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Healing Gardens. Healing World.

Leave a Comment / A Life of Meaning / s. rochelle

There is much that is outside of our control, but raising a garden is one small thing we can do to nourish the part of the world we live in right now, right here. The modern world seems to be ever-increasing in its speed and demands and disconnect. Perhaps growing a garden is one of the things that will counter this.
As Wendell Berry said, “A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world.”

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Greenhouse Roots

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My grandmother’s greenhouse was one of the first places my little roots passed through on their way to becoming the woman I am today. I feel her memory in every greenhouse I walk through today. It rests on my shoulder like a warm presence, and I am taken back to that first greenhouse I knew and the woman who filled it with plants. It is a place and a woman who would be absent for the majority of my life. Yet it is a place and a woman who left its essence forever entwined in my psyche.

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One Cup of Tea Won’t Fix Me

Leave a Comment / Healing, Seed of Life Herbal Teas, The Tea Life / s. rochelle

When I share the potential health benefits of the herbal teas I blend, I do so with a bit of hesitation.
Sometimes I choose to share the practical, physical attributes of a plant. Other times I mention its energy personality, or focus on how it has featured in stories and mythology.
None of it is set in stone, but it all plays a part.
Plant medicine can be a powerful ally in our search for wellness and vitality. Other times, however, it seems as though it does nothing. What gives?

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What You Will Find Here

s. rochelle poetry, Seed of Life Herbal Teas / s. rochelle

My grandmother had this little saying: If you put a fifty cent plant in a five dollar hole, you’ll have a five dollar plant.

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Brewing Guidelines For Loose Leaf Tea

Seed of Life Herbal Teas / s. rochelle

Watching loose leaf tea steeping is a beautiful thing. Yes, you can use a disposable tea bag if you like. I get it – sometimes that’s easier. But when you first see those curled tea leaves unfurling, and flowers opening in your water, there’s no going back.

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Opening

Healing, S. Rochelle Poetry / s. rochelle

You say you’re broken
like it’s a bad thing, but
seeds break
to rise through the earth…

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The Bone Woman

Healing, S. Rochelle Poetry / s. rochelle

The story of La huesera, or the bone woman, is an old legend from the mountains of Mexico. The bone woman wanders the deserts and collects the bones she finds, specifically wolf bones.

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Stay

S. Rochelle Poetry / s. rochelle

I know
summer is falling
and the geraniums are fading
and the basil’s gone to seed, but
the sedum is greening
by the back fence
and I’d like to show you
how purple it will be in autumn….

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The Lone Crane

Poetry & Music, s. rochelle poetry / s. rochelle

Mistdrifts on the lake, a singing bowlof mystery, pinesangling the rim, breathof September thinningand catchingon the edges of autumn,and on the cuspa crane waits. He seesleaves releasing in mute surrender,revealingforgotten robin beds, feelswarmth retreatingfrom the skin of the earthdown and down intodeep and unshakeable summersunder the world. He standsregal, listeningfor the messenger wind callingwitness to

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Let There Be Light

S. Rochelle Poetry / s. rochelle

And there was light.

Not that glow we call light,
heaven-descending,
healing and rescuing in fantasy endings,
no, not that light, but

Light
that holds hands with darkness…

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