In the tunnel
tried to keep me in depravity
slowly found why
but never actually reaching to the top
spin spin like a whirlwind
frail and lisped is just a fleeting moment in what
we call time
there was something
I wanted to say
but I forgot what it was
you tried to put me in a hole
inched the way out but
never nervously getting
all the way
The Last Kiss Weather it be A Husband Or wife Child or Grandchild Someone close to your heart A parent.grandparent or acquaintance
That last kiss will always
Be embedded in your mind
and heart leaving
a lasting impression
That last kiss
remembered through the ages
Tommy
The Cat in the cradle
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Be Well Natural Herbs
.Originally a native of southern Europe, lemon balm now grows wild in many parts of the world, including areas of the U.S. It's a perennial in hardiness zones 5 through 9. It's also a bee magnet. The "melissa" in its scientific name is Greek for honeybee. You've probably heard that honey bees have been having a tough time with parasitic wasps and pesticides in recent years. Show your bee love by filling a corner of your garden with lemon balm. Imagine the honey that pairing would produce. Oh, and if you've had trouble pollinating your squash blossoms (or anything else), plant a little lemon balm nearby for added insurance.
This versatile herb is easy to grow. For everything you get into the bargain, you'd expect lemon balm to be persnickety about soil pH or susceptible to wilt or vulnerable to the predators of common insects. It turn out that everything about this little plant is good news, though.
One of my favorite herbalist and healer said Lemon Balm “causeth the mind and heart to become merry…” – Nicholas Culpeper
Infusions of fresh leaves are used for depression, nervous exhaustion, indigestion, nausea, and the early stages of colds or flu.
Tinctures are best when made with fresh leaves. They are used for the same conditions as infusions, but small doses are usually more effective.
Compresses are soaked in infusions to relieve such painful swellings as gout.
Ointments are used on sores, insect bites, or to repel insects.
Essential oil can also be used on shingles (5 drops to 1 tsp. olive oil and gently massage into area). Note that the commercial lemon balm essential oil is difficult to find, and most are adulterated with lemon or lemongrass oils.
Infused oil is used warm to hot as a gentle massage oil for depression, tension, asthma, and bronchitis.
Juice can be applied to cuts and scrapes.
Lotions made from an infusion can be applied to cold sores.
** Information on the traditional uses and properties of herbs are provided on this site is for educational use only, and is not intended as medical advice.Every attempt has been made for accuracy, but none is guaranteed. Many traditional uses and properties of herbs have not been validated by the FDA. If you have any serious health concerns, you should always check with your health care practitioner before self-administering herbs. **
.Originally a native of southern Europe, lemon balm now grows wild in many parts of the world, including areas of the U.S. It's a perennial in hardiness zones 5 through 9. It's also a bee magnet. The "melissa" in its scientific name is Greek for honeybee. You've probably heard that honey bees have been having a tough time with parasitic wasps and pesticides in recent years. Show your bee love by filling a corner of your garden with lemon balm. Imagine the honey that pairing would produce. Oh, and if you've had trouble pollinating your squash blossoms (or anything else), plant a little lemon balm nearby for added insurance.
This versatile herb is easy to grow. For everything you get into the bargain, you'd expect lemon balm to be persnickety about soil pH or susceptible to wilt or vulnerable to the predations of common insects. It turn out that everything about this little plant is good news, though.
One of my favorite herbalist and healer said Lemon Balm “cause-th the mind and heart to become merry…” – Nicholas Culpeper
Infusions of fresh leaves are used for depression, nervous exhaustion, indigestion, nausea, and the early stages of colds or flu.
Tinctures are best when made with fresh leaves. They are used for the same conditions as infusions, but small doses are usually more effective.
Compresses are soaked in infusions to relieve such painful swellings as gout.
Ointments are used on sores, insect bites, or to repel insects.
Essential oil can also be used on shingles (5 drops to 1 tsp. olive oil and gently massage into area). Note that the commercial lemon balm essential oil is difficult to find, and most are adulterated with lemon or lemongrass oils.
Infused oil is used warm to hot as a gentle massage oil for depression, tension, asthma, and bronchitis.
Juice can be applied to cuts and scrapes.
Lotions made from an infusion can be applied to cold sores.
** Information on the traditional uses and properties of herbs are provided on this site is for educational use only, and is not intended as medical advice.Every attempt has been made for accuracy, but none is guaranteed. Many traditional uses and properties of herbs have not been validated by the FDA. If you have any serious health concerns, you should always check with your health care practitioner before self-administering herbs. **
Calendula: The growing plant acts as an insect deterrent, it reduces the soil eelworm population.
