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Emma

jackdaw calls are shards of flint in a rook earth, brilliant sparks of light in the wider darkness o

About Me

Love walking the woods listening to the birds and plants and trying to understand them. Love foraging for wild food, breathing deeply and returning. Often don't have much to say but love to be quiet with people, love that trust that we can be silent together. Hate small talk, never any good at it. Sometimes I feel kind of nerdy, have an encyclopeidic memory for factual information, but can never remember people's names! love laughing and wearing my bright green coat. Lost both my parents to cancer, has profoundly affected the way I look at life. I share my life with beautiful Yarrow. Sometimes I'm filled with electricity and make pictures and prints. Mainly looking forward to getting out on the land this year, helping with a friends sheep and spinning their wool into hats."....Did you miss me ? Come and kiss me. Never mind my bruises, Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices Squeezed from goblin fruits for you, Goblin pulp and goblin dew. Eat me, drink me, love me; Laura, make much of me: For your sake I have braved the glen....." Goblin Market Christina Rossetti

My Interests

Walking, growing veg, shamanism, wild craft, foraging, fire making, festivals, being, breathing, saunas, singing, intimacy, spinning, green woodworking, vajrayana, womens land, sweat lodges, drawing, eco renovation, ethnobotany,

I'd like to meet:

anyone who has a wide perspective on life, open doors, women who love women, wild crafters, earth spirits, ravens.

Music:

Bjork, PJ, four tet, nitin sawney, carolyn hillyer, dead can dance, depeche mode, salsa, sigur ros, seize the day, afro celt, incredible string band, nizlopi, bird song especially green woodpeckers, song thrushes, nightjars and robins, rivers and streams, howling wind, harmonics, thunder

Movies:

fire, even cowgirls get the blues, baraca, life of brian, labyrinth, bound, french twist, lost boys, fire walk with me

Television:

no thanks

Books:

ancient futures by helena norberg-hodge, mists of avalon, tolkien, nature field guides, tom brown, the education of little tree by forrest carter, joanna macy, the sorcerers crossing,

Heroes:

frida kahlo, joanna macy, chogyam trungpa, my mum,

My Blog

Offerings

Wild bleak moorI am learning slowly to become your daughterthis tiny grass seed of my heartI offer to youthese bare bones, sunken in the bog and whittled white by wind and ravensI offer to youAnd this...
Posted by Emma on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:30:00 PST

Blue

Blue is a goddessa breezeshe breathes across my facekisses me softlytouches my head in blessingand disappearsinto the wide night sky.I am humbledcrushed to dry dustand scattered to the stars.Leaves co...
Posted by Emma on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:26:00 PST

mmmm

In sacred silence, dear free heart breathe deep and know  we are one breathe deep the scent of  bark and wild garlic my skin is listening...
Posted by Emma on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:42:00 PST

what the Raven taught me to sing

Raven Lord of Stormsmake me new againset me free to touch the wind on your wings.To see the earth and sky with your eyeis such blissand when this night is passedI'll be the sunrise.Wolf will you run w...
Posted by Emma on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:59:00 PST

singing the bees

In this sisterhood of blissyou are I are one tasteyou and I and only thisour deep embraceIn this sisterhood of lovethis waxy nest we liewarm body close to minelet's go and flyIn this sisterhood o...
Posted by Emma on Mon, 28 May 2007 10:09:00 PST

Grazing on Healing Herbs

Healing HerbsRecently i've had toothache which has really responded well to chewing a mixture of yarrow leaves, plantian, grass & meadow sweet! Yarrow was held in high regard in the past as a wound he...
Posted by Emma on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:55:00 PST

Seasonal Wild food notes & recipes- Easter ledgers

Dock pudding or Easter ledgersGot really into this when i lived in Mytholmroyd, yorkshire, the undisputed centre of the universe when it comes to Dock pudding - honestly, championships held every year...
Posted by Emma on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 01:25:00 PST