Nine feet up in the tallgrass, leaves turned north and south to duck the midday sun. That's how it got the name — and how people once took a bearing on open ground with nothing else to sight on.
Silphium laciniatum. Blooming right now through September.
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Face down. Forehead on your stacked hands or a folded towel. Belly on the ground, no pillow under you.
This is not a stretch. Six slow breaths, letting the belly press into the floor on the inhale instead of lifting the chest.
You can't fake a diaphragmatic breath against a hard surface. The position removes the option — the floor gives you resistance you cannot argue with, and after four or five breaths something in the low back lets go that you didn't know was clamped.
What changes first is the jaw. That's strange, and you'll notice it around breath four.
Tha do chorp eòlach air an rathad — your body knows the road.
This isn't relaxation. It's returning your weight to something built to hold it.
Where does the day land in you first — jaw, shoulders, or gut?
Today's issue: thistleandmoss.com/p/rot-at-th…
#SelfCare #Somatics #Breathwork #NervousSystem #Rest #Grounding #MentalHealth #Anxiety #Druid #EarthBased #Folklore #Gàidhlig #Photography
Rot at the Top, Ice at the Bottom: Federal protections for queer foster kids stripped, climate crisis accelerates, and survival tactics for when the world gets loud—what sustains us when systems fail.Wendy Weber (Wendy The Druid)
The cicadas changed their song last night. That high electric whine drops into a long exhale and you feel it in your back teeth before you name it.
Tomatoes cracking their own skins from drinking too fast. First goldenrod up along the ditch line. Three minutes of light gone every day now, and nobody consulted about it.
An talamh fo do chasan — the earth beneath your feet. It hasn't gone anywhere.
What's turned over where you are this week?
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A fearless breakdown of trans violence and police corruption, Trump's leak hunts, Japanese urbanism, wild raisin tea, and the survival tactics that ground us when fury and injustice demand our attention.Wendy Weber (Wendy The Druid)
