The Thirteenth Moon Even if you have lost heart She puts a tide in you Even if you have lost heart You will be moved You will be all lined up The soil has tides Bedrock has tides The horizon heaves She will drag even you “That turns out to be a place where it’s …
Author Archives: kaat
Solar Hot Water: Going Ahead!
After too many estimates but wonderful and very instructive conversations with installers, we have committed to going solar for our hot water. We got our shade report that tells us that our solar effect of 95.35% qualifies us for the State rebate (minimum requirement is 75%). Our solar fraction is 73.1% which means that solar will provide that …
Evolving Upheaval Poem
This poem is evolving as I try to explain my growing insight into what hope is and what my role is in this world. I started it here. Do you dare to test the endurance of your hope To take it to that far place where still it refuses to leave or maybe not. Where, …
Clarity, in Pieces (i)
I feel like I’ve gained some clarity in the last few months, but it has been hard to write about it. Every time I sit down to start, the task seems impossible. So let me break it down into pieces – events, insights, decisions, changes in plans. The first evening when all of my thinking …
Amie’s Self-Portrait
Back in the day when this was a Mama blog, I used to report so often on Amie’s art and drawing. There is a whole series about her early drawings on  here, somewhere  (enter “drawing” in the search engine). It caught the attention of Brent and Marjory Wilson, who wrote about Amie in the new …
Today 12/14/2012
Today I had to go into therapy with my chickens. I sat in the sun watching  them and calmed down. They look at you without filters, without pity or fear. Their question is always: Who do you think you are?
Upheaval Poems
There has been a major change in my thinking/feeling about our culture, our future, and my role. An upheaval big enough for me to burn some bridges (to set fire to them, at least), to shed some tears. Well. Good things are happening too as a result of it, I hasten to add. Clarity is …
Composting with Birds
This huge brussels sprout was pulled from one of the school gardens and on its way to the compost. I had ideas for a different kind of composting.
Going for Solar Hot Water
We are very close to choosing our solar hot water system and installer. It is something we were thinking about even before we went for the solar PV, and when the latter system was designed, we made sure there would be plenty of room for thermal collectors. Now that we have whittled down our oil consumption, …
Root Cellar Roots
Time to check on the stored roots. I didn’t grow any these – as usual I lost control over the garden mid-Summer and have yet to grow a successful Fall crop. These came in my CSA farm share from Siena Farm. As you can see I had a hard time keeping up with the parsnips! …