This is a project of writer, artist and folklorist Elisabeth Carol Harvey McCumber.

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Anyway, about this website. I started it in 2009 because I was feeling disconnected from my faith and I wanted to begin again, using study as a form of prayer. Over the years, the essays have morphed into five main topics: mythology and mysticism; homesteading skills; real food; DIY; and parenting and homeschool. These days I use the blog to process ideas that interest me and try to engage in conversation around them, while continuing to build the skills—the making, homesteading and human skills—that I think we all will need as our society continues to decline and we find ourselves ever more pressed to generate our own abundance and self-sufficiency within our own communities.