The Free Radical

“Try to stay in the middle.” I know that voice. It was Richard Sebastian, that Buzzard character from my Muse Trilogy. He’s been keeping a very close eye on me for more than a month already. Sometimes he deliberately casts (…)

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After a restless night, I woke up feeling like a butterfly standing on a thistle blossom… awaiting my Dreaming Double to properly reintegrate. I described my weirdness in a post on my Facebook Author Page. I knew that Nature would (…)

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I had barely stepped out of the truck when I heard “Please leave the heavy philosophy at the truck.” Who said that? It was difficult to identify the voice, though it was strong and clear. I looked around… to no (…)

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Despite his apparent nervousness and ADD, conversations with Squirrel can be surprisingly enlightening… “I’ve been finding dried mushrooms lodged in tree branches,” I began. “You wouldn’t know anything about that, would you?” “Oh, of a certainty! Assuredly, it is I!” (…)

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Grouse has been dancing her energy all over the place! Her specialties are rhythm, timing, and creating the sacred space for new imaginings to become new realities… they just have to be danced into creation. Grouse shows us how. I (…)

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Perhaps I’m beginning to repeat myself already, but perhaps this bears repeating… I am no mere tourist, a vacationer to the forest; I am forest. “Warning!” shouts Ground Squirrel. “What?” comes the reply. “It’s only Niels.” And they continue about (…)

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Foraging is fun… and full of surprises! As I make my way daily through the fields of clover, I occasionally stoop to pick and eat the most luscious of the blossoms I encounter. Early season clover blossoms– before summer’s heat (…)

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Well, it seems that the Invisible Bear is still cleaning up. Black Bear assures me that he really does have a sunny disposition… but he’s currently on a mission. He’s been tasked with unearthing and rooting out the last hidey-holes (…)

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I couldn’t possibly eat– or even gather for later– all of the food currently available on my daily forest walks… for two reasons. First, there is simply way too much out there in terms of gooseberries, raspberries, strawberries, saskatoon berries, (…)

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As the wild onions begin now to go to seed, I feast less upon their flowers and seek suitable alternatives. I’m an addict; already I have a 3-daisy-a-day habit to satisfy. “You are what you eat.” But sometimes it is (…)

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