Tiny Taiga

Grateful To Be Alive
And For You
-BLAKE

Loooooook!!!!
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Here’s the final design for the Tiny Taiga
Rose Oracle Card deck and they’re truly gorgeous
and make my heart explode to see!
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Deciding now on the printer, card stock, etc.
and then we’ll run off a few sample decks
while we design the box and the book!
We're planning to do a self-published run of 100
and then get with a good publisher to go big.
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Aren’t they beautiful?!
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Head Tiny Taiga Heartist
-BLAKE

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I don’t want to look
35 when I’m 45
45 when I’m 55
55 when I’m 65
65 when I’m 75
75 when I’m 105
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I want to look only as
I AM
Healthy, vibrant, inspired, confident and clear
Grounded, well-rounded, loving and loved
Whole, fulfilled, joyful, soulful, evolving and free
And always excited for whatever year/decade/phase
I get to enjoy and experience NEXT
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Attainable goals
Are those measured and met
By nothing but
Your Own Ever Evolving Expansion
And Energetic Expression
Of L O V E
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Happy Monday, Friends
Give it ALL Your Very Best Shot
And YOU will have already WON
-BLAKE

The Whole Truth-Seeker Always
-BLAKE

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My Grandmother was from Naples, Italy,
and to say she was a character would be
a gross understatement.
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She would always have me rub fruit on my face after we ate the bulk of it. Mangos, papayas, peaches. Whatever we were eating. She would have me squeeze citrus peels in my eyes to make them tear up. Food was the answer to whatever was the question. She’d talk to the birds while feeding them every morning. She had me pat my face with my first pee in the morning to clear acne. She had opera, ABBA or Frank Sinatra always playing on the record player and sang about the house as though the world was her stage. We would wander through the backyard looking for fresh apricots or grapes or flowers or whatever was growing and she’d be so excited to find them, taking enormous joy and pride in watering them all by hand, in tight pants, home-dyed and cut orange/pink hair and a cigarette dangling from her lips, of course.
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Old Wives’ Tales, Folk Medicine, Old World Ways,
Try this/eat this/do this/what about this/etc.
Was HOW we figured anything and everything out.
Some of it worked for reasons we only now are starting to understand,
and some didn’t work at all but we weren’t afraid to try it all out for ourselves.
We explored nature and life
and all the ways it affected us, healed us, hurt us.
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We, collectively, lost our Old Ways over time,
the ways that sent us outside
and inside to find our own cures,
to discover new sensations, to see what works,
to explore new formulas, fixes and flops.
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We began to trust institutions and instructions
Over inspirations and intuitions, and it’s left us without
a confident connection to Our Own Ways.
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Don’t be afraid to explore all the tools at your fingertips, rub some papaya or pee on your face, make yourself cry, wander this earth barefoot and blast some Madame Butterfly, My Way or Dancing Queen loud enough to tell your cells
an entirely new story every time you hear it.
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But skip the ciggies.
We now know those were a horrendous idea.
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Old Ways Made aNew
-BLAKE

Effing evolution
-BLAKE

During convos with my sweet brothers about my newest batches of beef jerky (one’s got green chile powder, duh) and that they’ll be getting bags of it soon, they both were excited and had some sort of, “If you’d told me five years ago that you’d be making your own beef jerky, I wouldn’t have believed it!”
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Ha. TRUE.
Because I was a “raw vegan” 17 years ago, and then started eating eggs and fish, eventually poultry on occasion, and then started to dabble in the red meat about 5 years ago, and today I’m excitedly making my own jerky so I can send My Beloved to work with a healthy snack and give my brothers some clean, preservative-free, grass fed nibbles, and to get my hands more involved in the actual processing
of my own lovely evolution.
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My diet, nutrition and holistic health-focused lifestyle has continuously evolved, grown, shifted and expanded as new relevant, viable information
Finds its way to MY orbit, cells and psyche,
and I have NEVER shied away from changing
as I am inspired and called
on the road to The Highest and Best Version of Me,
and have truly felt better every year of my life because of it ALL.
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Don’t be afraid to effing change
Every single effing day
until you find a formula
that feels like home
and then after a cozy spell
when your comfort starts to swell
Effing change it up again.
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There’s so much out there to explore on this grand adventure called L I F E
And if you’re still listening to, watching, reading, talking about, eating, thinking, saying, feeling, believing, etc. the same things as last month/year/decade
You’re undoubtedly missing
All The Rest
Keep learning, trying, changing, evolving, moving, shanking, growing
F O R E V E R
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Healthy Grass-fed Jerky Master
-BLAKE

