Natural Valium
We all have emotional pain. Things happen, feelings overwhelm, mistrust of our ability to cope arrives and we are coaxed to divert, bury and avoid so others find it easier to be with us and we continue to function as … Read More
Memorial gardens for healing
Communities that have emerged through devastating events, whether like the terror of Ash Wednesday bush fires in my community, or the terror of this week’s Boston bombs, will understand the power of humanity pulling together to heal. Our traditional … Read More
A journey from anger to peace
From war ravaged homelands the children bring their familiar culture. Rocks were weapons, missiles in plentiful supply, propelled with anger towards injustice. In the absence of war in a new country, rocks present a dilemma representing the straddling of cultures … Read More
Where is familiarity?
Two small boys, buddies in class are sent out to ask me a question as i set out plants in their new Rainforest garden. ‘Miss, can we grow these seeds?’ I ask what they are from. It was fruit, the … Read More