Allorino
Enjoy this super casual video on how to make Allorino, a bay leaf digestive liquore.
Bay laurel has so many beautiful myths and stories, medicinal properties and magic — if want to learn more and sit with bay longer before making allorino please do so!
If you want a more In...
Simple protection when the eye feels out of control.
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Cheesemaking, Pastoralism and Capra Girgentana
Pastoralist life has always pulled me, so much that a few years ago I got a pastoral dog — in hopes that one day I’d be able to have some land to keep goats or sheep on. It hasn’t happened yet — but I remain hopeful.
There is something about the simplicity of the...
Ancestral Art: basket making in Sicilia
We arrived in Isnello, Sicily, a small village in the Madonie Park, after a long and treacherous drive through the S- turn after S- turn mountain roads in a large van.
Though Isnello is both in the same province and mountain range as where we were staying— in Petralia...
a moment of contemplation
When I first starting sharing my work online, I was a new mother. I had just come out of Los Angeles with a brick and mortar business (a small storefront yoga studio and apothecary) and sporadic jobs doing music PR and journalism and marketing writing and none if it really made sense anymore. So...
Sant'Agata + Etna Volcano: Nourishment Severed
A couple weeks ago I was telling my 80-something year old Sicilian- born Italian language teacher about my travels to Sicily. Every time I talk with her about my pilgrimages to Sicily — she cries. She left the island as an 18 year old and though she’s been back to visit, in her older...
tending to our spiritual space (my Sicilian folk methods)
Ciao Amici!
As I mentioned on Instagram, I wanted to share some of the ways I protection my spiritual space using tools and talismans of my ancestral tradition.
But first I want to share something I think is essential to begin. Their is a personal energy that really needs to be practiced while we...
Madonna dell'Alto || ancestral healing
(the following is a small excerpt from the first draft of my book)
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“È una passeggiata facile. Vai dritto.”
Mario put a bitter espresso in front of me, added a shot of fennel liquor to it, and laid down a plate of soft freshly...
sfincione {a special pizza from Palermo}: ancestral eating for the seasons.
My Zia (aunt Pina) had creamy, flawless skin, silver white hair, and bright blue eyes. She looked nothing like what someone from Sicily "looks" like. That's because Sicilians don't look like anything. They are 2000 year mix of so many different genes from so many different places. There is a...
Marybeth Bonfiglio
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MaryBeth Bonfiglio has been teaching and guiding writing to both youth and adults for over a decade. Sheβs trained in midwifery, herbalism, and yogic philosophy while practicing healing and magic through her lineage passed on traditions. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree in creative non-fiction from Antioch University, Los Angeles.
