.sunday explorations.

I explored a new part of Central Washington this weekend. There's something about being totally immersed/absorbed in land so vast that scale and distance is totally distorted and you feel like you've been swallowed by it all. Walking through the vast fields of grass and basalt columns, you can't help but be totally transported into a new reality, for a moment. 

It's so vast and there's so little that I could see or know. It made me think about perspective and our lived experience, how this world is so much bigger - wider- and deeper than I'll ever know. How can I from my tiny corner of experience zoom out to see more - to take more in - to live from a bigger place? It was such a perspective shift and on a beautiful full sun day after such a long dark winter. 

.sage hills.

This bitter cold of New England winter has made me ache for the rolling hills and valley of Central Washington, home. It's strange and beautiful that no matter how many places I visit/discover/experience it's always Central Washington that feels like home. It hasn't always been like that. There was an awareness/connect that settled into me from my time in Malawi, so many things were given to me in Malawi. A time to connect with the place I was living. When I returned to Washington after the land felt different - I felt connected to the hills - I needed to spend time on those hillsides. When I was in El Paso I had the same urge - I would go to mountains whenever I could - getting lost on a trail in the Franklin Mountains which gave me air and space but not the clarity. This year has found me out east in Boston and it fits for now. It is giving me so much in it's own way - giving me a lessons that can only come from a city but this long cold winter (it snowed last night!!)  has made me really miss Washington. 

I am an artist and I process my emotions though creating - leading me to my latest collection of jewels, Sage Hills. Each piece of this collection holds an element of that land and those beloved sage hills.

-----------------

That hot dry sun with a gentle breeze

Looking down on the valley with the river 

flowing through the land

The hollow echoes of open space

With a gentle smell of sage

A stark - simple loneliness

A freedom - no expectations

Open faced and openhearted

Pulsing earth

With stories to be hear

Slow down

Connect

------------------

Be sure to check out the new wares in the aeo etsy shop.

.Wild Sage.

The sun has seemed a little shy here - not wanting to fully commit - coming out now and again but spring is here. I'm spending my days finding a new and old places to explore and everywhere I go there is this familiar, comforting, invigorating scent of wild big sagebrush (I've been mentioning it a lot lately...). It has been so healing and centering during this seasonal and personal transition that I have decided to offer something new in my etsy shop, sage bundles! I'm really excited to share something so special.

You can use the sage bundle fresh, placed in a bathroom to invigorate your shower or bath, placed in a living space to add it's rich earthy smell, or burnt as a smudge to cleanse an area and embrace this new season (transition).

Find the sage bundles here in the etsy shop.

Happy Spring to you and yours.