Today’s big Saturday Shoutout goes to Spring and to a Cup of Coffee and a Donut!
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Therefore, I have taken the day off. I am gone fishing.
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Maybe a good day to read a BOOK
This tragic poem speaks to devastating cause of ice storms in Michigan. We just got federal money from the last one and here we go again.
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Geo Engineering is real.
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More poetry by Michigan Poet Richard Rensberry.
The Wild Canary Children’s Book
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Off The Beaten Path’s Shoutout Saturday # 4 belongs to Michigan Artist and Entrepreneur Darcy Kann of Mio, Michigan. She is the proprietor of Rusted Roots Art & Apothecary. Darcy’s entrepreneurial reach touches the community in many heartwarming ways through her artistic talents. She conducts art workshops for both children and adults throughout the year. These workshops are generally available in-store or elsewhere in the town.
So yes! I want to give big shoutout to Darcy Kann.
The term Apothecary is not a commonly used term around town, but it better describes the practical use of natural medicines, herbs, teas, salves and liniments you won’t find at the local Drug Store. However, you will find an abundance of these items at the Rusted Roots Store in Mio, Michigan. The shops proprietor, Darcy Kann has an assortment of herbal teas, rubs and pain relievers on her Apothecary shelves. I for one am a firm believer in Natural medicines, especially since they helped me recover from my near death experience invoked while in the hands of our the modern medical model of corporate medicine. You can even pick up a copy of the book I wrote about that harrowing experience off the store’s shelves.
I, for one, am a firm believer in Natural medicines, especially since they helped me recover from my near death experience invoked while in the hands of our the modern medical model of corporate medicine. You can even pick up a copy of the book I wrote about that harrowing experience off the store’s shelves.
Other items in the store include a vast array of art, clothes, coffee cups, dog toys and jewelry.
Of course art is an all encompassing theme. There are paintings, sculptures and a beautiful array of handicrafts, including masterfully created quilts of many sizes and colors.
I personally have a pet peeve about shopping locally in support of our many talented artisans and local businesses. The Rusted Roots Art & Apothecary is located in Mio, Michigan at 109 E. 10th St. Drop by for some artistic and healing treats and say hello.
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YOOPER LIGHTS is a children’s book about searching for the magical, glow in the dark yooperlite stones found along the shores of Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Yooper stones are made up of mostly syenite rock, which is similar to granite, which means the rock looks like any other typical gray rock, but there’s a magical twist. Yooper stones are rich with fluorescent sodalite, which glows a vibrant orange or yellow under Ultraviolet Light.
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Get your copy of Yooper Lights Here
Pen and Ink from my lighthouse series of paintings. This is the Big Red Lighthouse in Holland, MI. I painted it on a piece of scrap paper salvaged from the grass and the wind.
Don’t let your boat hit the rocks. Stay the course where goodness leads and heed the lights. They shine in the darkness to light the way, always, always bright.
***********************************************************************************************************My Children’s Book “If I Were A Lighthouse” available on Amazon.
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The trees know, and the little stream where the trout find no boundaries. The cardinals, the bluejays and the chickadees know as well. You don’t have to ask them, they give freely their gratitude in song.
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City Slicker’s Guide to the Amish Country https://www.amazon.com/dp/1940736188
Another painting from my lighthouse series.
My popular lighthouse children’s book is available on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1940736366
Currently at work on a Books Make Booms custom book for the Michigan Brown Trout Festival. https://www.booksmakebooms.com/new-custom-book.html
Michigan is home to the Big Creek Sasquatch.
The Michigan Store in Atlanta, MI is now home to Richard’s Conversations with Sasquatch Book 1.
The second book is due to come out soon so keep posted!
https://www.conversationswithsasquatch.com/sasquatch-novel-the-encounter.html
My painting for today is Round Island Light. It stands sentinel in the Straights of Mackinaw where the sun daubed skies of dusk and dawn glow a golden orange.