I have been wanting to write about my own healing process for a long time. I have resisted writing specifics about my healing challenge because I don’t want pity from people. I have not wanted the “poor Julie” attitude. What I have come to realize in healing myself is that each of us is healing […]

I just made a recording of this essay. May it be in Beauty. “I give away my blood of life to all my relations. I open my womb with delight.” Brooke Medicine Eagle The Red Tent: A place of sanctuary and power for women during their monthly moon time. It is also a time for […]

Apple’s Initiation ~ Persephone’s Teaching Allow yourself to enter the story and receive Persephone’s gifts. I have learned quite a bit from standing under our Gravenstein Apple Tree. She is a stately home for many birds and insects. She wears garlands of pink blossoms in spring and in Autumn her fruit offers deep nourishment. Apple […]

I return to this writing from six years ago.  Lahaina and Maui have been devastated by fire.  I am grieving the loss of so much in nature and I still trust that Earth will endure. What is our path forward with this?  Who are we as Earth?  May it be in Beauty. (August 15, 2023) […]

I have been gathering and harvesting St. Joan’s Wort, Hypericum perforatum for over twenty years now. This plant is a European immigrant and thought by some to be a noxious weed. What is really true about this plant is that she is an amazing healer offering us a type of nourishment for the soul. St. […]

do we have to understand everything? once long ago, I was afraid to be around other herbalists everyone knew more than me Then I was struck with the notion I would be “She Who Does Not Know”. everyone knew things I didn’t feel like I knew anything this was the beginning of the path. I […]

Ah yes, another transformation is happening in our garden.  The chrysalis forming once again…… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` Today I was out in the garden to weed a little, but mostly to tend and plant. It is a pretty wild scene out there. We have had a lot of rain in the past nine months and now we […]

This essay was written 11 years ago, in mid-April, 2006 Just a week or so ago I returned from California where I attended a Shamanic Healing intensive through the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. It was incredible opportunity and I am changed because of it. It rained, actually poured for most of the time and the […]

I wrote this essay last year, after our wild rose harvest.  It is almost time for that again.  The wild rose leaves are spicy and fragrant and the buds not yet visible.   It has been many years since I discovered the wild roses growing in abundance on our land. We moved here in December […]

I wrote this essay a few years ago.  I decided it was time to bring it back because I still love weeds and we still need to sing their songs….and they are coming forth in abundance this year with all the rain.  I added three more weeds to the list.  A couple of years ago, […]