A dark hardback book with a woven texture sits on a tan laminate background. Muted yellow and green botanical images of leaves and branches adorn the border with the title centered: The Green Witch The Natural Magic of Herbs, Flowers, Essential Oils, and more by Arin Murphy-Hiscock
Amazing finds! Here's my favorite in the same vein, "The
Green Witch" by Arin Murphy-Hiscock
Enjoy!
The link is in her bio. Lovingly, let's not ask Black people (on a post about writing for fellow Black people) to do our labor. Happy reading!
Cannabis is such a gorgeous plant
I ask this question ("you don't mask?" 😷) the same way I ask, "You don't wash your hands?! 🤢" in public restrooms
Skin is a large organ, fed by complex vasculature. Of course it's being negatively affected by a multi-systemic vascular virus. Grateful to researchers who continue advancing the scientific understanding 🦠
Mr. Rogers would still be wearing an N95 because being a good neighbour means caring about others even when it's inconvenient
Some medications can help you feel fewer symptoms of colds, flu, COVID-19, & more, but symptom relief from medication does not mean you can’t spread sickness to others!
Feeling under the weather and taking meds to help you get through the day? Many medications can help relieve your symptoms, but this doesn’t mean you can’t still spread your illness to others! Continue to stay away from others as much as possible and wear masks if you have to go out.
This is what "Make America Healthy Again" is actually about: eradicating the "unhealthy."
I wish more people understood the terror disabled people face when dealing with housing insecurity, poverty and unsafe caregivers.
Many in the community are forced to rely on abusive people for survival.
It shouldn’t be this way.
We desperately need more support & resources.
“COVID can lead to aggressive cancers.
James Van Der Beek, Shannen Doherty + Julian McMahon died from cancers between the ages of 48-56.
SARS-CoV-2 creates immune dysregulation, reducing tumor surveillance + creating inflammation. This is why cancers behave more aggressively.”
So happy to see you both enjoying a moment of peace, recreation, and connection
It's not too late to start taking precautions again! Your health and life are so very valuable 😷🫶
I frequently place requests with my library to buy various books, and sometimes they do!
"Disability culture is the creative and societal contributions that disabled people make from the specific lens of their disability... [which revolves] around adaptability, resilience and creativity, because it's by default how we have to make stuff and embrace joy, even in the midst of heartache."
New COVID-19 variant. Same protection. Wear masks. High-quality masks like N95 and KN95s (these are also called respirators) offer the most protection. Use the best available to you! Keep clean air. COVID-19 infects others most commonly when it is breathed in through the air. Keeping clean, well-ventilated air with open windows and air purifiers lowers the amount of virus in the air and reduces your chances of getting sick! Get vaccinated. Even when new variants develop, vaccines can help protect you from serious illness and death from COVID-19!
As you continue hearing about the new COVID-19 variant (the “cicada” variant) in the news, remember the protection remains the same! Wear the best mask available to you, keep indoor air clean, & stay up to date on vaccines to protect yourself & others from infection & serious illness from COVID-19!
![A passage from Victoria Redel's 2025 historical fiction novel, "I Am You" reads:
"I can't say I know a life other than the one I've lived, but it's a wonder how much a skirt or a pair of breeches changed any given day. Inside both costumes was me. Best was learning that I was as much one as I was the other.
Some might consider me peculiar for the way I've bent my ways of being human. But I would invite even the harshest judge to spend one day drawing the anatomy of flowers. Pull apart enough of them and you learn that plants contain myriad forms. Take the spring pussy willow. Some stalks are male. Some female. And bless the willing insects that carry what's needed between them.
Hazelnut and walnut house both male and female on the same tree, but the flowers claim one or the other. The hazelnut needs the orchard wind to pollinate, where the walnut in stillness shapes its own nuts.
It's all varied and surprising. Not peculiar at all. Indeed, I'm as common as the lily and the rose, the sunflower and the daffodil. A perfect flower, the botanists call these specimens that contain both male and female. They call them perfect, complete. That's how I feel."
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A passage from Victoria Redel's 2025 historical fiction novel, "I Am You" reads: "I can't say I know a life other than the one I've lived, but it's a wonder how much a skirt or a pair of breeches changed any given day. Inside both costumes was me. Best was learning that I was as much one as I was the other. Some might consider me peculiar for the way I've bent my ways of being human. But I would invite even the harshest judge to spend one day drawing the anatomy of flowers. Pull apart enough of them and you learn that plants contain myriad forms. Take the spring pussy willow. Some stalks are male. Some female. And bless the willing insects that carry what's needed between them. Hazelnut and walnut house both male and female on the same tree, but the flowers claim one or the other. The hazelnut needs the orchard wind to pollinate, where the walnut in stillness shapes its own nuts. It's all varied and surprising. Not peculiar at all. Indeed, I'm as common as the lily and the rose, the sunflower and the daffodil. A perfect flower, the botanists call these specimens that contain both male and female. They call them perfect, complete. That's how I feel." [The final paragraph is highlighted]
Happy Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️⚧️ May you be seen as yourself every day
I had shingles a two years ago and begged for the vaccine after, even offered to pay out of pocket. Was repeatedly told I'm too young. I have "post-herpetic neuralgia" (painful nerve damage) which is common 🤬
Ty for the exemplary alt text! 🫶
Wear an N95 today!!! 😷
Person in an N95 cuddling a sweater-wrapped goat at a sanctuary?! Oh my heart! 😍
And if you can't attend in person, @standupforscience.net is hosting the Official Accessible No Kings Day 3 Virtual Rally!
Sign up here: www.standupforscience.net/sufs-nk3
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A 3-year study published in Pediatrics examined newborns in Norway. It found a clear benefit for the baby when mom gets a COVID vaccination during pregnancy. n.pr/4uXOx6X
“Tuberculosis spreads through the air, & a cough isn’t required to infect someone else—regular breathing can do the trick.”
then why oh why are clean air practices—filtration, purification, n95s—never mentioned in this piece? burying one’s head in the sand doesn’t do nearly as much as a mask.
Capitulation is not progress ffs
Selective Mutism is a severe form of anxiety. It's a disability that takes tremendous courage to live with.
Enough with the ableism
💉 Where can you find accurate information on vaccines❓
✅ American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-...
✅ Medical societies: cmss.org/programs-and...
✅ CIDRAP for in-depth evidence review: vaxintegrity.cidrap.umn.edu/evidence-rev...
Jensen McRae's "Are You Happy Now" is a favorite album, so I'm thrilled to read this!! 😷🫶
Such a perfect color for spring!
