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Happy Sunny Oil
I just finished making dandelion oil. This is a wonderful happy sunny event. Let me share my old herbal journal notes: May 5, 2007: Put fresh dandelion blossoms in safflower oil, in crockpot for maybe five hours. (I forgot it … Continue reading
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Tagged appointment, back, bath, blog, Blossoms, body, book, covered, crockpot, dandelion, feet, flower, flowers, Francesca De Grandis, fresh, happy, healing, herbal, hurt, infused, instructions, joints, love, making, miracle, Miracles, oil, olive, practical, practicality, safflower, session, shaman, sore, Spring, sunny, Susun Weed, wonderful
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My cat has a flair for the ridiculous.
Google bought YouTube so, after my vid, my other vids start. Or vids that have nothing to do with me. Argh! If you know a way to embed from my YouTube channel without this happening, pls tell me. Til then, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Writing, and Music, Spirit
Tagged blog, book, books, cat, cute, Dust, faerie, Francesca De Grandis, funny, kitty, ridiculous
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How to Tell If Someone Is a Grownup
How to tell if someone is a grownup: Treat them like a peer. Honor how extraordinary they are. If they angrily respond “You can’t power trip me, you’re not my mother!” they’re not a grownup. ———— Sprinkling Faerie Dust on … Continue reading
“Do what you feel in your heart…”
Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, damned if you don’t. —Eleanor Roosevelt ———– Fellow elves, witches, wanderers, druids, Unitarian Universalists, and other star-dusted mythic travelers, start each … Continue reading
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Tagged art, blog, book, druid, elf, Francesca De Grandis, Unitarian, universalist
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Haiku
Into the winter, I lack words for my feelings. But I do trust them. ************** Beloved Fellow Seeker, Thank you for your spiritual journey, because I can’t grow spiritually alone. I wrote a book, out of gratitude for you and … Continue reading
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Tagged author, blog, book, Breakfast, Busy, Buy, children, daily, De Grandis, DeGrandis, Dust, faerie, feelings, Francesca, Francesca De Grandis, grow, haiku, journey, lack, Parents, path, picture, poem, Reader, reading, Seeker, spiritual, Sprinkling, travelers, trust, winter, words
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Writer’s Silly Gratitude Moment . . . with Cat
Scroll down for a silly gratitude moment: me waving proofed index pages around (good grief! But I was happy, plus I like sharing my writing process) after I finally finished proofing galleys. My cat helped! And the book is available … Continue reading
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Tagged blog, book, books, cat, Francesca De Grandis, silly, writer
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Revised Back Cover and Cute Kitty Pic
Hiya, ok, I created more white space. It took finagling, so most of the changes are subtle. But they made a huge difference, at least to me; the overall visual flow seems to evoke magic, though maybe I am deluded … Continue reading
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Tagged book, books, c ute, Francesca De Grandis, kitten, kitty, pic, self-publshing, writer's life
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Updates re My Book, the Fundraiser, and My “Authorly” Life
Hiya, the fundraiser brought in a total of $675, for which I am crazy-grateful. I feel such love for and from everyone who helped! I hope the gratitude I expressed to each of them (privately) conveyed my enormous appreciation. I’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged art, blog, book, books, cute, Francesca De Grandis, kittens, self-publishing, talismanic
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A Self-Publishing Author’s Life
Hiya, Everything will be ready to go the printer within a week or two. Right now, I’m proofing galleys. How’s this for crazy: Write a book, create graphics, have graphics for almost every page, do the book cover, do the … Continue reading
