Given that it’s not possible to make an image of a red dogwood… Sadly, a photograph, not an image of a red dogwood. There’s a lot of camera in that thing. … […]
Spiritual Painting with Light
The Art of Fall Medicine
Choke cherries have long been used to heal respiratory ailments, by drying inflamed tissues. One might as well say that in the fall, choke cherry goes black, with black leaves, black fruit […]
What is Medicine? What Isn’t?
In Western culture, artistically-prepared, purified products are medicine. They are designed to correct a deficiency or combat an invasion to the body’s temple. The natural state of this temple is one of […]
Placenta of The Earth
Every red osier dogwood is a placenta. It streams with blood into the sky … … or it catches the sky, and brings it to you. Traditionally in this country it was […]
Medicine Fly
This grassland creature is full of powerful medicine. Until someone corrects me, I’m just going to call it medicine fly. Ignorance, perhaps, is bliss. I’ve noticed her sisters on the hill for […]
Sacred Waters, Part One
To be sacred is to be set apart. It is an active process. When applied to civic, personal, and earthly space, it is like framing a painting. A frame will make even […]
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