Wild Moon Cottage is a small working homestead in the pristine Ozark Mountains. We have dairy goats, poultry, organic herb and vegetable gardens, a start of a tiny fruit orchard, several black walnut trees, wild berries and fields of wildcrafting goodness. We raise our own milk, our own eggs, much of our own medicine and food. I do laundry by hand, make my own vinegar, candles, soap, bread, cheese ........ For a living I am an artist and herbalist. My goal for myself and our homestead is to be as self sufficient and self sustaining as possible.

Saturday, August 23, 2008

8.23.08

Yesterday and all this morning I worked on our new cat adoption blog http://TheKarmicCat.blogspot.com/ We spent some time wrangling cats for pictures :)

This morning I also finished "The Mourners". A few years ago I saw a picture in a magazine, National Geo I believe, of mourners mourning their dead because of war. It's one of those things that stays with you.

I think my beloved Luna is getting ready to cross over. She's over 20 human years old. I will miss her so much but her life has been a grand adventure and she has been greatly loved. I think the Mourners are for her, not to mourn for her spirit but to mourn for us she'll leave behind.


Last night I had a strange and slightly terrible dream. I dreamt that I woke in a big bed with 2 other women and there was blood on the sheet. I got up and looked at the women and the one in the middle was awake and said "it must be hers" pointing to the third. I looked and she had blood on her but I couldn't tell if she was asleep or awake. I walked into the next room and there was a lot of blood on the couch, I knew whoever had left it was a bad person and had harmed someone. I walked down a hall and saw a guy wet from a shower with only a towel around his waist and I knew he was the one. I woke scared. That very rarely happens and when I dream blood it means literal blood and death means literal death. But murder doesn't mean literal murder.

1 comment:

oldcrow61 said...

Had a look at the "Cat house blog". What beautiful cats. It tears at my heart when I think of all the cats that have been abandoned and are homeless. We have six. I would take that little Casper in a heart beat. So sweet.

I found your painting of "The Mourners" rather comforting. May sound crazy, I know. It's lovely.