Bless you, and bless you, and bless you.
This month, we investigate the Veil that separates humans from gods and life from death. You’ll learn about the ancestry of the Veil (including its relationship to the Peek-a-boo Mist that invented laughter), the miracle of the first Wiggle, the Beings trapped inside the Veil, how Transmissions can be sent across it (through offerings, prayers, and weather phenomena), and about that one time when a child from your world got sucked into a Pool Drain and passed through the Veil into the Ancient Forest where gods live. This book also includes a rare transcription of a conversation between gods and Fireflies.
You’ll receive two pdf files: one formatted for screen reading (labeled “SCREEN”), and another formatted for double-sided printing (labeled “PRINTABLE BOOKLET”). Please don’t distribute this top-secret content!
This month, the gods do their best to understand time. In this book, you’ll glimpse the forestly theory that each life-time is best understood as a petal, not a line — connected at the sharp point of birth and death to a family of other lives.
Some petals are larger than others, just as some lives are longer than others. But within each life, time expands and contracts to complete the loop, creating a life of wholeness.
The back of the book features the gods’ map of time, notated in their famously Illegible Handwriting.
You’ll receive two pdf files: one formatted for screen reading (labeled “SCREEN”), and another formatted for double-sided printing (labeled “PRINTABLE BOOKLET”). Please don’t distribute this top-secret content!
So often in our lives, the world says no, no, no. Don’t touch that. Don’t feel that way. Don’t want too much. Don’t do that thing with your face. Don’t rest. Don’t eat. And whatever you do, don’t put that toad in your pocket.
This month, the gods give you permission, no matter what kind of creature you are. (As we know, most living beings are afraid to take up the fullness of their wingspan, to use more than they have, or even to be caught resting.)
In this season of May, you may touch that. You may feel that way. Want what you want. Do that thing with your face! Rest. Eat. And please: put that toad in your shirt pocket, with its little triangle face peeking out. Whisper into its ear-holes, in the ancientmost language you know: Lead the way, sticky old pal. Align your nose-holes with its nose-holes. Go where the nose-holes point.
Be free, be moss-green, be moisturized. Jump. Dip your toes into the bog where the hot dogs grow and the mud devours. Become amphibian. Become mind of action, mind that goes boing. Become body that leaps into land, water, sky. Body of leapingness everywhere. The gods give you permission:
You may.
You may.
You may.
You’ll receive two pdf files: one formatted for screen reading (labeled “SCREEN”), and another formatted for double-sided printing (labeled “PRINTABLE BOOKLET”). Please don’t distribute this top-secret content!
Did you know that the most important ingredients in the production of rainclouds are feet, debris, sky-high ladders, prayers, pickle spears, pie, and lingonberry jerky? This month, we share how we gods make rain and stomp our blessings into the clouds.
A small warning: you may feel like you need a raincoat to make it through the 5 pages of rainstorms in this book! It rains very very hard! And there isn’t a SINGLE roof or tree or umbrella’d stranger to hide under. However, our hope is that the rain inside these pages reaches you — through your skin, eyeballs, ears, mind, fingertips.
If you’re having a particularly difficult season, please open your book to a cloud with a needed blessing and rest your little face on it. Take in every drop of rain you can.
You’ll receive two pdf files: one formatted for screen reading (labeled “SCREEN”), and another formatted for double-sided printing (labeled “PRINTABLE BOOKLET”). Please don’t distribute this top-secret content!
This month, we investigate the Veil that separates humans from gods and life from death. You’ll learn about the ancestry of the Veil (including its relationship to the Peek-a-boo Mist that invented laughter), the miracle of the first Wiggle, the Beings trapped inside the Veil, how Transmissions can be sent across it (through offerings, prayers, and weather phenomena), and about that one time when a child from your world got sucked into a Pool Drain and passed through the Veil into the Ancient Forest where gods live. This book also includes a rare transcription of a conversation between gods and Fireflies.
This month, the gods do their best to understand time. In this book, you’ll glimpse the forestly theory that each life-time is best understood as a petal, not a line — connected at the sharp point of birth and death to a family of other lives.
Some petals are larger than others, just as some lives are longer than others. But within each life, time expands and contracts to complete the loop, creating a life of wholeness.
The back of the book features the gods’ map of time, notated in their famously Illegible Handwriting.
So often in our lives, the world says no, no, no. Don’t touch that. Don’t feel that way. Don’t want too much. Don’t do that thing with your face. Don’t rest. Don’t eat. And whatever you do, don’t put that toad in your pocket.
This month, the gods give you permission, no matter what kind of creature you are. (As we know, most living beings are afraid to take up the fullness of their wingspan, to use more than they have, or even to be caught resting.)
In this season of May, you may touch that. You may feel that way. Want what you want. Do that thing with your face! Rest. Eat. And please: put that toad in your shirt pocket, with its little triangle face peeking out. Whisper into its ear-holes, in the ancientmost language you know: Lead the way, sticky old pal. Align your nose-holes with its nose-holes. Go where the nose-holes point.
