A Glimpse of the Life & Art of Madison Woods
@WildOzark
Where I write about my art, and share bits of our life out here in the wild Ozarks near Kingston, Arkansas.
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Read more: A Poem by Joanna MacyThis is an untitled (newly titled!) poem by Joanna Macy, a deep ecologist. I found this poem many years ago on a website long lost…
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Read more: The Sound of WinterSome sounds are distinctly “winter”. Sometimes the sound of winter is marked by the absence of sound. Maybe it’s more correctly described as the “silence…
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Read more: Meet our new team mates – Bat Cave BotanicalsWild Ozark is pleased to announce that we’ll be working with Bat Cave Botanicals to bring wild Appalachian ginseng roots and leaf products to our…
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Read more: On the horizon-Just filling inI’m swamped with my project list and missed my scheduled day to post here yesterday. So I’m just making a quick post to let you…
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Read more: Warm Egg on a Cold DayThere is something quite satisfying about finding a warm egg in the henhouse on a blustery 15*F morning. I tried something new to help me…
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Read more: DeparturesNot all of my art reflects the Ozarks. Some of it is purely from the imagination, and some are images of things nowhere nearby. When…
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Read more: What is Humanity’s Role in Nature?Humanity’s Role in Nature Have you ever thought about humanity’s role in nature? Our various mythologies and religious origin stories offer some ideas that are…
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Read more: Snow is Beautiful but Hoar Frost is MagicalThe sight of hoar frost makes me smile because it brings a memory to mind, one with imagery that could have been ripped from the…
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Read more: Exercising Outside on a Crispy Ozark MorningA crispy cold morning, great for exercising outside I did my exercising outside this morning, jog/walked to the mailbox in under 20 minutes – a milestone…
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Read more: Yellow dock (Rumex crispus), one of the useful “weeds” to knowI saw a young Yellow dock (Rumex crispus) the other day when I walked down the driveway. Usually, unless I’m specifically looking for younger plants,…
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Read more: Wild Ozark Musings – December NewsletterBelow you’ll find the December issue of Wild Ozark Musings, a newsletter about nature, ginseng, and our wild Ozark life. Ordinarily I send this out as…
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Read more: Exercising in Nature – or – Why it takes me an hour to walk to the mailbox and backExercising in nature is as easy as taking a walk to check the mail. It helps if you have a long driveway. One of my…
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Read more: Did you know Osage Oranges evolved with wooly mammoths?Osage Maclura pomifera, also known as Osage Orange, Bois d’Arc, Hedge-apple, or Horse-apple, the osage tree is native to our area. Even so, there aren’t…
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Read more: With a departing roarWith a departing roar the storm rolled off to the east. Clear skies between broken clouds filled the southwestern wake. Nature is my muse. I’ve…
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Read more: Winter Solstice 2015 – A Widdershin sort of TimeWinter Solstice 2015 occurs tonight at 10:03 p.m. CST It’s a widdershin sort of time, an unwinding, a releasing. A loosening of the grip on…
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Read more: Finding Lost FungiI brought the camera today to get some photos of fungi I’d spotted a few days ago. When I rode out with Rob the other day I…
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Read more: Looking forward to solsticePulled this one from the archives. It’s from when I worked in Bentonville, leaving before dawn and getting home after dusk. I hated that and…
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Read more: Killing Pretty RoostersFirst I tried selling pretty roosters. Then I tried gifting pretty roosters. Yesterday we killed pretty roosters. It was my chore to pick which ones.…
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Read more: Inspired by NatureNature has inspired some pretty cool inventions. And lots of art. My guess is that Mother Nature is the muse to a lot of artists…
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Read more: Today’s post is fictionAnd it’s at my fiction website. It’s a tiny story of 100 words, and not very “nature” based, so I didn’t post it here. But…
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Read more: One Photo. One Thought – The path of our choice.One Photo. One Thought. I chose to walk the one that beckoned my heart.…
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Read more: Two weeks to Relax, Have a Fun Spree, RegroupFor the next two weeks I’ll be on internet vacation trying to relax and have some fun. I’ll be trying to relax. I know I’ll…
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Read more: Funny DreamThis is an old post I’m recycling from 2009 about a funny dream. I’m going through my old blog posts and will reuse the ones…
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Read more: Looking back on 10 years of roughing it in the Ozarks – Happy Thanksgiving 2015Many would consider us still roughing it. Life is a lot more comfortable here now, but we learned a lot about survival since we moved…
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Read more: Nature Workshop with Madison WoodsWhat happens at a nature workshop? My nature workshop is designed to help you reconnect to nature and express your experience through art, writing, and…
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