The Green Kingdom

having endured pre-language, infant abandonment,
i've always felt more at home with trees and flowers
than i have ever felt among people -
so it just made sense i would learn early on
that, as herbs generally are to the body,

so too are flowers and trees
to the emotions,
to the spirit,

to the auric body –

flower medicine facilitates emotional processing,

which in turn affects the health of the physical body ...
whether negatively or positively depends on us.

For more in-depth information on flower medicine,
visit Dr. Bach's website in England
it is from Dr. Bach that we learn the pure basics ...

since Dr. Bach we have learned that in fact
each continent has its own a set of flowers -
regardless of the flowers,
the workings of the therapy are the same.
click here for a good inter-continental flower reference

I first learned to work with Green Kingdom energy

at the knee of Grandmother ...

well, she wasn’t really my grandmother,

but i could not have loved her more if she had been...
she was actually mother of the landlady and wife of Pa –

Grandmother's own medicine was Lithuanian

and blended nicely with NDN culture

(when I finally discovered that part of myself) ...

later, this Bostonian went on to refine those healing skills
with 2 Naturopathic physicians and even a flower crafter

in the Columbia River Gorge ...

flower medicine was destined for my shaman bag,
as hinted at in this poem written in my teens –

I doubt I recognized it at the time,

but the poem speaks of sacrifice and sacrament,
and of how the former fuels the latter
in the practice of one’s medicine