Category: FLORA&FAUNA

Celebrating the Solstice: Yule Tea

Celebrate the Winter Solstice with this immune boosting, and deliciously earthy yule herbal tea recipe

“This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath, the door of a vanished house left ajar.” – Margaret Atwood The winter solstice comes tomorrow, how do you celebrate this …

Rosemary: Rooting for Remembrance

Rosemary is an incredible, beautiful, magical plant. Read about it's history and learn how to succesfully grown your own!

“As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.” – Thomas Moore The season is changing quickly. Plants are beginning to wither; the process …

Yarrow: Achillea the Ally

Yarrow, or Achillea is an incredible flowering herb that has long been known for it's incredible medical and gardening applications, read more at www.TheTenaciousCrasis.com

“These are edible too,” I say, moving forward and touching the feathery leaf of a paprika colored flower, “It’s called Yarrow – I’ve heard of people using the petals like a natural type of confetti in birthday cake and such. It’s a really impressive plant, actually, it can be dried and grou-,” the woman I’m …

Charlie: A Dog’s Life

charlie the adventure dog

“What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.” – Robert Brault I believe that soulmates come in all forms, and that no one person is limited to one. I believe in souls that are meant to cross paths, or care for each other, or teach …

Catnip: Sow a Little Magic

Catnip is an incredible wild herb

“And where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.” – Dar Williams Last year a weed popped up just outside of our back door. By some kind of luck no one ever got around to pulling it. We noticed Leroy payed it special attention, and I suspected then that it might …

On Loss and Love: Mourning a Friend

On Loss and Love: Mourning a Friend

The following post was written before something truly amazing happened. Though the loss that prompted it’s writing is no longer applicable, I have decided to go on and post it anyways. The lessons remain the same, and the pain was still real. My boy had gone missing for quite a while. He was an indoor/outdoor …

Conifers: the Constant Companions

Young Conifer Needles for Tea

“Some of my kin look just like trees now, and need something great to rouse them; and they speak only in whispers. But some of my trees are limb-lithe, and many can talk to me.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien Spring is in full swing now. Every day I find myself acknowledging the returned life of a …

Responsibility for Your Dependents is Your Most Reliable Source of Accountability

Jack the curly, www.TheTenaciousCrasis.Com

I’m going to touch on the subject of responsibility, obligation and accountability as a source to drive you to lead a healthier life. If you have any living thing that you are responsible for, be it children or pets, you are obligated to provide for them a healthy, active, and engaging life. End of story. …