I started a journey in May of 2024. I jumped because staying was no longer an option. I have been working a full time job since I was 15 years old, and I just turned 60 this past September. Even writing this seems strange. I don’t know if aging has changed my view of how i live and what I want or want to tolerate. I just know that in June of 2021 I left my job of going on 23 years for what I thought was going to be a dream job.

Spring has definitely arrived. When I go out in the morning darkness and can hear the beginnings of a hundred bird songs. All singing to bring up the sun. Then in starts the peeping, croaking song of the frogs.

That’s how you know it’s Spring. All the songs that it brings. It really feels like they are singing the sun up into the sky. Singing the trees and plants up out of their sleep.

The squirrels are running around my yard and I saw a fox too. The vultures have arrived, I always see them as a harbinger of Spring. As an herbalist and nature being this is when I really start feeling antsy. I want to twirl and dance to all the songs.

Already my sweetgrass is growing and my stinging nettle. I found tiny cleavers , chickweed, motherswort, chamomile and so many other sprouts. Can’t wait for the bounty they provide in food and medicines.

Isn’t nature wonderful ?!