There is a profound intelligence at work in the garden during the final, golden hours of summer. As the wheel turns toward autumn, we are often conditioned to look only at what is blooming, clinging t...Read More
August Wisdom in Words and Images from the archives of 2012. The mixed bag feels like a lifetime ago but as timely as ever. The photos are old and newish but all mine. Posted by Layla Morgan Wilde at ...Read More
Salad Days, Then and Now. All the photos were taken by me and many of the salads were my concoctions but some of the fancier ones are from restaurants or cruise ships from my travels. ...Read More
We are sitting right at the apex of the building Lions gate energy and a powerful solar alignment. If you’ve felt a heavy, building pressure lately or felt your sleep disrupted by intense dreams an...Read More
The Day Summer Ends: Lughnasadh, Lammas, and the Nordic Thread I Didn’t Know I Was Following. ( all photos by Layla Morgan Wilde) I have always known it as August 1st. Not the paga...Read More
A selection of wisdom from the archives and new additions. 7/23/2009 Helping Hands I’d made this collage a while back and thought it appropos today. Last night I watching some dreck on Holl...Read More
The Boomer Muse launched in 2008 and quickly grew 1 million visitors a year. All that changed when I migrated to WordPress and lost six years of content. I was able to retrieve some of it from the Int...Read More
Everything is Coming Up Roses. June belongs to the roses. Full stop. Punctuated by original photo quotes. I wish we had smell-o-vision. Not just because they’re spilling over every fence righ...Read More
The sacred pause at Midsummer… Twice each year, the Sun appears to pause. At the Solstice, whether in the longest light of summer or the longest night of winter, we find ourselves at the threshold o...Read More
A meditation on nature’s spring trees. Since I wrote about the cherry blossoms a few weeks ago, they’ve faded, but all is not lost. It feels like yesterday, wandering through my garden ...Read More