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Weekly lessons learned from living in the forest, making art, growing medicine, exploring folk traditions (particularly of Polish origin), and exploring our shared language with the cosmic world.

Newsletter · By Val Alcorn · English · Paid tier available · Official site

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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    A new season of old ways (opens the original)

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    The shop is now live! This is a brand new website with new prints and a couple of old favorites. See the details below for some notes.Enter The ShopAfter two years, the shop is finally open again! This feels like such a full circle moment. When all of this began deep in a cold wintery February while I was still working a 9-5 job, I had just four creations to offer. Three varieties of bitters and a salve. This time, I have the same salve and three mini plant prints {plus the

  2. Issue · Sep 21, 2026

    A fox appears in the dark (opens the original)

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    Friends, for reasons I’ll talk about in this newsletter, the new shop launch which was scheduled for this Tuesday is rescheduled to NEXT Tuesday the 29th at 7pm EST.{There are a lot of images in this newsletter, so you may have to click the “view entire message” at the bottom of this e-mail to see the whole thing!}The main reason I am postponing the shop launch is because of this seemingly random notice I received last week as I was finalizing my website. I write my Land Lines newsletter, but fo

  3. Issue · Sep 13, 2026

    Goldenrod, wintergreen, and shooting star (opens the original)

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    Without realizing it at the time, the first three prints in my new shop are plants I’ve studied before in my sketchbook, years apart {see the final prints at the end}. As I sat with goldenrod the other day just to draw, I remembered I also sketched shooting star and wintergreen. It’s funny how certain plants, like songs, can take you back to a specific season in your life. I dug through my sketchbooks and miraculously found them all, dating back almost a decade.<a class="image-link image2 is-vie

  4. Issue · Sep 6, 2026

    How to read the language of the land (opens the original)

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    The official shop re-launch will be held on the Autumn Equinox {9/22} at 7pm EST. It will be a small collection of handmade woodcut prints, a special edition zine, and some free goodies. More info to come.We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars. We have broken the great conversation.~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!quD2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pro

  5. Issue · Aug 24, 2026

    Return of the thunder waters (opens the original)

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