My sweet wife loves remodeling and fixin’ up old houses. It’s all I can do to keep her away from crowbars and paint cans. So, we’ve been watching a TV series about folks that are restoring old houses in Ireland. One of the interesting things I’ve noticed is that almost without exception, the barns on […]
Announcing HerbPet.Com! Having been a practicing veterinarian since dinosaurs roamed the Earth, I’ve had a lot of experience taking care of dogs. In fact, it was a dog that officially began my journey as an herbalist. It was a black Labrador. She was in liver failure. Unfortunately, modern medicine really doesn’t have diddly for liver […]
People often talk about the poop hitting the fan. But that talk is typically quite hypothetical. After all, what could really happen? Humans are very subject to what psychologists call the “Normalcy Bias”. We tend to think that the world we live in will always be as it has been during our own experience. But […]
As workers struggled to remove the wreckage and retrieve the bodies of the unfortunate victims of the tragedy they found, under the smoking heap of debris, a little pear tree.
Life can be really hard at times. We can suffer great loss and pain. Having been through some great loss and some significant pain at times in my life I have come to the conclusion that the best medicine for those sorrows and struggles is gratitude.
Personally, I’ve found the study and use of medicinal plants to be a wonderful gateway to really understanding the power of beach chairs. Herbs aren’t usually bandaids…well a plantain leaf can make a nice bandaid but that’s another topic. Herbs are for building, guiding, and supporting the body’s normal functions. They are complex combinations of nutrients, medicines, and energies that contribute to real change. Interestingly, when I’m doing an herbal consultation, the conversation often turns to other subjects like relationships, sorrows, joys, and dreams of the future. People often remark that no one has ever listened to them like that or that talking about those things has really made some important things much more clear for them. I’m not doing anything really…just sitting in my beach chair smiling mostly. But the fact that they sat down in the beach chair next to me and started talking, thinking, and looking at the amazing view offered by that simple beach chair is a transformative experience. They thought they were just going to talk about their symptoms or problems but, the next thing they know, they’re talking about the big picture and things that really matter and, often, important things that haven’t had their focus and attention for a really long time.
Coronaviruses are miserable critters. They can affect a number of body systems. In the good old days, the vast majority of human coronavirus infections merely resulted in a head cold or a little diarrhea. These days we have a new and improved coronavirus. It was found in some wonderful bat poop in a bat cave […]
As an herbalist, I’ve always been amazed at how many of our wonderful medicinal plants have specific applications for women. It’s almost as if God knew that the ladies would be doing lots more than their share in this project and put some wonderful green things in place to lighten some of their load. I’ve […]
As we gear up for the holidays, we spend a lot of time and money shopping for presents and stocking stuffers for the folks we love. We put out decorations; wreaths on the door, trees in the living room, and tinsel everywhere. We do all of these things so that we can be ready for […]
Well, it’s that time again. The time that everyone in the country starts awake in the middle of the night in a cold sweat asking… “Yikes! What if THAT guy wins?! Yes, it’s a stressful question regardless of which side of the political football stadium you’re sitting in. We sit in the bleachers of that […]
