening sky, and lay against your old wise grandmother.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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how can i live right now so that i can die in great celebration without a shake in my heart or a tear in my soul? How can I die this season in a way that makes me want to embrace life hard and full and that each breath I take it swollen with attention and intention and reformation? how can i die so i can live to serve? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#deathseassions #tarot #fall #ancestors #earth #writing #ritual

Palinay, muñecas indígenas

Hola Paula. Encontré tus muñecas atacameñas de paño y yerbas, estas bellas que son hatillos medicinales de especias y aromáticas. La Cocinera es mi brujita! aunque me gustaría tanto si me dedicaras una línea para describir la medicina de cada una. ❤ Me pregunto si puedes enviar a España, y cuánto me costaría.🙏 Tengo familia en Mexico, y una llamada muy fuerte dentro de mí. Bendiciones, querida, y feliz luna nueva esta noche.✨ Samanta xx 😊

- Hola....

Jiji hablaba de tus muñequitas en mi último post hace unos minutos...

- Hace un tiempo envie a España... tendria que co sultar en correos de Chile que fue el medio que ocupé. Pero recuerfo que el envio costo dl doble del costo de la muñeca. Pero pir western union era peor costaba el valor de 8 muñecas🙄

Asia por mi tía-abuela que no conocí, pero que sigue de un modo muy mágico uniendo a las mujeres de la linea matrilinea...

A mí me envían cosas desde USA por DHL o por UPS... no sé qué tanto costaría.....

- Ahh... si tambien valoramos y enseñamos a las niñas que revuerden y guarden en la memoria su linaje femenino

Qué vale una muñequita, Paula?

- Tengo que consultar

20.000 pesos chilenos

26 euros aprox

Lo miras y me dices algo, sino veremos...

ah y me puedes escribir en unas palabras la descripción de cada muñequita? creo que la cocinera es la mía, pero me gustaría leer sobre cada una.🙏 Mucho. Por favor.💖

- Ya.... voy a averiguar cuanto es el costo de envio pir esas empresas yle cuento. Justamente hoy estoy en Santiago y hay mas opciones...

Hola Paula! Me recibes? Soy Samanta, recién hablamos por el face sobre las muñequitas. Me encantará escuchar de tu propia voz la historia de la medicina de cada muñequita atacameña de paño y yerbas. Me considero muy afortunada por ello. Como te decía, creo que la Cocinera es la mía, pero quiero conocer a cada una de estas bellas tan especiales. Ya hablamos también sobre posibles modos de envío a España. Gracias y un saludo afectuoso!!

Mi primacha querida, que vive en Mexico, se hará cargo de la muñequita para mí. Será a través de su marido, que va super seguido a Chile

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Decirte también que escuché con mucho amor la primera historia medicina, la de la Cocinera. Pero esperaré a escuchar la medicina de cada una de las bellas para estar segura que verdaderamente la cocinera es la muñequita para mí! Luego te escribiré contándote porqué, pues leí en tu face que las haces personalizadas. ❤

- Sí son personalizadas

- Hoy te envio más audios

Buenos días, Paly! Espero estés disfrutando mucho tu vuelta al hogar. Te cuento que las siguientes bellas que más ganas tengo de conocer son la yerbatera, la curandera, la pastora.. 💗

Querida Paly, bendiciones por tus historias medicina. Las escuché todas anoche, y esta noche las estoy volviendo a escuchar..

Te cuento las que más me han llamado, lo que pensado, y alguna duda que no veo clara

Ah también quería decirte que creo que te faltó contarme la historia de la Truequera, y de la Recolectora jiji

De las otras, las que más llaman a la puerta de mi espíritu: Cocinera, Yerbatera, Guerrera, Panadera (es la Amasadora?), Aguadora, Hilandera y Tejedora.

Así como sí entiendo la diferencia entre Yerbatera y Curandera, no acabo de VER la diferencia entre Hilandera y Tejedora.

De estas muñequitas que me llaman, necesitaría ver una foto con sus elementos alquímicos y medicinales!! 🙏🏼 Creo que en la distancia, me ayudaría mucho a identificar la mía.

