Camomile

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Tiny white flowers
Quiet, calm and harmony
Gentle medicine.

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Keira - with eyes to behold the wonder of the natural world

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The earth offers so many medicines. Looking in my back yard I see: blackberry bushes, raspberry bushes, mallow, horehound, olives, Peruvian tobacco, juniper, nasturtium, grandfather sage, lavender, geranium, salvia, oregano and rosemary.

There are other edible plants in my yard that may have a medicinal effect – but I don’t know effect they have. Such as the lemonaide plant- the berries eaten right from the tree have a tart lemonaide taste. I am told they can be made into a tea.

As a little one, I think I knew a bit more about herbal medicinals than I do now. I remember munching my way to and from school – picking bits of this and that to munch on. I came to have favorites and quickly learned what to avoid. In retrospect I see that I was an urban forager. I grew up in a small coastal community of picket fences and yards both well manicured and wild with a riot of life.  There were also the sand dunes with grasses and small plants along the shore.  Inland there was vacant land replete with trees to climb 'weeds' to roll in.  Unexpectedly, as the irrigation made the land look so rich with moisture, there were tumbleweeds growing in vacant lots and rambling down the streets on blustery winter days.  (As the area sans humans would have been mostly desert the tumbleweeds were more at home here than the plants and trees requiring heavy moisture).  One of my favorite sights was of the tumbleweeds of winter traveling the streets of my home town in Southern California.

Thinking that my granddaughter may lean the same way as me – thinking she sees every plant is food/medicine and every tiny stone is a gem or crystal. It seems she sees, senses and respects the magic and beauty of Our Mother Earth. So grateful for my Keira. 

 
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Kai and Keira enjoy a quiet moment with the flowers

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Elijah caring for the plants in his garden

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