The Herbsmith's Garden

The Herbsmith's Garden I'm a medical herbalist and Junior herbal club leader. I'm available for walks, talks & consultations

It's a bug's life ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’š at Ingleton library
05/08/2025

It's a bug's life ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’š at Ingleton library

04/08/2025

More Fairy and Bug making
Ingleton library
10.30 tomorrow

Making Fairies and Bugs at Settle Library ๐Ÿคฉ
04/08/2025

Making Fairies and Bugs at Settle Library ๐Ÿคฉ

30/07/2025
30/07/2025

The earth has shaken again, my relatives.
Far across the waters, off the Kamchatka coast, the land moved with the strength of 8.8 โ€” a number the scientists call it, but we know it as the deep groan of Mother Earth herself. She shifted in her bones, and her voice carried across the oceans.

Now the waves rise โ€” not gently, but with warning. The people of Japan, Hawaii, the Kuril Islands, even our relatives on the West Coast, are told to move from the waterโ€™s edge. The sea that nourishes can also take back what it has given.

We remember the great quake in Tohoku in 2011, and how it carried sorrow across the world. We remember Chile in 1960, when the strongest quake ever known shook both land and spirit. These are not just numbers in a book โ€” they are reminders that we walk on the back of a living being, and she is powerful.

The old ones told us that the waters are alive, that they listen, that they carry memory. When they rise like this, it is not just danger โ€” it is also a message. We must walk with humility. We must pray for those moving to higher ground tonight, for those caught in traffic, for the children whose eyes do not yet understand why their parents are hurrying them inland.

Let us hold them in our hearts.
Let us remember, too, that the land and the water are not our enemies โ€” they are our relatives, reminding us of balance.

Mรฎkwรชc, Creator, for this warning before the waves grow higher. May the people be safe. May the waters return to calm. And may we remember that every step we take is on living ground.

โ€”Kanipawit Maskwa
John Gonzalez
Standing Bear Network

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Television helicopter footage captures tsunami as it devastates north-east Japan on March 11, 2011. -End ID]







14/07/2025
14/07/2025

Looking forward to this! Great summer reading challenge ๐Ÿค“๐Ÿ’š๐ŸŒฟ

JHC at Settle school summer fete. Everything here made by the members of the club ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿ’š
11/07/2025

JHC at Settle school summer fete. Everything here made by the members of the club ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿ’š

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