My friend @ItchyKitten contacted me all jazzed up on Steemit a little while ago. He’s a nice tiger, so I checked it out and decided this community was one I would really love to be a part of. I’ve been tanning a white-tailed deer hide with his beloved @Encanta all week, so I have not had much time for long compositions to introduce myself to y’all in between scraping, braining, breastfeeding, cooking and eating delicious noms, sleeping (some), and repeating. I have, however, had ample time for reflection. Quiet “me time” working all the muscles in my body transforming goopy fat and flesh into soft and buttery fabric. Mmmm…smokey buckskin, I love you. Early on in the process I wondered aloud “Have I ever used my triceps before?!”

Now that the hardest work is done and I prepare myself for the final step of smoking the hide, I find enough spaciousness to begin to introduce myself to you. My daughter is napping, so let's see if I can post this before the beast awakens from her slumber. One thing I really like about Steem so far is how genuinely authentic everyone seems to be. I dig that. So instead of deliberating too long about what exactly to write, I am going to just run with this. Ample warning, I can have a tendency toward long-windedness, verbosity, and I may or may not always tell the full truth and nothing but the truth. But as a young lady coming from a long line of storytellers, I feel it is my birthright - nay, my duty - to tell a tall tale from time to time. This intro is all true, though. Every word, I swear.

Here are some of the things that make me come alive in this one wild, precious life of mine:

1. Tasty Noms

I am so fucking in love with tasty noms. I imagine all people feel this way, whether they are eating Tasty Cakes, Fatty Noms, Sweet Noms, Healthy Noms, or any other of the wide variety of Noms of the World, each with their own virtues. Here are some of my favorite tasty noms:

Mom Nom: What I feed my daughter from my breasts. It's what I ate from my mother from her breasts. Y'all hopefully had a similar experience. It is awesome. In the sage words of a friend's 3 year old: "Boob Medicine". Pure Magic.

Garden Noms: I am an avid gardener in the thick of becoming a full fledged regenerative farmer here on the community land trust where I grew up: Lunasi Land Trust, est. 1972 by my dad, a back-to-the-lander who thought the economic collapse was imminent. The origins of this mythical and magical land are complex and ancient, much too fascinating and wonderful to tell you all right now. But I can make future posts about this weird little hippy bubble in the middle of dairy farm country in the Endless Mountains of PA. We are a few families and many visitors who cook some of the dankest garden nom noms you have never heard of. We feast pretty much every single night, as is the only proper way to pay respect to the bounty and abundance of delicious and nutritious noms coming from this generous land pretty much year round.

Boozy Noms: We brew hard cider. Lots of it. And the combinations conceived of by my brilliant and creative brother, Danyota the Serpent Slayer, are out-of-this-world scrumptious! Everybody thinks so, and I agree. A modest goal of mine is for Lunasi Cidery to become to craft cider what DogfishHead is to craft beer. I’m giving myself 5-10 years to accomplish this goal, but aiming for 3 years out to go commercial (small scale) with our badass home brew. This year looks like it is going to be an excellent apple year, so we are planning to brew 4-5 barrels. (Promising beyond ability? challenge accepted!) I’d love to share that process with y’all, and share resources on cider, apples, grafting, actually starting an alcohol business in PA, etc., with other enthusiasts. I currently have a nursery with 50+ cider varieties I have grafted over the last several years. We are going to put them into an alley-cropping / multi-strata agroforestry system of 15 acres of hayfield here on the trust and convert an old barn we have into a venue space and tasting room for all the scrumptious noms we make here on the land. Favorite cider this year is the US-05 Lavender cider. Unexpectedly nommy.

