Tag Archives: nature

Trust the Singing in Your Cells

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Francesca De Grandis

Trust the Singing in Your Cells Humans are part of the earth. We too have a permaculture. We can know it authoritatively if we watch our bodies and spirits as patiently and analytically as a farmer watches sky and earth. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Writing, and Music, Spirit, The Whole Thing | Tagged Adobe, Blossoms, cells, dandelion, dinner, earth, food, healing, Humans, nature, permaculture, Photoshop, Procreate, singing, trust, wholesome | 2 Comments

Dandelion Blossoms

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Francesca De Grandis

So Many Dandelion Blossoms, So I Can Fill with Sun April, 2012 I know why, early spring, dandelions proliferate in wild crazy abundance. The flowers are full of sunshine to restore my depleted body and spirit, replace the enormous amount … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Writing, and Music, Spirit, The Whole Thing | Tagged abundance, Blossoms, bodies, body, cabin fever, card, cat, cat’s, cells, chaos, circus, crazy, dandelion, dandelions, De Grandis, dinner, earth, eating, elderly, eye, eyeball, eyes, farmer, flowers, food, Francesca, grandma, grandmothers, greens, healing, healthier, healthy, Humans, mom, nature, nature's, permaculture, singing, sky, solar, spirit, spirits, Spring, study, sun, sunshine, Susun Weed, syrup, tarot, tea, wholesome, wild, winter, witches | 4 Comments

Be a Leaf

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Francesca De Grandis

This is an early draft, only wrote it yesterday Be a Leaf Among All the Leaves that Have Ever Fallen from Trees April, 2012 My Gods, help us all shine—continue to shine, start to shine, know we shine, shine ever … Continue reading →

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A Yule Gift for My Community

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Francesca De Grandis

I was singing to God, and She was singing to me. Goddess of winter beckons us. Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Writing, and Music, Classes, Books, and Other News, Community, Spirit, The Whole Thing | Tagged bake, bard, based, birth of god, born, bread, carols, celebrate, Christian, Christianity, Christmas, Come All Ye Faithful, community, connect, connection, connectivity, Cosmos, dark, darkness, Deity, depression, didactic, domestic, earth, earth-centered, ecstatic, expectations, Francesca De Grandis, frenzy, gender, gift, gifts, god, goddess, hearth, hidden, holiday, home, interfaith, joy, kitchen, lore, lyrics, male aspect, meditation, melody, Mysteries, mysticism, myth, nature, pagan, paganism, passionate, peace, religion, rest, revisions, rewrite, rituals, season, sing, Solstice, son of God, son of the Goddess, Song, songs, spirit, spirituality, sun god, tree of life, Unitarian, wicca, wiccan, wild, winter, womb, yule | 18 Comments

Mysticism and Writing as Tools to Change Self and Society

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Francesca De Grandis

Mysticism and Writing as Tools to Change Self and Society: A
weeklong virtual interfaith panel and community discussion Continue reading →

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Recent Dye Art Projects; Also Free-form Three-Dimensional Beadweaving

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Francesca De Grandis

Vintage scraps, bones from an outhouse, and other stuff I use for art. Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Writing, and Music, Classes, Books, and Other News, Community, Spirit, The Whole Thing | Tagged art, beading, bones, creative ideas, dye, Dye art, Dye-na-Flow, dyeing, Francesca De Grandis, God box, hand-painted clothing, humor, Jacquard, Jacquard Products, joke, lace, Lumiere, nature, necklace, painting, Pearl Ex, t-shirt, vintage, weird | 7 Comments

Today’s Walk: The Forest and I are Angry

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Francesca De Grandis

I have a new friend, a wild rabbit… a lesson in stillness… never discount a small mystical event…the Faerie Faith Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Writing, and Music, Community, Spirit, The Whole Thing | Tagged blog, connectivity, creativity, Faerie Faith, feather, fey, Francesca De Grandis, gods, gratitude, lesson, mystical, nature, peace, prayer, rabbit, secret, shamanic, wild, woman | 4 Comments