Y por último, contarte una reflexión a ver qué opinas: la Pastora está clarísimo que es el rol que tuve durante muchos años como profesora. Trabajé con personitas entre 12 - 18 años como profesora de lengua inglesa. En esos años fui una persona muy influyente, amalgamé grupos, incentivé su propia voz, les nació el gusto por aprender cosas nuevas, me querían mucho mis alumnos, y ellos fueron mis mejores compañeros de trabajo. Sin embargo, por un problema de salud hace 4 años que lo dejé. Y es curioso. Lo que te quiero contar. Que no siento para nada que la Pastora sea la muñequita que representa mi arquetipo espiritual.. Quizá por eso hay veces en que ciertas actividades nos desgastan hasta el punto de enfermarnos por dentro. Abrazo!

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MY DRESSING YOUR TRUTH EXPERIENCE AS A TYPE 2 WOMAN

Ha ido MUY BIEN!! 😀

Por 50 euros (vale descuento 6 euros) tengo ropita nueva de temporada muy bonita para pasar la temporada de frío que viene en la cabañita! Por cierto, algodón, algodón y algodón.

He invertido un total de +3h 30 min fuera de casa, y concretamente en el Decathlon estuve aprox. +1h 30 min. Me fui prácticamente a las 13:00, y he vuelto a las 16:30 horas. 

Paseé con Gusti (entramos en Tienda Animal, porque es un marujo y le gusta mucho más que a mí ir de tiendas), y también estuve luego en el Leroy Merlin con Gusti, pero eran tres cosillas, dos no las vi a la primera, y el resto ya no me compensaba, que ha ido super bien en el decathlon, vamos a dejarlo ahí en lo alto! Puse 20 euros de gasoil en el ibiza jijii!! 
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Voy a preparme algo para comer, que estoy en keto-semiayuno desde el café adaptagénico de por la mañana:
café + 
leche de almendra con pasta de cúrcuma, canela y jenjibre molidos + 
1 cp aceite de coco + 
péptidos de colágeno. 
#herbalcoffeelatte #adaptogeniccoffeevibe

y mi receta de ayer para Crispy Egg-Free Paleolicious Crêpe, que esta tarde se transformó en Crispy Egg-Free Paleolicious Curry (ya tampoco yo puedo estar sin curry, por influencia de las últimas curry-keto recetas que ha descubierto en sus fogones Cristina Maria Curp, The Castaway Kitchen) Crêpe: le añadí a la mezcla para la masa 1 cp péptidos colágeno + a magical dash of curry! Oh how I love curry, and I'm looking forwar to buy or grind my own blend of gluten-free ras el hanout (recipe somewhere here this blog before).

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Por los colores que he comprado de ropa, sin ninguna duda, puedo montar esta paleta:
[dark blue (navy) + pink + beige + grey]

Charming Living Room

This charming living room is the first one thing that I have found in these exact colors when I have arrived to my little cottage in the mountains. I guess they suit the type 2 color palette from dressing your truth. In fact, one of the main things that made that things flowed today in the cloth store was that I hit the mark: there was an environment of blissful tranquility that pervaded all the few assistants to whom I addressed as a kind woman.

Our Heritage of Health

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Crispy Egg-Free Paleolicious Crêpe

My recipe for this afternoon. It's 5:00 pm, and I'm starting to feel real hunger (vs. appetite, anxiety) after another natural semi intermittent fasting. Yikes!!😋

only 3 ingredients:

2 tbsp cassava flour #AIP 

almond milk #Paleo

olive oil

Mix well in a bowl. Pour and spread batter on the skillet. Roast both sides.

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ham (cast iron skillet, no olive oil required)

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A little adaptogenic coffee vibe this morning

(mine with almond milk + ground cinnamon + ground ginger  + ground turmeric + 1 tsp collagen protein peptides + 1 tsp coconut oil)

