recovering our senses

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Enjoy photography from the garden and beyond, as well as three published stories about The Adventures of Avery Finn.

I am practicing the art of storytelling as a way to share experiences of love and loss.

My artistry is also expressed through the blending of garden botanicals with skin friendly oils, formulating healing potions and salves as instruments for selfcare. Although I no longer sell handcrafted botanicals, I will continue to share the beauty and wisdom of nature to inspire a deeper connection with your heart and our living planet.

Working with plants is a practice of Love

that allows me to share beauty and emotion without words or language.

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I grew up in flower gardens tended by my mother and grandmother, which inspired my passion for aromatherapy and cultivating healing plants. Now, I care for my mother's thirty-year-old rose gardens. Working with the plants and having my heart invested in their wellbeing is inspirational as well as foundational for how I create and formulate.

Nature is a teacher, and I often work with her medicinal gifts (plants) to unite healing with selfcare. The chemistry plants produce in their bodies for their own health and healing are the same chemicals all earthly based beings use to heal body, mind and spirit.

Our breath connects us intimately with plants, through the exchange of oxygen & carbon dioxide. Plants and fungi share their bodies with us both as food and medicine, and if to complete a cycle, our flesh is returned to nature in death.

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We can use our senses to restore balance between mind and body. With our eyes we can seek beauty, while our hands gently gather the tools for selfCare.

The journey we take to mend ourselves, our families, communities and planet begins with a willingness to heal what is within.