Once
You truly find/hear/feel/discover/choose
Your Own Unique Voice/Truth/Path
The songs, words, colors, visions, vibrations, Creations, recipes, works, connections and gifts

-The Beauty, Magic and Wonder
Of Uniquely, Perfectly, Authenticity YOU -

Can flow out like breath, art and waves
And only YOU have to be filled and fueled
By them
To have made Your Mark
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But someone else WILL
Most definitely LOVE them/you, too
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I looooove to see my paintings on a wall, living and breathing with the world around them, adding their own 10 cents, twinkle and good juju!
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This is one from my “Portals” series from a couple of years ago in a sweet little casita in Santa Fe
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Go find/hear/feel/discover/choose
Your Own Voice/Truth/Path
And let L O V E breathe
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-BLAKE

You know...
Love, Liberty
and The Pursuit of The Whole Truth
-BLAKE

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Blue Corn Posole bubbling on the stove (soaked overnight, cooked 1.5 hours before herbs, chile and meat, 1.5 hours after herbs and meat)
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New Mexico green chiles from the garden going into the oven to roast (20 to 25 minutes)
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Mixed hot peppers and tomatillos from the garden getting chopped up and going into the jar to ferment for a homemade fermented hot chile sauce (1 - 3 weeks)
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Pinto beans, soaked overnight, going into the Instant Pot next (15-25) minutes
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Almond raspberry thumbprint cookies (w almond flour, almond extract, dates, splash of maple syrup, unsweetened raspberry jam, fresh raspberries) going into the oven for later (?)
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Beef eye of round and flank steaks
Thawing in the fridge for this week’s batch of jerky to dehydrate tomorrow
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Then 30 minute sauna immediately followed by a 5 minute dip in the lake (currently 67 degrees) before dinner
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Sunday from the garden/in the kitchen/on the lake/
at home/for love/with love/My Love
-BLAKE

Sure…
They’re just a growing collection of paintings
of ROSES in bright, vibrant colors
with powdered gemstones mixed in
encoded with/inspired by the highest frequencies
and the widest open heart
and desire to inspire
But GEEBUS, I sure do love them
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Of course, I hope you do, too
But either way, it won’t make me
Love them any less or more
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Getting high on my own supply
-BLAKE

I L I V E
🌹🌲✨❤️
What Do You Do?
-BLAKE

Eventually
If you stay on your own track
Trusting your own intuition
Wisdom, inspiration and heart
It WILL all make sense
Beautiful, vibrant, clear, complete
S E N S E
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Full Sensory Experience ✅
-BLAKE

I’m not out there/here
Because I’m an extrovert
or because I’m provocative
or want to prove points, be right,
Get attention, get famous or get rich
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I’m out there/here because
I B E L I E V E I N
Love
Liberty
Beauty
Nature
And the Pursuit of The Highest, Healthiest,
Happiest, Wholest and Best Version
Of The/My Self
And I feel C A L L E D
To share all that That Means To/For Me
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All I’ve learned, all I know and believe
How that looks, feels, sounds, tastes, smells
How I COME TO
Forever falling deeper and deeper
And flying higher and higher
In/With Love With/In Life
And Being A Divine Living Thing
Being Human
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You don’t know What You Don’t Know
But once You Do
You can’t go back
And more importantly
You would never want to
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A dream is a wish
Your mind makes
Love is how your heart
Finds the best way
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Sharing morsels of T R U E L O V E
Lest you need a lead or two
-BLAKE

First homemade batch of beef jerky
was a huge success!!
Crispy, flavorful but still tastes like meat, earthy, organic, not full of sugar, odd spices, preservatives, things that make your stomach ache, etc.
Just organic, grass-fed beef eye of round from US Wellness Meats with a top secret marinade (organic worcestershire, organic tamari, organic chile pepper date syrup and sea salt)
Marinated for 24 hours, dehydrated for 4 hours.
Next time, a bit more salt, but YAHOO, SUCCESS!
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Got any hot jerky tips/secrets?
Apples, bananas, watermelon, strawberries,
fruit leathers, raw crackers, herbs and flowers on the next-up dehydrator list!
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What are your favorite dehydrated treats to make?
-BLAKE