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Will Frolic For Food

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The Castaway Kitchen

Are you keto? No, I am not keto, I just eat that way, most of the time.
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If you enjoy the benefits of ketosis, great! It's a metabolic state with some amazing benefits. It's not a food list, it's not a religion, it's not a defining factor in who you are.
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Food is nourishment. Food is life. Food is medicine. But the way you eat, well, those choices can define how you feel, how you function, and while they can take up a lot of space in your life, being dogmatic about it doesn't do you any good. What if what you do one day stops working for you, but you are so hell-bent on sticking with it, it's such a big part of your identity you harm yourself instead of change your habits?
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Keto, paleo, AIP... these are tools I use to heal, to feel my best, but they don't define me as a person. I use these tools because I like to live a life free of chronic pain and inflammation. I use these tools instead of taking immunosuppressants, painkillers, cortisol shots, proton inhibitor, ibuprofen... and the list goes on. I do what I need to do to thrive.
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My approach might seem rigid to some... and yet to others, I might be all over the map. Listen, I've said it once and I will say it again... THERE IS NO ONE SIZE FITS ALL path to health. There is no one approach that wins them all. Eat real food. Move your body. Sleep. Don't overeat, but eat enough. Commit to investing in yourself. Commit to being a detective for your own health. Commit to always learning.
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I’ve added a new page to my blog: Food Is Medicine with links to posts that breakdown Keto | Paleo | AIP and some questions you can ask yourself about each approach, because I don’t have all the answers for you... but you have the power to figure it out for yourself.
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https://thecastawaykitchen.com/food-as-medicine/

The Earth Medicine Archetypal Womyn ※

http://learnthefiveelements.com/5-elements-quiz/

Eartha + Uma = Kapha

The Five Elements consist of

• WATER Archetype of the philosopher or the kore.
• WOOD Archetype of the pioneer or warrior.
• FIRE Archetype of the wizard or comedian.
• EARTH Archetype of the witch or priestess.
• METAL Archetype of the queen or alchemist.

Everyone marches to one of these five drummers. We gravitate toward an environment that suits our character; similarly, it's easiest to develop in áreas where we have natural talent. (book)

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The quality of being is shared by all four primary feminine archetypes, but it is a specialty of the Earth Mother. This archetype symbolizes the feminine aspect of our instinct for activity. Her partner is the Warrior. The aim of both is power and success and each uses our energy in different ways: he for doing, she for being. Of everything associated with femininity, being is perhaps most misunderstood. In the Western world we link it with passivity, indolence, powerlessness, and victimization. In an effort to avoid such stigmas, many of us overrule our natural inclinations and force ourselves to stay busy.

Where his emphasis is on the product, hers is on the process. She defines power and success as becoming completed through developing intimate relationships with our bodies, our unconscious selves, other people, nature, and the cycles of life. Like the fertility goddesses who carry her image, the human mothers who carry out her mission, and the planet Earth which carries life, the Earth Mother archetype creates, nurtures, births and protects new life in us.

She’s the part of us that honors the truths of our souls and our particular way of being, regardless of how different we might be. Her self-awareness and sensory savvy show us where to relax our wills and support otherness, how to relinquish our obsessive doing and busyness, when to let go of our children and other attachments, and when to accept life’s activity upon us instead of forcing it to serve our purposes. Her receptive beingness is actually a creative form of giving that promotes growing and becoming.

To be this receptive does not mean we are always flowing about without an anchor. It just means we have reverence for transcendent powers and uncontrollable natural forces and do not struggle needlessly against them. Earth Mother’s receptivity is as stabilizing as it is free-flowing. As David Rosen, author of The Tao of Jung says, “The Tao (the Way) is both fixed and moving at the same time.” It is fixed in its respect for the sacredness of life; it moves in accordance with the natural evolution of life.

Chu Hsi, a commentator on the Tao Te Ching, said this: “The female is one who receives something and, with it, creates. This creative principle is the most marvelous thing in the universe.” This is true feminine power.

- https://jeanraffa.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/the-earth-mother-archetype/ 💚
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Earth is nourishment. The kitchen is the place of the quintaessential earth type.
- Creating Luminous Spaces: Use the Five Elements for Balance and Harmony in Your Home and in Your Life by Maureen K. Calamia
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Bruja. La mujer que habla con las plantas y las estrellas. - Luna Gwyllt

Brujas: mujeres de poder, magia y conocimiento ancestral

La conjuradora es una mujer profundamente conectada a la tierra. Mujer ritual. Es magia y espíritu, y trabajadora de las raíces espirituales. Hechicera-sacerdotisa-pastora. Bruja. La que no tiene nombre. La oradora más antigua. Está conectada. Es la frecuencia, la vibración y el campo. La bruja, a pesar de que a menudo somos poco claros acerca de lo qué implica esa palabra. Ella es la hacedora. Ella es su propio templo, su propio lugar de adivinación.

