Lucid Dreams and Everything Keeps Coming Back to New Mexico

I have been experimenting with sleeping with Mugwort close to my head. I have sewn up little dream pillows with Mugwort and other herb blends, to put under your sleeping head and entertain you with more vivid and lucid dreams. I have been sleeping with these herbs near my head every night and the results have really been remarkable, i need to start writing them down.

last night i had the first dream where i had a dream in my dream. In my dream i really thought i was awake and was placing together evens of my day and realized they didnt make sense, and i had this overwhelming feeling that i had blacked out for part of it. Cause in the waking world Dana and I went to Joanna and Ike's for wine and board games and i came home and went to bed a little drunk. In my dream i thought i was awake and recounting the events and terrified about how i could not remember what i  did when i got home. Then in the dreamworld i realized i was still dreaming and that was why i was having the  chunk of time i couldn't remember feeling. So then I woke up from that dream but was still sleeping.
When i moved onto the next dream i was in a really large grocery store getting ready to go on a road trip to Montana with Ryan Howe and Ryan Naideau and Howe somehow scammed buying potatoes for less then they were marked by weighing them as something else on the 'weigh your own produce scale'. I thought about how i had 60.00$ left on my food stamp card (which i do in real life ) and that i could contribute it towards the road trip. I thought for a long time about shoplifting something like an avocado and decided at the end not to.
When i woke up it was 9:00am.

Dream Pillows i make, the herb blend is in the shell, I've been keeping that shell on my headboard at night. If you want a dream pillow you can buy one on my Etsy or contact me !

And New Mexico! all the signs keep pointing me to New Mexico. If my life was a movie you would all be laughing at me right now for not seeing my own foreshadowing. In August i found a pile of blank New Mexico postcards in a free bin in Bellingham, Wa. I took them all and came up with (in my head) " The New Mexico Project" where i would send them to friends i havent talked to in a while enjoying the irony that I wasn't in NM and wasn't really heading there. I'll mail one to you if you want!
So NM coming up:
1.I am interested in natural building and find the Earthship Biotecture in New Mexico, and my friend Jess works there and she's offered for me to visit her out there whenever

2. I am in NY and want to go back west soon and i dont want to fly. Dana comes home and says her friend Emma is driving to NM at the end of february.

3. I am trying to figure out what i am doing this year, pursuing all my common interests and i am always on allofcraigs.com (you might get addicted) and search "permaculture internship" and
this is the first thing i see ! if you dont want to click the link, i will just tell you it is what looks like a really badass permaculture interny in NEW MEXICO.

4. also, my car is in Colorado. Emily invited to Moab, Utah, short or long term. both really close to NM. So that whole region is really just aligning for me right now, and even though its not necessarily where i thought i was heading it seems like it might be where i need to go.

I could write another billion things about all the synchronicity and weird little fate-ful that happens to me.
So i don't know, maybe that is where i will find myself.

here are some pictures:

High Falls, NY

Foraged last year in California. Black Trumpets and Chantrelles

Turkey Tails, also last year California. 

homes and homelessness

a small excerpt of the many places i have called home.

Bubble Pie Honey Wagon at Crater Lake at sunset. This baby was my best friend.  August 2011, Oregon.

I live in this trailer for part of last February 2011. Three Springs, North Fork, CA. I moved out when a better trailer (read: with electricity) became available. This beautiful message was already there when i moved in. From that Jason Anderson song, right?

View from the front porch of the Herb Pharm Intern house. Slow onset of warm weather and no shyness of precipitation. April 2011,  Williams, OR

This was my first home in California. The Monkey Cabin, at Three Springs. Monkey is asleep on my bed. The first cat i ever really loved, she died this past April at almost 20 years old, she was as wild as they come.  North Fork, CA August 2010.


Trying to remember to let everything fall into place, while simultaneously looking for a feeling that used to exist where i am now but currently doesn't. 

The Owls Say

I've been meaning to set up an Etsy account for over a year now, and now that i finally have i am realizing how much work it really is. So, it's coming together slowly and i am working on every day. Starting this has been encouraging me to make more, do more, and spend most of my days creating and brainstorming.
I'm a long term subscriber to D.I.Y (do-it yourself) ethics, and while my relationship to the community that   first introduced these ideals to me has changed, my lifestyles have continued to be influenced by these principles.
At this point, i can't really envision myself living the typical working life where i am defined by whatever job i wind up working, or working just to make enough to live somewhere and work. There is so much i want to do and see and explore that i wonder if it can all be done in one lifetime.
So i started this Etsy to hopefully make some money making the crafts i make with the skills i've learned and help support myself and my travels!
So please check it out and support when you can and tell other people about it, i will keep putting more stuff up, and if not from me, check out the many amazing artists also vending through Etsy!

thank you!

and here's a little treat :

 $4.00 at Twice Blessed Thrift Store








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