Herbal Traditions
Every spring one of my favourite events is the Meadowlark Festival in the Okanagan Valley. I have been attending it regularly since 1996 when I moved to Penticton. This year I was fortunate enough to have close conversation with Richard Armstrong the knowledge keeper for the Okanagan nation and the Nsyilxcen language. He teaches that our parents are the 4 legged creatures, the winged, the water creatures and also the plants. They are there to support us and also we need to honour and respect them as our very own parents. Also that we will be drawn to one of these parents more than others. Also just as every strand of hair is connected to our head, so also every living entity on this planet and even our whole universe is connected to the One Being and also interconnected to each other in that way. My own area of interest in plant medicine brings up an opening that is in the process of coming together. It stirs a desire to learn from the ancient cultures and their traditional know...