~YoniPie Nom: I come from a long line of Pie Makers, and I have been known to sling a wild and wonderful many pies in my day. Recently, I shared with @Encanta a photo of vagina cupcakes which I had come across in something related to the Vagina Monologues. This got us excited (cupcakes+yonis=titillating) and so we made our first YoniCake: We took this to a neighborhood family potluck and just casually plopped it on the table with the rest of the desserts and walked away. Every so often we would hover nearby and watch people double-take and maybe snicker to themselves, or nudge their friends and giggle. But no one touched it. So, we dug right in, to much oohing and awing. Then everyone got their fair share of Yoni, as is only right in this world. After all, who isn’t going to want a Rose Petal &Black Pepper Shortbread HoneyMama YoniPie with Marzipan Labia, Lavender Whipped Cream, Toasted Coconut Pubes and a Gooey Strawberry Vaginal Blossom? Yes, Please!

We have since made 4 other delicious YoniPie Noms. One we made for the Lunasi 43rd Annual Pie Festival’s Midnight Pie (pictured above). The Other two mini yoni pies we made from sour cherries that are currently in season and some mangos we had lying around. It would be my pleasure to share pictures and recipes with this Steem community. We would really like to start a movement of women and men making YoniPies and taking them to all sorts of events. Why? If you have to ask why we should do this, then you should probably stop reading right now and definitely not follow me. New tag suggestions for Steemit: FreeYonis | YoniPies | WildYoniPies | KeepYourTinyHandsOffMyYoniPie

~Chocolatey Noms: I am semi-nomadic. My beloved husband and my little daughter migrate South every winter with me to the Choco-Pacific coast of Ecuador, where we are members of a regenerative farming community and cacao farm called FinkaAekolado. We make so many dank Chocolatey Noms and Fruity Noms, it is in-fucking-credible. I can share some Tropical Noms with this community in future migrations, and can share pictures of some of the Noms of seasons past. Mmmmmm…Cardamom Cacao Noms…Panela Candied Turmeric Cacao Noms…Mmmmmmm….

There are a bunch of other Noms that I fucking love.

Ducky Noms....

Shroomy Noms....

I am not going to go into all of them here, but you will get the gist as time goes on and I share more with you. I see food as foundational to the pursuit of happy, healthy, just and right living. Many of you probably already know just how fucked up our globalized food system is these days, so I am not going to get into that here. By cooking and eating delicious and regeneratively-sourced Noms, I really do believe we can go a long way toward healing the world.

Some other things that fire me up are:

~Regenerative LifeScape Coaching: I’ve got a website I constantly give myself shit about and which I am always feeling the need to update, but which I never update. I can’t login to it at the moment, so it is what it is. I traded a friend 4 winter squash and some cider to build it for me, and he did an awesome job. I think I am mostly just battling my inner-critic and the limiting belief that I suck at techie stuff. Pffffft. You can check it out if you like, and get in touch if you like. I am actually a really fucking badass life coach, ask anyone. And as my grandfather was fond of saying: "Humility is probably one of my finest qualities." http://vujadesign.org

~Making beauty: Sewing, beading, leather/buckskin work/cordage, basket making, etc. I love working with my hands and discovering all the incredible things human beings have learned to make with their ingenuity and the tremendous gifts of the Holies in the Wild. I am a humble student of many crafts and craftspeople, and I have miles and miles to go to live up to the grand aspirations I have…

~Wilderness: Got to have Nature, everyday. Nature Defecit Disorder is real and I am doing my best to make sure my family does not suffer from this crippling malady that is epidemic in so-called Western civilization.

~Singing makes my heart feel free.

~Dancing makes my spirit soar.

~Gathering People Together and ReMembering a Village supports me when I need it.

I am so grateful for the small amount of time I have already spent here with the Steemit Community. You guys all seem really cool, and I already have a few Steemit friend-crushes (who doesn't?!?). I see some of the quality content being created and curated here and I think to myself “right on! I want to meet some of these people for-realzies! They look awesome!” I am generally trying to spend less time, not more, in front of a computer. I, like so many of my fellow humans, am sick of the Facebook energy drain in my life. However, I want to feel connected to people, to meaningful things they do with their lives. Steemit might just give me an avenue for that. Can’t wait to see what emerges in the edge between me and all of you!

Thanks for reading. Now, for your amusement, the first meme I ever remember seeing and laughing at.

Because cute animal pictures always win.

Love, Lily