A yellow dye is obtained from the boiled flowers. An essential oil is obtained from the plant. Like most herbs,calendulas are adaptable and do not require a lot of maintenance.Roots will often adapt to space provided.can be grown in full sun or shade.The plant actually prefers cool temperatures the flowers last longer in filtered sun. The flowers are used cosmetically. They can be used in skin lotions and when added to hair shampoos will lighten the hair colour. The flowers are an alternative ingredient of 'Quick Return' compost activator. This is a dried and powdered mixture of several herbs that can be added to a compost heap in order to speed up bacterial activity and thus shorten the time needed to make the compost. The whole flowers can also be dried, and added to soups and stews in the winter as an immune tonic. This traditional folk use heralds from medieval Europe, where the flowers were also added to bread, syrups and conserves. Culpepper wrote, “The flowers, either green or dried, are much used in possets, broths, and drink, as a comforter of the heart and spirits, and to expel any malignant or pestilential quality which might annoy them.”Materia Medica Dill:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dill Dill (Anethum graveolens) is an annual herb in the celery family Apiaceae. The Health benefits of dill include promoting digestion,relief from insomnia,hiccups,diarrhea,dysentery,menstrual disorders,respiratory disorders,and cancer.Dill can be a powerful boost to the immune system and can protect from bone degradation.It is also an anti-inflammatory substance, which means that it can protect you against arthritis. Dill has been used for culinary and medicinal purposes for hundreds of years.Both seeds and leaves can be used. Apart from giving a strong, tangy, appetizing flavor and taste, it has many medicinal properties, which mainly come from certain compounds called Monoterpenes, as well as flavonoids, minerals and certain amino acids.
Trying to learn more every day: About mother nature and all its wonders
I love the transitions of the awe inspiring seasons
Wrapped in the smell of the newness
Spring springing up to life out from the earth
The sun bathing every particle in warmth
Summer with its heat deepening the roots
Of light changing each morning
Twilight coming a little sooner each night
A season of transformation and deepening
All colors appreciating living vivid reality
Make it what you wish it`s here and now
Fleeting into time and space the sun
Warms every thing in it`s glow of love for life
Fall`s brilliance reminds us of change
A lengthening of shadows and lingering dreams
BWalter
I would most likely have died if it wasn't for this plant.
Fever Few
Fever Few
Tanacetum parthenium, a Strong smelling perennial with yellow green ,ovate,pinnately lobed leaves to 3 inches long.Clusters of daisy like flowers to one inch across. The cheerful white daisy flowers with a big yellow eye are lovely to see and keep coming back .
I believe the fever few has saved my life many a time when I caught a virus or flu I make up medicine with it and several other herbs just for those occasions.Fever Few will make a bitter tonic but is a cooling herb with a pungent order. It relieves pain,relaxes spasms ,dilates blood vessels,lowers fever,improves digestion,stimulates the uterus,and has laxative effects.
Soil
Any sunny site with good drainage.Full sun to partial afternoon shade.Frost tolerant
Six-month-old, well rooted plants tolerate winter temperatures to -20F (-29C). Most individual plants die in their second or third summer, after blooming heavily.
Feeding
Mix a light application of a balanced organic fertilizer into the soil prior to planting. When plants emerge after their first winter, mulch with rich compost or topdressing with a balanced organic fertilizer.
Companions
Mint. Also grown with beds of other tea plants where insects are not wanted. Fever few repels insects of all nature.
Fever few Tincture
Another great fever few migraine treatment is a fever few tincture. This is a liquid extract in which you are pulling out the medicinal properties of a plant. It is done with glycerin syrup or alcohol (80 proof vodka or brandy). This is a way to get the best fever few benefits. Gather the fresh leaves or use the dried leaves of the fever few plant and wash them clean. Fresh leaves are better. Chop them up and put them in a half pint glass jar. Fill the jar with glycerin syrup or vodka. Make sure you cover the leaves entirely and cap tightly. Shake occasionally and store for 3 - 6 weeks in a cool, dry place away from sunny exposure.
It's important to keep your tincture away from heat as the medicinal property in fever few, parthenolide, will be destroyed if exposed to heat. This is true for drying the leaves for tea of for any other drying or preparations of the fever few plant.
After 3 - 6 weeks strain the leaves from the liquid and pour into a clean and sterilized glass jar, bottle or droppers extract bottle. Your long awaited medicine is ready! Take 20 - 30 drops a day. It could be that only one dose is what will reduce the migraine but you can take it up to 3 - 5 times per day if needed and be ready to receive all the fever few benefits for your migraine.
My existence is the cause, reason, and purpose
for with I am here
Snow was falling like a BLOSSOM.
I ROSE TO LOOK OUT THE WINDOW AND MY WHOLE LIFE HAD CHANGED.
Although I remembered that I was someone just
trying to survive in a capitalistic society
the wings on my back fluttering in the colorful wind
all the spectrum of colors that I could remember from past experiences.
Seeking for the unknown I shudder to think what exists in the dark realm
a formidable expanse of cosmic energy.
I lay in wait for the changing tide wrapped up like a cocoon.
This is what now is
when there is not a lot of light I found this to be true.
While we are light beings the light from the whole universe
around us sheds
Light
upon us and gives us reality.
I exist because I know that I exist right now on this moving planet