From the Roots

Last year, I began collecting seeds. It wasn't something I intentionally set out to do. I had returned to the lands where I was born, in the mountains of southeastern British Columbia, for a deeply personal reason. My father passed away a couple of years ago, and I had come back to scatter his ashes at the ski hill in Kimberley, probably his favourite place in the world. Being there brought me back into a landscape that holds so much of my own history. There is so much I love

Since mid-December, my shoulder has been bothering me. Although I haven’t formally had it diagnosed, I’m fairly certain I’m dealing with periarthritis of the shoulder, or more commonly known as frozen shoulder. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), it has a much more poetic, if not slightly humbling name: “50-year-old shoulder.” Yay. Interestingly enough, over the last couple of weeks, I’ve had a noticeable number of people come into the clinic with very similar shoulder is