March 11, 2020
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, “you owe me.”
Look what happens with a love like that, it lights the whole sky.
January 28, 2020
when i'm deep in my diaspora feels, having phantom daydreams of what my life could have been like but then realize my soul has been in those wildflowers fields all along.
#onbrand #canttakethepersianoutofthisbitch
January 21, 2020
Woke Without the Work is an online class for Non-BIPOC Herbalists, who are seeking to move beyond optical support of our communities, towards active, tangible and embodied practices of equity. An equity that is true, healthy and vibrant, and not just a disguise of woke...
January 3, 2020
As we TLC creep into January, we’ve been reflecting deep upon all that is living and emerging within us. This year has been the baby bitch slap we didn’t know we needed. So often we can get into the spiral of ‘do the work, be the work, carry the work’, without ever sto...
December 24, 2019
as i type this, the unmistakable aroma of fesenjoon, tachin, and chicken koobideh rise from the kitchen. the sofreh (altar) is adorned with pomegranates, persimmon, watermelon, dried fruits & nuts, candles, and the sacred books of hafiz.
tonight we will dance with the n...
November 27, 2019
as we move with intention into the new moon, we are still living so deeply within the brilliance and inspiration from our time at the 2019 biodynamic conference this past weekend! we were lifted, affirmed, inspired, and held up by the power and grace of our bipoc famil...
November 18, 2019
October 30, 2019
to be real i daydream about breaking up with herbalism often. don't get it twisted, my relationship to the plants and service/care are lifelong, i could really just do without the commodifying/branding/capitalizing that is now synonymous with herbalism.
when i daydream...
October 17, 2019
Saffron by Amir Safi
My mother picks up the pestle and mortar and does to saffron what the clerics have done to her country/ pours in steaming water till the liquid in the bowl becomes the Caspian swallowing the sun/ it smells like a home I have not returned to in 10 ye...
October 10, 2019
Still very much living within the sweetness of this group, who came together to take part in Wild Gather's program, Seeds of Herbalism 2019. I feel deeply grateful to my teaching partner and dear friend, Lauren, for constantly reaffirming how positive and uplifting it...