October is Essiac meetup month!

I am sending out a call to all Essiac users, producers, growers and wildcrafters - let's get together!  October 1 will find myself and Mali Klein in Bracebridge, Ontario, Rene Caisse's home town and where she had her cancer clinic in the 1930s.  We'll be talking to some folks who have had a part in Essiac history, and visiting what's left of the Essiac sites to see. We'll be making lots of video and uploading to YouTube.  I'll be blogging all about it! I am really excited at the prospect of meeting some of my fellow Essiac advocates.

Mali will then be coming out to Montana later in the month, and we'll be putting on the Essiac Master Class in Missoula on October 27.  We'll also be hosting an Essiac meetup potluck at the Bistro in Polson Montana on October 19 for any and all fellow Essiac folk to network and  enjoy an evening with Mali.  Call (406) 883-0110 to reserve a place at the table, or email Debbie!  Let's find our common purpose and work together for Essiac - hope to see you there!

The dream … to grow the Essiac herbs applying permaculture principles, to hand-harvest the herbs, and to provide a model for community-scale production of Essiac and other medicinal herbs.  In doing so, to meet local or regional needs in the retail sector as well as through charity.  To produce the highest quality herbs so that this remedy can be researched properly and its value officially proven, as was Rene Caisse’s lifetime dream.

What else to do in Missoula in October?  Here's a great preview from Permies.com!

A Tribute to Jimmie MacKimmie

I had the blessing of having some sessions with Jimmie last fall and it changed my life. I was sad to hear he had passed but I know he is still with us. I'll be at his memorial service. He is a sweet soul. This tribute is full of his healing energy and so well worth the watching whether or not you knew him this side of the sky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFmYOGt4m6A

Information, inspiration, action: the alchemy

There is so much information at our fingertips in this 21st century world and lately I, being a child of the 20th century, have been  feeling the gap.  I find myself googling everything while my books gather dust and the days fly by!  I am in awe at the agility of the new generation in electronically interfacing with the world.  There is so much to learn and know and much of it free on the internet.  But its a bit like going for a bath in the ocean... Read More →

Roots are at the root of it!

Something Rehmannia  Dean Thomas said has piqued my curiosity - he is big on Chinese medicine, and sells mushroom extracts and combinations and also has a channel on Ustream.tv.  He has a book out called Healing Thresholds, A Modern Journey Into Taoist Health Philosophy, that proposes that "Small changes in behavior - such as thoroughly chewing our food, choosing almond milk instead of dairy milk, taking a green super food, or taking a daily brisk walk - may seem on the surface to be unconsequential things, but such modest, non-invasive shifts in our diet and lifestyle can wind up triggering profound changes in our health and the integrity of our life experience."

Read More →

Peace begins with a smile. ~ Mother Theresa

I don't mean to offend anyone but these words are my soapbox today.

Especially with Komen for the Cure being in the news, the trailer for Pink Ribbons Inc. got this movie on my to-watch list. The Komen Foundation has always seemed a little too much about publicity around raising money for cancer research...and not enough about looking outside the box for the answers. Back in 1963 Rene Caisse said in I Was Canada's Cancer Nurse, "What actual progress has been made during the past 50 years in the cancer therapy field?....Until the public is aroused, and demands the liberty and freedom to get the treatments of their choice, this tragedy will continue for an indefinite time." Fast forward another 50 years to 2013. Read More →

And so it begins

"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who stand looking."

– Albert Einstein

I find myself with a blog site.  Thanks to Dutchsinse the “alternative weather guy” on YouTube. Read More →