Bee Balm
The Bee Balm is Rioting
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Sheri Barkers considers how energy work and gardening can combine to create change.
Featured
Column: The Coming Spring
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“The last days of winter are unfolding as they should, with snow, ice, and cold temperatures starting to become balanced by days of warmer weather and increasing daylight. Sensing the nearness of spring, part of me wants to put on my fastest sneakers and gleefully run down the path to greet her. But the wheel turns as it turns, and I know I cannot hurry the seasons.”
ancestors
Column: Elemental Fire
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Sheri Barker continues her exploration of the classical elements in this column about the power of fire.
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Column: Elemental Air
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I looked around, trying to find the chimes, and saw a woman walking towards me from the east. Tall and graceful, she carried a book in the bend of her arm. She wore a long, flowing gown of pale green, pale yellow, and white. The chiming grew louder as she drew near, but the sound remained pleasing.
As she passed by, I asked, “Do you hear that sound?”
She laughed in a way that echoed the chimes and answered, “The question is: do you?”
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Column: Elemental Earth
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“Other elemental energies sometimes communicate with me using words, but earth most often sends images.”