by JoAnne Dodgson | Oct 25, 2019 | Blog
In our years among the red rock mesas in Abiquiu, NM, we had daily encounters with coyotes, ravens, lizards, jackrabbits, and the many others who flew, crawled, nested, rooted, and migrated in these lands. My curiosity, love, and sense-awareness were enlivened by...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Oct 5, 2019 | Blog
Osha Root is my cherished remedy during cold and flu season, for allergies and toothaches. Osha grows high in the mountains near my home in New Mexico. Osha has long been a traditional remedy for the peoples living here. Osha is also known as Bear Root because of the...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Sep 25, 2019 | Blog
When trees drop their leaves in the Fall, the trees simply let the leaves go. No effort to keep everything in place. No fears. No resistance to the unfolding changes. The trees let go of the leaves because it is time in the natural cycles of life. Of the trees. Of the...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Sep 8, 2019 | Blog
My bundle of sage was dwindling. This particular sage plant offers medicines for smudging ceremonies. I’ve heard this plant called Indian Sage, Buffalo Sage, Dakota Sage, but the sages labeled with these names in herb stores were not the plant I was looking for....
by JoAnne Dodgson | Aug 1, 2019 | Blog
Pythons have the ability to squeeze the breath of life away. And Pythons are one of the few snakes who stay with their eggs to nourish the birthing of new life. Mama Python wraps her body around her eggs, holding so close that the imprint of her scales are left in the...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Jul 23, 2019 | Blog
What if no one, no thing, is deemed worthy of judgment? What if no one is positioned as better-than and no one is less? What if we humans stop considering ourselves as better, entitled, more valuable and deserving, than all our non-human companions and relatives on...
