No one owns medicine. Medicine owns us. It has rules of engagement – like the female body is an original instruction. Plants are relatives not resources. Plants cannot be catalogued (as the anthropologist has so often done). They are adaptive. Their effect changes with us and we change with them, as we connect as relatives. […]

I devote so much of my life to understanding how to restore myself and my connection to my cultures – since I was first sat down by my elders and given my obligations (and lifetime puzzles lol). I hold them in my core. always. Obligations are not to be shared, but lived. One of my elders […]

Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands. ~ Linda Hogan We all have ancestors — we are all descendants. When your grandmother dies, she becomes your ancestor. Each of us could/should […]

I don’t care who you are, you have experienced, and carry the effects of, trauma. Trauma is ubiquitous. Being born into modern times itself is a trauma. The world has changed so much in the last 150 years, our evolutionary nature just can’t keep up. We were born to move at the pace of walking […]

I came to traditional foods and urban farming first through my slow-food Food Cart, Fold Crêperie way back in 2003-6. Fold was one of the first food-carts to use organic farm-based ingredients and Slow food principles in our cooking or to appear in a gourmet food magazine. When I was interviewed (without my knowing it of […]

Dear Mothers, I have been thinking so much about you, wondering what you’ve been up to while I’ve been away navel gazing and trying to figure out what the heck I’m doing. I imagine you are still enjoying the blissful/horrible reality of mothering, that you are sometimes over the moon in love with that precious […]

Lately, I have been thinking a lot about love. About how we are always calculating love’s scoreboard. About how we know we shouldn’t but we can’t help it. It seems so natural for us to get tangled up in the do’s and don’t’s, the right and wrong, the eternal calculation of everything. Agonizing over every […]

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in. ~Mother Theresa I have been talking about the weeping for many years. Mostly just with myself and the Angels. I sometimes describe it to people to explain why crying isn’t such a bad thing, when it is done right. Why I cling […]