Our Entire planet... Is having a crisis of acidity!

 

I and others were given free copies of this little book called 
"The Hundreth Monkey" back in (my more activist days) at an event just
North of Las Vegas in the Nevada Desert by the same name. Back then we.. All there were
Taking part in a larger  concert and  food not bombs sponsored
event to once and for all.. stop nuclear testing
At the Nevada Test site.
  There I also saw Michelle Shocked in concert... And though its been many years since I have sang her music... One lyric stands out...
"The secret to a long life is knowing when it's time to go!!!!!!! "
This was circa 1992. I continue to reference this book and carry it too.. where ever I roam.... 

We are not separate...and how easily We All forget! I too am learning and forgetting over and over again. 

Truth be told...eating more foods that are alkaline such as millet and what you tech savvy readers (and recently as today my old  Camp Arnold Girl Scout friend, camp name "ROWDIE " so gently reminded me in a facebook message).. I had to google... WFPB...stands for what we all know as ... 

whole food plant based foods....  And yes i too have been trying.. very slowly.. sloth like indeed.. more and more humans... Around the globe are discovering what many many cultures have known for so long... And that is that we truly do not need to eat animals anymore. ... I have tried over and over for years and have mostly eliminated all but occasional fish and chicken.. but flawed as we are.. know that I will continue to try try again. We have the ability to make these changes in our own lives.. and in these tumultuous times... We have to try to stay above ground and endure... Laughing at ourselves... Not taking ourselves.. ah that illusion of separation... So seriously. Or as the Hopi said in my message that started this entire blog back in 2007.. and/or to paraphrase ...

"as soon as you take yourself seriously... All of your spiritual growth grinds to a halt!".

So Thank You Rowdie! For nudging me back?..!!!!. To find this am... A website... Zillions it seems...

www.forksoverknives.com

Two of my favorite Herbal Reference Books and a gmail message to my Cousin Dawn! Essential oils and one or two uses!

 

I recently purchased as a birthday present for my cousin Dawn, a small collection of essential oils as an attempt to introduce her to an ongoing element in my life as an herbalist, plant geek and hater of all things chemical.

I have wanted to talk on the phone to her regarding these but these days its hard to dodge what others now have on their proverbial plates.

So now I will share some pictures of my little ever-changing kitchen table  collection... As well as a few other uses.. it seems alot folks over past ten years have jumped onto the herbal medicine bandwagon.. and oh what a good band wagon it is... And good shall always prevail.

Still my all time favorite guide for sharing herbal info with folks on my trails and medicine walks. My east coast version is a little more worn out.? But I love my West Coast version as well... 

 

I am still recovering from multi -illness.. computer zaps my vitality... I have been in the tail end of my third time dealing with covid related symptoms on top of long term Lyme's disease ... (Since 2009).. but as I almost always go barefoot and have two fur babies....I am constantly being bitten and re-affected.. so nearly every spring I start taking a natural antibiotic that is propolis and it kicks it back. 

Supposedly you cant fully get rid of it until you eliminate the bacteria.. and I have clearly not and will never choose to use big pharmas version... And I have not put big pharma into my body since my bout of stage one endometriosis ovarian cancer, back in 1994... And I sure as heaven am not going to start NOW!

On top of all of the aforementioned current ailments, nearly four weeks ago, I along with my beloved companion Mollie, ( as seen via this eddy since way back in  November of 2012 when I got her as a puppy) was bitten by a Brown Recluse Spider.  I didn't know it at the time, as I mistook it for yet another tick bite and or deer fly bite.. right smack in the middle of my right gluteus maximus.

I immediately referenced a little book I carry around since buying it directly from the author at the Pigeon Point Lighthouse Hostel back in 2008, (where I was living and working at the time) which is  "The Healthy Traveler" by Susan W. Kramer, Ph. D, AHG, Esq. 

Susan and I met for the first time when we were both down in Whaler's Cove there on the the beautiful Northern, California coastline while looking for pieces of sea glass and somehow struck up a beautiful conversation about plant medicine, our similiar paths in finding our way to the wonders of Herbal - Plant healing, our relationship with the plant world.. we both talked to plants... And the state of the world in general back in 2008.

This little book remains to be a gold mine of plant medicine/emergency back country remedies and alongside that Peterson Guide... It is always in my backpack.. .anywhere I go. 

Sidenote: Back in 2015 or so  I tried to go visit Dr. Kramer in her home... but something/ some large emergency was happening in Atlanta.. now unremembered my me,  that prevented her from remembering who I was... But i will always cherish that book.. as much as my wider fellow Herbalist community here in the States and as far away as Europe. I am supported in my health care decisions almost always by the community of Women involved in The Northern California Women's Herbal Symposium ( held back then every Memorial Day weekend ) who are now a much larger community in a facebook group called "Women Gather"  (where Thank God/dess, Great Spirit/ALL-that-Is) we can now  f r e e l y exchange remedies and solutions to finally heal ourselves, our loved ones and companion animals one and ALL. 

 So to bring it all around full circle..as an eddy...coming back around and around  I have also used essential oils for so many things over the past 27 years and will do so until I finally take the red clay road in the west back home myself. 

Aha! The Goethe Quote I've been searching for....

 

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, a chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all aspects of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth, that ignorance of which kills countless ideas, and splendid plans: that the moment one finally commits oneself, then Providence moves too. 

All sorts of things occur, to help one, that might never have occurred.  A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor, all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no (wo)man dreams could have come his/her way. 

Whatever you think you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it".

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Photos by 
Annie B. Siemer

 

My Moms John F. Kennedy head that has been an art piece in many forms over past several 10 years.!
This is jfk in the backyard, last summer...
And now this summer... 

He is a little worn for the weary... Not unlike ALL of us.. who are trying to navigate the slow moving revolution river of our times... Together as the ONE that we really truly Are! 
 

Mom's JFK
June 17,2022

Last night with Mollie in our one night of Luxury! And the Full Flower Super Moon following us all the way back home...

The Dinner Bell Motel

 

I have been dealing with chronic pain from Long term 
Lyme's Disease on top of long covid symptoms on top
Of a bite by a brown recluse!  And you sure can see it here in my eyes. 

For many weeks what I have wanted is merely to take a HOT bath. We are just a step above camping here and without a bathtub.. I take outdoor cold water showers...

So yesterday I appealed to my Facebook friends and two of them responded with money wired via paypal to help me get a hotel room last evening.  I originally wanted to go to Motel 6 in Ocala.. as I have stayed at them over these past Ten years caring for my Dad.. mostly on breaks away.. up north.. because my beloved dog Mollie can stay too.

Well gas prices being what they are.. combined with my failing health.. I decided to stay right here in our town of Dunnellon , on the confluence of the Rainbow and Withlacoochee Rivers at the Dinner Bell Motel.. a kitchy fixture of the heyday of old Florida motels that were here back when my Grandparents first retired here from Ohio and The New York Central Railroad in the early 1970s.

Here is a link to that.. but I will forever be grateful to my friend Claudia in Germany! And an old friend from Jones Gulch La Honda California, Rusi for funding our one night of pure luxury.. I felt like royalty and took several baths and showers.. very little sleep but MollieDawg slept soundly through the night for both of us.

dunnellonmotels.com. 

 Has some really nice links to other features of this beautiful area of Florida they call The Nature Coast. 

This morning I got up at my recent usual 4 am and was headed back home here by 6.

On the way we got to see The Flower Moon.. a full moon folks are calling a Super Moon.

Finding Arleen Polite part Three...

     

 

Self Portrait Woodcut
By
Arleen Polite

(Year Unknown)

May She Rest in Peace

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