The Dark Angel[i] Slithering through the leadwort and scurvygrass[ii]; Stumbling on the stubble of a Saturday night binge, she mumbles a curse across the nettles’ needles A cross to cross across the green. She leans against the old stone wall munching on rhubarb from a rusty pail. The promise of a pie floats beyond the hills. The piper’s pipe rests on the edge of the well. A trace of tobacco rides the air. Yaowarat[iii], 2020 (In the Year of …
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“Goldilocks Closet Secrets” * Images + Text * Janina Aza Karpinska
Here are some pages from different editions of Goldilocks from my collection of Goldilocks Files –Treated, or altered pages, in the style of Tom Phillips, which was a technique I chanced upon years ago, and which gave me the words and expression I lacked by any other means. I have chosen those which relate to the senses – taste; scent; pleasure. As a little bit of background on the actual technique: I’m indebted to stumbling across the Tom Phillips technique …
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Alchemy, Aromatherapy, and Distillation: An Interview with Cathy Skipper
Cathy Skipper is English by birth and spent much of her adult life in rural France, where she farmed, trained and worked as a herbalist and aromatherapist, and taught practical herbalism, botany and aromatherapy. Together with her husband Florian Birkmayer, she founded Aromagnosis.com. They live in New Mexico and offer courses live and online centralized around the work of Carl Jung, alchemy, aromatherapy, aromatic molecules and the mind. Her new book The Alchemy of Menopause helps women transform “the time …
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