Category Healing-medicine

Balboa

January 17, 2007 · by · in Balboa, Betty, Cathy, Cheyenne, Death, Healing-medicine, Janine, Jasmine, Jessica, June, Kami, Margaret, Merilee, Ruby, Sena, Spiritual practice, The twins · 4 Comments

How is it women of the village know to come? But they do, one by one, to sit with Balboa, with our memories of her childhood, moments of laughter and tears. We breathe. We are present, witness to her grief, sharing her sorrow.

Mira

January 14, 2007 · by · in Balboa, Beryl, Bettina, Betty, Books/authors mentioned in Ordinary, Cheyenne, David, Death, Edible plants, Healing-medicine, Jacob, Jasmine, Jessica, Mira, Orchards/fruit trees, Packer, Plants in Ordinary, Ronnie, Ruby, Sena, Spiritual practice, Strawberry Hill, The land, Trees, Village of Jasper · 3 Comments

Packer cut the log in half lengthwise and hollowed out the pith, then lined it with beautiful green and gray mosses. He must have climbed very high in the trees to get so much clean, new moss.

Morn

October 14, 2005 · by · in Companion animals, Healing-medicine, Murgatroid, Native plants, Plants in Ordinary, Rose and Cheyenne's home, Rose's grandmother · 6 Comments

On my back, I give myself a Reiki treatment. Heat flows under my hands, spreading through skin, muscles, bones, organs–warmer and warmer, now hot. If I saw my body from above, would my abdomen glow like hot coals?

Bonnie

August 17, 2005 · by · in Animal husbandry, Betty, Bonnie, Community structures, Death, Healing-medicine, Jacob, Jonathon, Marita, Noah, Spiritual practice, Work practices · 5 Comments

We find her in the barn, her head in Jacob’s lap. Animals roam freely on the hills behind Ordinary, coming to the barn only for shelter. Weakened by illness, Bonnie must have sought comfort.

Sweat

August 4, 2005 · by · in Birds, David, Edible plants, Farming/Gardening in Ordinary, Healing-medicine, Native plants, Orchards/fruit trees, Ordinary water features, Sena, The land, Work practices · 4 Comments

Sweat trickles from the band round my brow into my ears and down my cheek. The back of my hand, as I wipe my face, smells of dirt, more sweat and the oils of well-used, well-kept tools.

Jacob

July 12, 2005 · by · in Animals in Ordinary, Cheyenne, Healing-medicine, Jacob, Jonathon, Marita, Ordinary reptiles and amphibians, Wild animals · 3 Comments

Almost always there would be tracks–sometimes it would appear an entire flock of quail had circled him. Others, we would see the tracks of a coyote or wolf, and sometimes a mountain lion.

Wake

June 14, 2005 · by · in Cheyenne, Healing-medicine, Housekeeping, Murgatroid, Ordinary arts and crafts, Ordinary textiles, Rose, Rose and Cheyenne's home, Textile plants · 5 Comments

I waken gently from a dream of wildflowers blowing on the hillside. Murgatroid’s soft paw rests against my cheek. The room is dark under the new moon. Cool air lifts the gauzy curtain at the window, graceful spectre.