Summer flowers...

"Every breath is a giveaway dance between you and the plants." - Susun Weed

The designs of the universe radiate through you...

These are the ways of our grandmothers, the ancient ones. Every pain, every plant, every problem is cherished. Night is loved for darkness, day for light. Uniqueness is our treasure, not normalcy.

These are the ways of our grandmothers, the ancient ones. Receive abundance with compassion, knowing you will be food for others. Know that dying is a portal just as birth is. Celebrate all comings and goings, they are the turnings of the spiral. 

These are the ways of our grandmothers, the ancient ones. The joy of life is the give- away. You are the center of your universe. You are the axis, life's matrix, the still point in the ever-moving. The designs of the universe radiate through you. You are god, goddess, unique and whole.

- Susan Weed 

 

Ryan Drum, herbs, & children...

"Many of our companion wild herbs, plantain, dandelion, chicory, self-heal, many mints, yellowdock, yarrow, mallow, seem to thrive from human body traffic. I think we deprive our children of essential topical herbal nanonutrients and developmental medicines if we do not allow them to be in rough, vigorous plant contact." --Ryan Drum

(Source: http://ryandrum.com/epigenomics.htm)

March: Awakening, Beginning

"In March the earth receives the melting ice into her body, exposing a terrain with patches of yellowed grass surrounding tiny islands of snow. The bald, muddy soil, rich with water, sinks beneath each footstep that leans upon it, but this muddy dirt hastens the emergence of tender, green tree shoots, of down-covered baby weeds and bulbs planted in the fall. The yearning for newness born of the incessant cold that tossed our restless bodies in February is now satisfied as the dance of change begins in earnest and our eyes, ears, nostrils, and skin are deluged with signs of the returning spring."

Judith Berger, Herbal Rituals