Food as Medicine

Celery is an integral ingredient in numerous cuisines. The seeds, stalks and leaves are used in various preparations. Health uses and benefits include blood purification, detoxification, regulating bowel movements, gout, rheumatism, bronchitis, asthma, colic laxative, urinary tract infections, nerve calming as well as renewing joints, arteries, and veins.

Source: American Botanical Council; Photo: etsy

Herbal Healing

 

As we enter the possibility of cold and flu season, consider Pine oil and other pine products to improve blood circulation, blood pressure, faster healing, approved for treating coughs, bronchitis, respiratory infection, muscle soreness, arthritis, neuralgia, and break up mucus. Source: American Botanical Council

Comfort and Joy

Our hearts are so full after the annual journey to the sacred grounds of our ancestors. This is a life-affirming, energy-elevating, soul-liberating safe space.  The power that emanates from this soil is tangible.  We deeply bow to the wisdom of generations before us who knew we would need this in our lives.

Thankful + Grateful

Grateful for the numerous people and businesses that choose to follow our Facebook page over the last few months: 

Chasidy Robinson + Atlanta Lions Club + John Wesley Scales + Shailu Reddy + Diane Rice Williams + Jeffrey Moore + DJ Beauty and the Beats + Vita Earl Gardner + Orange Green Red and Blue Whilom + Richard Green + Terri Bentley + Judy Jones + Dwight Hughes + Carla Mills + Wanda Waters + Eddie Miller + Daryl Carter + Daryl Donald + Sheila Peters + Diantha McLeod + Erin Clements + Sheila Cook Jones + WA Tolbert + Sandis Cooper + Vernon Dixon + Hollie Stephenson + Bryan Varo + Patrick Valentine + John Evans + Aleccis Coleman + Henry Belin III + Dianne Sawl + Kim Syms + Anton Burrell + Avis Easley + Jason Harter + Catricia Baxter + Dorothy Cobbett + Tamela Sain + Ebony Carney + Angelina Hesseltine + Frankie Lee and Inferno + Leah Young + Maximus MH + 100 Black Men of Dekalb + The Payroll Company + Total Dominion Male + The Paragon Group + Isari Events + Evelyn Menzies + Rudy Dirl + Shey Tripathi + Ken Taylor + Daryl Williams Dotson + Rey Cojaque Palmares Gomez + Cleatrice McTorry and more to come...

In the Glow of Affection

I am basking in the delicious glow of this thing called life. I joined my loved ones to shower our last surviving Uncle with an afternoon of attention and affection. Made a visit to the arts festival to lay hands on my gifted niece and secured her evil eye bracelet for divine protection. I pressed my way to the medical center to see another precious niece to encourage her sweet soul. I am closing out the month with some major kudos on my latest project catapulting me to new heights in my career...mmmm...eyes closed. heart tap. deep breathing

Incubator of Greatness

From less than humble beginnings, sometimes greatness can breakthrough and can come forth.  I am on the road again this time visiting the home of the Jackson Five in Gary, Indiana.  It sits unassumingly in a mixed income urban neighborhood that I’m sure was a bustling cradle of comfort for people of color at its height.  The structure is less than 1000 square feet and held 11 people.  This is the incubator that birthed the creative juggernauts that made women and men scream in their presence.

 

Hypertension + African Americans