Dominique Christina

La pequeña bruja escandinava que trae bendiciones durante la Pascua

Una bruja de la Pascua (easter witch en inglés, påskkärring en sueco, y pääsiäisnoita, en finés) es la figura central de la tradición escandinava llamada Virvonta o Virpominen, la cual se lleva a cabo durante la Pascua en Finlandia y Suecia. La visita de las brujas de Pascua sucede durante su vuelo a la montaña de Blåkulla, donde acuden con sus calderos o viejas cafeteras para celebrar allí una fiesta.

Incluso ahora, muchas personas siguen mirando en la påskkärring el remanente de la antigua sacerdotisa-bruja que bendecía la tierra y oficiaba alegres ritos para celebrar la llegada de la primavera y el renacimiento de la vida sobre la tierra. "Virvon, varvon, tuoreeks terveeks, tulevaks vuodeks; vitsa sulle, palkka mulle!" (Sacudo una ramita para que el año que tenemos por delante sea próspero y saludable; ¡una ramita para ti, y un regalito para mí!).

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The primal Archetype of Water relates to the vastness and the depths of the unconscious mind. Jung observed long ago that the unconscious mind was much vaster than the conscious portion. His insight has been confirmed by fascinating developments in neuroscience, where new technologies, such as particularly sophisticated MRIs have enabled brain scientists to see that the unconscious processes in the brain dwarf the conscious mind in magnitude.

The Philosopher gives birth to new ideas—her power percolates in the deep inner chasm of the mind. Water is characterized by the Philosopher. A Water type lives in the interior, preoccupied with seeking truth and exploring hidden mysteries through the medium of imagination.

The Water archetype is the Philosopher who brings to light that which is hidden, uncovering new knowledge, dispelling mystery, eroding ignorance. Like an old–time prospector, she sifts through the gravel of notions and beliefs, tireless in her effort to apprehend the nature of reality. Time is the pick and shovel of the Philosopher who exhumes the bones of culture that endure, doggedly in search of truth. Able to envision what can be, she is critical of what is. As the custodian of our ancestral memories and dreams, she articulates our aspirations.

- https://chinesemedicineworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/five_types.pdf 💙

TÚUMBEN K’ÓOBEN

Hoy POR FIN curé y estrené mi sartén de hierro mineral De Buyer.😅🍳🔥 
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On this Indigenous Peoples Day Id like to honor the woman who raised me and her family. This is four generations of resiliency! this picture represents the backbone of Mexico, the women who work the hardest and give the most. Susana in blue, fed me the most nourishing loving meals, her food shaped me and healed me. Food is a conduit for love. Susana fed me culture, ancient traditions and remembering. Her huazontles and verdolagas en chile verde are the most delicious meals i've ever had! Today I rejoice in the love for wild foods she instilled in me and the art of cooking. She taught me that service is being available to love, she taught me everything through example. I am who I am today thanks to the transmissions of authenticity and integrity that I received daily from this brave soul. Indigenous people do their work, humbly and with dignity. These women carry themselves with unpretentious pride and earthly beauty. Susana's love radiates through the smiles of all the people she's touched. She was not a nanny, she was a mother, every woman who feeds and cares for the young must be acknowledged for their maternal love. Blessed be the mamas, may we acknowledge our kin and praise the hands that shaped us. - Centehua Sage.

- Foto: TÚUMBEN K’ÓOBEN: LAS ESTUFAS AHORRADORAS DE LEÑA QUE PROTEGEN LA SALUD DE LAS MUJERES MAYAS. Estas estufas se construyen en la comunidad de Turcio, en el municipio de Villa Victoria, Estado de México, con materiales locales como el sascab –una roca calcárea-, nopal licuado, cáscara de elote desmenuzada y tierra roja, además de cemento.

Words are the original enchantments - A Charmed Life

One Willow Apothecaries · 21 de agosto

A Charmed Life

Words are the original enchantments. Whenever I feel lost in the static of things, or like the taste has gone out of life, I reach for new words to describe what I’m seeking. A new mantra to call in that intangible longing. And when I speak those perfect turns of poetry, I realize that, just by settling into the precise sweetness of that new phrase, the dream is already arriving. Speaking the hidden worlds inside our hearts is powerful, and delightful. And is the first step to conjuring all the loveliness we so deserve in our lives.

