Cover of “Resolution” I meant to put “resolution” but I like the idea of “revolution.” It sounds like I mean it…or else like I’m about to invade a small country. I’m not sure what I’d do with the country once invaded, though. These are my big plans – such as they are – for 2009: [...]

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Image by Irish Typepad via Flickr I hate Americanized Mexican chain restaurants. The food tastes wrong to me – it’s hot spicy, almost but not quite burning your tongue off, and after a few bites I always have to push it away and make do with the chips and salsa that seem to grow on [...]

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After more than 10 years admiring the casual issue, I finally started a subscription to the Herb Companion. I’m beside myself with delight – it’s well balanced, interesting and it always gives me a new way to think of and look at plants that I might have looked at a million times before. Ever-greedy for [...]

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I scored another treasury – and this is what I did with it this time! Please give these sellers some much deserved exposure by giving the treasury a click and a comment. Share on Facebook

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I understand that the whole “goodwill towards men” can take some work. “May all beings have happiness and the causes of happiness May all beings be away from sorrow and the causes of sorrow May all beings know peace and the causes of peace May all beings ever be part of the great happiness and [...]

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Image via Wikipedia The frenzy’s still going. I know it, you know it, and you might just be escaping into your blog feeds just as a way of escaping the rest of the world or because, like me, you sometimes become compulsively attached to the Internet. I’m not going to recommend you go smell lavender [...]

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Asafoetida is, according to those who have never encountered the Corpse Flower, the foulest smelling plant ever. I’d read about it in my early occult st udies and  I had a rough understanding of its use a s a tool to make everything  disappear from demons to your mother-in-law because of the sheer repellent nature [...]

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I’m sure many of you are very, VERY alert and uncommonly tense/distracted this Monday morning. Rather than overburden you, I thought I’d share this little bit of holiday nifty I discovered at Surdyk’s in northeast Minneapolis last week. Share on Facebook

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It’s my holiday, or our holiday (depending on who’s here or how you look at holidays.) Whatever this day does or doesn’t meant to you, I wish you great cheer, much happiness, and goodness to you with the return of the sun. From Rent, by the late Jonathan Larson “The opposite of war isn’t peace. [...]

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I’m a perfume bottle collector, which often conflicts with my compartively new unclutter values. Someday I do hope to show you my perfume collection, but the crafter in me who’s done too many shows wants to create a multi-level display for them and the organizer in me is still pining for a suction-cup hanging rack [...]

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