Christiana Hopkinson Christiana Hopkinson

The medicine of Desert Willow

Desert Willow has been growing around me my whole life, but I only started to notice them when they started to pop up around our current home. This winter I was outside, when a gentle breeze blew past and along with it, a sent that was so strong, fresh and uplifting. I thought someone was burning incense! This smell stirred a remembrance, a familiarity, something I knew but just couldn’t place at the moment.

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