Cheryl Capaldo Traylor she/her
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Cheryl Capaldo Traylor she/her
@cherylctraylor.bsky.social
Intentional living. Slow living. Small joys. Gardener. Naturalist. Reader. Writer. Maker. Herbalist. Woodswalker. 🌿 ⛰️ 🌙
Infinitely curious. Neurodivergent.
Bread and Roses.
“Some things you must always be unable to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are and how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash. Your picture in the paper nor money in the bank, neither. Just refuse to bear them.” #Faulkner #JackKornfield #reading
April 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
March 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
BIG win at Cameron today! Duke Blue Devils 80 over Syracuse 49. WTG @dukewbball.bsky.social What a game! @dukeathletics.bsky.social #ForeverDuke @dukealumni.bsky.social
February 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Should be finishing up my taxes, but I keep tripping over the books by my chair. Love this poem by Mark A Noll. It’s all perspective. `Snow’ #poetry #snow #winter #books #reading
February 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
In 2019 I saw Jaki Shelton Green receive NC Humanities Council’s highest award. The poet and activist, Nikky Finney, introduced her and gave one hell of a speech. 🔥 That night I sent Finney an email. Within 15 minutes she had emailed me back. Read that last sentence. “We will get through this…” ❤️
February 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
February 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Still reading this gem. Lots of good info and entertaining asides. #appalachia #herbalism #folkmedicine #reading
February 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I needed some joy today so I went to Pine Knot Farms Hellebore Festival in VA. I’d like to share this bowl of hellebore happiness with my @bsky.app folks. Please take a deep breath in and out and relax, just for a minute. It’s a marathon, not a sprint. #resist but don’t forget to live. #flowers
February 15, 2025 at 12:07 AM
February 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
First time going off-script (off-recipe?) making elderberry syrup. I’m adding my own touches this time. Cardamom pod, cloves, ginger root, lemon peel, and Ceylon cinnamon chips. Sure smells good simmering. Hope it turns out! #herbalism #healthcare #herbs #making #elderberrysyrup
February 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
No more @bsky.app tonight. These two are waiting for me to play the nighttime treat game. It’s what we do. #cats
February 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Don’t forget to breathe. #bloomscrolling
January 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Independent bookstore shopping today! Quite a catch for me. Thanks @epiloguebooks.bsky.social for having the best (hard to find) books in stock. #books #shoplocal #reading
January 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
We are finally getting a pretty snow! It’s been several years. ❄️💕❄️💕❄️
January 22, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I love getting these short reminders/meditations/quotes from Spirituality & Practice in my email each morning. I was (harshly) reminded recently that I haven’t been taking good care of myself. Burnout is real! #onward #selfcare
January 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
January 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Looking through #theoldfarmersalmanac and see a beautiful spread on making herbal salves. I recognized the author’s name as a new friend here on @bsky.app (I think!).
Is this your article @naturevotesblue.bsky.social #herbs #herbalism #reading #making
December 31, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Over the holidays I made more elderberry syrup! I keep it on hand, especially fall through spring. I used to buy at my local natural foods coop, but now thanks to @rosemarygladstar.com @scienceandartofherbalism.com course, I make it myself! And it’s even better!! #herbalism #herbalist #herbs #health
December 27, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Love this #quote.
December 15, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Morning Read: “Serviceberries show us another model… where wealth and security come from the quality of our relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.” #RobinWallKimmerer #reading #books #community #nature with gorgeous illustrations by John Burgoyne
December 13, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Evening. My happy place. #home #fire #moon #thisislife
December 8, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Good morning from our home. The almost 22 year old kitty is grooming the 17 year old. I’m reading Christian Wiman’s Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair. I had this book for a while, but picked it up again Nov 6–a day of deep despair for me. #poetry #cats #essays #reading #books #life
December 8, 2024 at 12:41 PM
A Great Blue Heron a few years ago by my neighborhood lake. They are such wise creatures. And fierce defenders of territory. #nature #birds #home
December 6, 2024 at 10:15 PM
SO excited! My first order from Mountain Rose Herbs just arrived!! Lots of useful herbs for me to stock my #apothecary and make teas, tinctures, syrups for my @scienceandartofherbalism.com course with @rosemarygladstar.com.
I love learning new things and making my own healthcare. #herbs #herbalism
December 5, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Tiny gold fans covering the ground today in a client’s Raleigh NC garden. Beautiful and beneficial tree.

“Ginkgo is the only surviving species of a group of trees that existed before dinosaurs roamed the earth. Genetically, it has remained unchanged over the past 180+ million years.”(Clemson.edu.)
December 5, 2024 at 12:07 AM