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The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Smile
Edible Plants~Medicine~Shrubs & Bushes~Story Garden

The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Smile

Summers in California are marked by hands with deep purple liquid running along palm lines and in between the fingers, dripping off the sides and trailing down the wrists, tiny brown hairs stuck to fingers and palms. Every time I look at a pair of […]

October 17, 2018
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Of Healers and Weavers: Bayabas
Cities and Towns~Edible Plants~Medicine~Story Garden

Of Healers and Weavers: Bayabas

I spent my elementary school vacations at my best friend’s home in Los Angeles, California. We grew up in Historic Filipinotown, an enclave home to the city’s first wave of immigrants from the Philippines. Her home had avocado and orange trees, abundant kudzu, and plenty […]

September 3, 2018
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A Tulsi in the Lotus
Cities and Towns~Medicine~Myth~Story Garden

A Tulsi in the Lotus

A TULSI IN THE LOTUS On a visit to Goa, a coastal town in India, I kept seeing tulsi vrindavanas on the streets that I walked. Many of them were lotus-shaped. Tulsi vrindavanas are raised stone, brick or plaster structures, generally placed in the courtyards […]

June 20, 2018
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Chicken pox and eyeballs
Medicine~Story Garden

Chicken pox and eyeballs

My daughter developed a decent dose of chicken pox aged 4. Not unwell just a bit sore and itchy…. the poor tolerant child allowed me to experiment. She had baths of oats and just emerged slightly sticky with a warm aroma of ready brek. We […]

June 16, 2018
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