I just found your website and was reading some of your information. I am inspired by your passion for living where we are and getting what we need from the things around us. I have been interested in herbal healing for awhile, I have not really gotten deep into it until a year or so ago. But the endless options of herbs that you can get from all over is overwhelming to me. As I look for answers and let time take its course in my journey, I have found you and many others who are staying right close to home and doing wonderful things with what is around them. So thank you for your very informative and inspirational website. I look forward to reading and learning more.

Sarah

Thank you so much for your blog – it inspires me tremendously. Like others, I am one of those ‘homeless’ ones (as opposed to houseless), with my compass always pointed toward finding my home even though my life seems to always circle way outside of home’s reach.

Now, I’m living overseas, in heavy urban places, which I only manage because it is temporary (hopefully, with fingers crossed that DH finds a job back in the US). At least there are plant folks online even if I can’t find them (or the plants) in real life

One of the difficulties I have is that though I can take on book learning, in regards to herbs, I’d rather lean heavily on the experiential – but without a place to practice, without knowing if I’m going to return to the place where I feel native and the plants I’m familiar with, that’s hard to accomplish.

Can I chime in late here in hopes of reading Wolf’s book? Maybe it will help me sort out my own thoughts on this…

Thanks for all your loving work.

Wendy

part of the land covenants here at the sanctuary are that we keep no domesticated animals whatsoever, in order to keep the land as wild as possible. local dairy is hard to get too, because of the shortage of grass for grazing animals and how much damage they do to the land.

animal fat is easier to come by and is so healing when it comes from wild animals like bear or beaver.

thanks for reading!
Kiva

I’ve been following your blog a bit, since stumbling upon it either through the susun weed forum, or through the pages of Darcey Blue (I forget which!). I have much appreciated this post on Home, and I would love to read Wolf’s book. Please let me know how I may arrange that.

Thanks so much for sharing bits of your life in your magical Home,

-A desert dryad

I do think that for many people finding home certainly does require focus, it definitely did for me. I didn’t get here by simply wandering into it, but was actively seeking my place. The process is often different for each of us, but focus is an important part of life, love and engagement with our selves and the our places. To listen intently for the land that calls us as our deepest love, as the part of ourselves we have been looking for our whole lives usually requires focus, determination and a fierce commitment to not only finding but being there in the way that fulfills us. We are, after all, co-creators of our lives, and are responsible for some some of that creative pro-action.

Blessings,
Kiva

If anyone else is interested in reading Wolf’s amazing and lyrical book about the process of coming home to self and place, please let me know.

all living things have a vibration rate so when you live in an area you don’t feel home, it is because you have another vibration rate.
You don’t have to “search” for your home because you will find it anyway on a trip, holiday, on the internet or somewhere else and do you know why? It is pulling you and when you ‘don’t fight’ where you are right now and ‘don’t focus’ on searching you will get this special hint… some how… because we all have our place on this beautiful planet… even when this can change from time to time, depending on your own purpose.
Try to not focus and trust your own guide to this special place which is meant for you.
Love Brigitte

Dear Kiva

I love the magic of your home and always looking forward to read your posts! This is such an incredible land and I am fascinated from the many for me “exotic” plants

Love Brigitte

Thank you for your inspiring words~
and the little props link at the end
~Shawna

Ananda, you’re right, many aren’t at home where they are….. If that’s the case, you need to find home and go there, making it a big priority in your life. Finding home is an essential part of personal wholeness, so it’s important in the same sense as breathing good air, eating whole food and being able to be outdoors. It’s a part of who you are. Wolf wrote a whole book on this called Home, if you want to read it I’ll send you an electronic copy

Until you find it, you connect as deeply as you can where you are (like you’re already doing) and work towards finding that special place.

Just have to ask. So many people do not feel at home, and so cannot get to that depth of experience.

love
ananda