Be free, be moss-green, be moisturized. Jump. Dip your toes into the bog where the hot dogs grow and the mud devours. Become amphibian. Become mind of action, mind that goes boing. Become body that leaps into land, water, sky. Body of leapingness everywhere. The gods give you permission:
You may.
You may.
You may.
Did you know that the most important ingredients in the production of rainclouds are feet, debris, sky-high ladders, prayers, pickle spears, pie, and lingonberry jerky? This month, we share how we gods make rain and stomp our blessings into the clouds.
A small warning: you may feel like you need a raincoat to make it through the 5 pages of rainstorms in this book! It rains very very hard! And there isn’t a SINGLE roof or tree or umbrella’d stranger to hide under. However, our hope is that the rain inside these pages reaches you — through your skin, eyeballs, ears, mind, fingertips.
If you’re having a particularly difficult season, please open your book to a cloud with a needed blessing and rest your little face on it. Take in every drop of rain you can.
This month, we bring you a 24-page illustrated Encyclopedia of the Ancient Forest, where we address any Confusion, Questions, and Doubts you may have about life in our world and yours. We are excited to compile this information for you, as we believe all beings deserve to be guided both gently and colorfully through the Mysteries of existence.
As you'll see, we have housed our Encyclopedia in pages of pink, blue, gray, yellow, green, and red, corresponding to its chapters on Bewilderments, Nostalgias, Griefs, Doings, Hungers, and Entanglements. Those who are unable to take in the questions and answers (for example, babies) can simply Bask in the emotional valence of these colors, and, in doing so, develop a deep and sacred knowing that transcends the boundaries of Literacy.
You’ll receive two pdf files: one formatted for screen reading (labeled “SCREEN”), and another formatted for double-sided printing (labeled “PRINTABLE BOOKLET”). Please don’t distribute this top-secret content!
In our Blessings for February, we are delighted to share the Secret Means by which we communicate with Probability and other Forces in the universe. If you follow the Toadly Instructions in this book, you'll receive a Proclamation from Probability itself, and perhaps some relief from a Question that has weighed on your heart.
To communicate with Probability, you’ll need a pair of scissors (or claws) and a few dabs of your favorite Goo.
This book includes 24 illustrated pages of poems, toads, botanicals, flies, essays, fields of earthly and celestial color, bear symbols, and your own cut-out dice.
You’ll receive two pdf files: one formatted for screen reading (labeled “SCREEN”), and another formatted for double-sided printing (labeled “PRINTABLE BOOKLET”). Please don’t distribute this top-secret content!
In this book, we visit some of the Forest’s historical texts, and offer the rituals, practices, and noticings that welcome these Sacred Memories into our daily lives. If you’ve been feeling nostalgic for simpler times (such as just before the Big Kaboom), this one’s for you.
This book includes 24 illustrated pages of poems, botanicals, longings, alligators, and more.
You’ll receive two pdf files: one formatted for screen reading (labeled “SCREEN”), and another formatted for double-sided printing (labeled “PRINTABLE BOOKLET”). Please don’t distribute this top-secret content!
In this book, we share our rituals in preparation for the Longest Night: a time to reflect on the presence of Darkness, the taste of Pies and Pancakes, and the perils of Divine ice skating.
This book includes 24 pages of illustrations, maps, cups of Wassail, Rabbits, Toads, recipes, cups of Darkness, and so much more.
You’ll receive two pdf files: one formatted for screen reading (labeled “SCREEN”), and another formatted for double-sided printing (labeled “PRINTABLE BOOKLET”). Please don’t distribute this top-secret content!
Following Grandbear’s famous Treetise, she embarked on the most important work of her life, as a Coziness Consultant for dens, nests, burrows, tree-holes, and even pond bottoms. Every fall, she traveled the Ancient Forest from home to home, sticking her nose in rabbit warrens and climbing trees to reach the highest nests, bringing her Cozy Sensibility to every creature in the forest.
Her work includes innovations in nest-weaving (based on her mother's lessons in macrame), a celebration of the (then-controversial) use of candlelight in underground spaces, an observation on ponds as both interior and exterior design, an illustrated essay on the decorative possibilities of forest berries, a theory on the geometry of beehives, an ode to the wondrous architecture of anthills, and so much more.
At the time of her death, she was working on A Study in Cozy, compiling her sacred knowledge on this subject.
This book includes 24 pages of illustrations, maps, real bear hair stitches, cups of tea, forest berries, quilts, and poems! so many poems! to welcome in the winter months.
You’ll receive two pdf files: one formatted for screen reading (labeled “SCREEN”), and another formatted for double-sided printing (labeled “PRINTABLE BOOKLET”). Please don’t distribute this top-secret content!
Set in the ancestral home of Bear-kind, deep in the Grove of Shadows, “Blessings for October” is a fully-illustrated, hand-bound book with 24 pages of words and images. It features a mysterious map of the Ancient Forest (drawn by Primordial Bears), paper harvested by moonlight from the Ocean of Grief, 16 of Grandbear’s never-before-seen translations, A History of Quilting, and stitching in real hair plucked from Bear armpits.