So today, I’m calling in *a charmed life*. An existence marked by small delights and peaceful stream sides. Where I receive the unexpected visitors of wonder daily, like hummingbirds come to gaze at the roses on my shift. A life touched by embroidered edges and fireflies. Where luck has a seat at the table, and we eat maple biscuits together at tea time.

This is my incantation for the day. And it fills me with honey just to speak it. What’s yours??

One Willow Apothecaries · 10 de octubre

There is a thread that runs through the long tapestry of time. A line that connects us back to our grandmothers and great grandmothers and the lineage of womyn who came before. On a loom, each downward string is called a warp. Like time, these warp strings are the backbone that holds the weaving in place. But it is the generations of mothers and aunties, the horizontal weft woven in-between, that fill the loom with life. It is these weft strings, the threads of connection that travels across the space and time, that pulls everything together.

It is from this continuing weft of women that we each come into life.

Connecting back into the power-held lineage of our female ancestors isn’t simply a flight of fancy or genealogical curiosity. To remember the women that came become you, and call upon that distinctly matrilineal magic, is an act of deep reclamation. By calling back we continue the weaving begun from the fingers of our female ancestors, that very first spindle-spun weft.

Though it has been a long time since matrilineal cultures flourished in our world, everything moves in a circle, like the round of a harvesting song or the curve of a well-coiled vase. A world in which we value the power of blood that flows with the moon as much as blood that flows from a wound has already seen its wane and its new moon. Now, we are in the time of the waxing.

It has been many generations since every woman was recognized as the vessel of power that she is, but even now our women ancestors remain close, whispering to us of the waxing to come. Matrilineal magic is a deep and ancient kind of craft. One that will never be forgotten as long as we continue to seek and honor the threads that connect us back.

From: https://onewillowapothecaries.com/matrilineal-magic/

Erin Gergen Halls  · 11 de octubre

There are many shades of magic that come from learning an Ancestral Language.

For instance, some time ago, I posted an article about "the magical vision hidden in the Irish language". Words like "cáithnín" - a speck of dust, husk of corn, snowflake, subatomic particle, smidge of butter, but also, the goosebumps you feel in moments when you contemplate how everything is interrelated. And, the word "scim" - the thin coating of tiny particles, and also the fairy film that covers the land, or a magical vision, or succumbing to the supernatural world through sleep. Or the word "púicín" - which means a blindfold, goat muzzle, tin shade over a cow’s eyes, but can also refer to a supernatural covering that allows otherworldly beings to be unseen in this reality.

That article washed over me and flowed through me like a current, warming me like whiskey from head to toe. I printed it out and saved it as the first pages of my language lessons binder. To drink in and savor. Then, more recently, I stumbled across an interview with a Irishman named Machán Magan, discussing his two theatrical performances. The first, "Arán & Im (Bread & Butter)", is a celebration of the Irish language in which Mr. Magan bakes sourdough bread for 70 minutes, while offering insights into the wonders of the language - exploring potent words of landscape, terms of intuition and insight, and the many phrases that bring to life the mysterious glory of the natural world - then culminates with freshly-baked traditional bread for the audience to slice and spread with butter they've churned themselves from Irish cream.

And, the second performance/installation, "Gaeilge Tamagotchi", where audience members are invited to wind through a labyrinth of raw Irish linen to receive, and adopt, an endangered Irish word from the artist, which they agree to nurture, nourish, and take guardianship of. They each receive a word unique to them and are given the opportunity to print or paint their word on stone, oak-wood, or linen, as a ritualistic covenant. Words like "súghóg" - the stain left by tears. And, "iarmhaireacht" - the loneliness at cock-crow. Or, "sclimpíní" - the light dancing before one’s eyes. I mean, whew. I cried when I read that, and knew I had to connect with Mr. Magan! I emailed him immediately, and went to reference that first article, in my binder, to share it with him,...only to find that HE was the author of it! Well, of course he was! He also was lovely and inspiring in his reply, and it motivated me to add his vision to my language learning process.

So, I scour Irish dictionaries, and dictionaries of Anglo-Irish, and circle words that resonate. Words that spark something in me for any reason. I'll choose a word, and take the word on, take it in, let it roll around in me, and roll off my tongue. I'll work it into sentences. I'll make sketches around its meaning. And, I share the discovery of it with my Ancestors, the ones who inspired this entire endeavor. Keeping the language alive keeps Them alive. It is a gift we pass between us.

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