Beauty & Inspiration
I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you in my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had, and lift you up like a prayer to the sky. […]
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Muse: Grief, Fragrance, Recovery
The world (Earth, Gaia) needs us and our strange, feral loving. However it manifests. After after my oldest son, Jason, died, there was no hope for me. I just wanted the pain to stop. I wanted to see and hold my son again. I did not want to be in such a world that Jason
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Herbal Self-Reliance: One Woman’s Journey
A garden, small or large, like a nuclear or extended family, gives us a protected, friendly place to grow — not only to grow herbs in a way compatible with nature, but to grow in our own psychic awareness, to cultivate our potential for being sensitive and responsible citizens of the planet and grateful caretakers
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White Pine – Healer and Guardian
White Pine has always been special to me. Where I grew up in the Saco River watershed, and where I currently live in New York, White Pine is one of the predominant evergreens. A fast grower, the White Pines can become giant guardian trees. As a child, a huge, split White Pine was my first
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Herbs for Skin Care
Herbs are truly gifts from Earth. Plants that grow in our gardens or in the wild are full of beauty and vitality and their own unique healing energy. My love affair with herbs began over thirty years ago. But it wasn’t until I moved to Fryeburg, Maine (I moved from ME to NY in 2018,
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Goldenseal Story
My adventure with Goldenseal started with three healthy roots I received from United Plant Savers – part of their fall 2012 “give away” to members. At the time, I was living in Fryeburg, ME (where I lived for 22 years until the fall of 2018 when I moved to NY). Goldenseal is a deciduous forest
The Lost Language of Plants – An Interview with Stephen Harrod Buhner
The linear mind is what creates the boundary line between us and the world. Location of consciousness in the brain closes the door to Nature. But the door is unlocked. Perceiving through the senses opens the door. The more sensitivity we cultivate to sensory flows, the more directly we perceive with our senses, and the
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The Open Space of Democracy – An Interview with Terry Tempest Williams
The Arctic is a landscape where migrating birds create blizzards with feathers, where polar bears walk on water, and where white owls circle solitary men, reminding them of their limitations. Here, it is not unusual for wolves to walk up to children to har the words spoken by humans; or to find a piece of
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Born to Love the Earth – An Interview with Linda Hogan
Outside it is thawing. The creek is breaking apart. Water seeps out of the rock canyon above me. It has been around the world. It has lived beneath the lights of fireflies in bayous at night when mist laid itself about cypress trunks. It has held sea turtles in its rocking arms. It has been
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