You’ll receive two pdf files: one formatted for screen reading (labeled “SCREEN”), and another formatted for double-sided printing (labeled “PRINTABLE BOOKLET”). Please don’t distribute this top-secret content!
Set in the Outer Burrows of the Ancient Forest, “Blessings for September” is a fully-illustrated 24-page book, written in the Proprietary Grass Ink of Rabbit-kind. It features a library pocket, a page of Grass Ink samples, and lots of rabbits, gemstones, trilobites, snails, and other Beings hidden throughout. It’s packed with Toadish wisdom on getting lost and (hopefully) found again.
You’ll receive two pdf files: one formatted for screen reading (labeled “SCREEN”), and another formatted for double-sided printing (labeled “PRINTABLE BOOKLET”). Please don’t distribute this top-secret content!
This month, we bring you a 24-page illustrated Encyclopedia of the Ancient Forest, where we address any Confusion, Questions, and Doubts you may have about life in our world and yours. We are excited to compile this information for you, as we believe all beings deserve to be guided both gently and colorfully through the Mysteries of existence.
As you'll see, we have housed our Encyclopedia in pages of pink, blue, gray, yellow, green, and red, corresponding to its chapters on Bewilderments, Nostalgias, Griefs, Doings, Hungers, and Entanglements. Those who are unable to take in the questions and answers (for example, babies) can simply Bask in the emotional valence of these colors, and, in doing so, develop a deep and sacred knowing that transcends the boundaries of Literacy.
In our Blessings for February, we are delighted to share the Secret Means by which we communicate with Probability and other Forces in the universe. If you follow the Toadly Instructions in this book, you'll receive a Proclamation from Probability itself, and perhaps some relief from a Question that has weighed on your heart.
To communicate with Probability, you’ll need a pair of scissors (or claws) and a few dabs of your favorite Goo.
This book includes 24 illustrated pages of poems, toads, botanicals, flies, essays, fields of earthly and celestial color, bear symbols, and your own cut-out dice.
In this book, we visit some of the Forest’s historical texts, and offer the rituals, practices, and noticings that welcome these Sacred Memories into our daily lives. If you’ve been feeling nostalgic for simpler times (such as just before the Big Kaboom), this one’s for you.
This book includes 24 illustrated pages of poems, botanicals, longings, alligators, and more.
In this book, we share our rituals in preparation for the Longest Night: a time to reflect on the presence of Darkness, the taste of Pies and Pancakes, and the perils of Divine ice skating.
This book includes 24 pages of illustrations, maps, cups of Wassail, Rabbits, Toads, recipes, cups of Darkness, and so much more.
Following Grandbear’s famous Treetise, she embarked on the most important work of her life, as a Coziness Consultant for dens, nests, burrows, tree-holes, and even pond bottoms. Every fall, she traveled the Ancient Forest from home to home, sticking her nose in rabbit warrens and climbing trees to reach the highest nests, bringing her Cozy Sensibility to every creature in the forest.
Her work includes innovations in nest-weaving (based on her mother's lessons in macrame), a celebration of the (then-controversial) use of candlelight in underground spaces, an observation on ponds as both interior and exterior design, an illustrated essay on the decorative possibilities of forest berries, a theory on the geometry of beehives, an ode to the wondrous architecture of anthills, and so much more.
At the time of her death, she was working on A Study in Cozy, compiling her sacred knowledge on this subject.
This book includes 24 pages of illustrations, maps, real bear hair stitches, cups of tea, forest berries, quilts, and poems! so many poems! to welcome in the winter months.
Set in the ancestral home of Bear-kind, deep in the Grove of Shadows, “Blessings for October” is a fully-illustrated, hand-bound book with 24 pages of words and images. It features a mysterious map of the Ancient Forest (drawn by Primordial Bears), paper harvested by moonlight from the Ocean of Grief, 16 of Grandbear’s never-before-seen translations, A History of Quilting, and stitching in real hair plucked from Bear armpits.
Set in the Outer Burrows of the Ancient Forest, “Blessings for September” is a fully-illustrated, hand-bound 24-page book, printed on premium matte paper with a glossy cover, in the Proprietary Grass Ink of Rabbit-kind. It features a personalized library pocket with a glow-in-the-dark firefly, an Outer Burrows Library sticker, and lots of rabbits, gemstones, trilobites, snails, and other Beings hidden throughout. It’s packed with Toadish wisdom on getting lost and (hopefully) found again.
A digital copy of Blessings for August, featuring 24 pages of color illustrations, stories, poems, and — of course — blessings for a summer month. It also includes a full-page map, Ants, and lots of secret frogs and snails.
You’ll receive two pdf files: one formatted for screen reading (labeled “SCREEN”), and another formatted for double-sided printing (labeled “PRINTABLE BOOKLET”). Please don’t distribute this top-secret content!
24 pages of color illustrations, stories, poems, and — of course — blessings for a summer month. This book is printed on handmade cotton paper and hand-bound (by me!) with waxed red string. It also features a glossy map insert, Ants, and lots of secret frogs and snails.