Organic Wellness along the Pacific Northwest of Vancouver Island

09/07/2026

09/05/2026

The garden era is the inception of this sister page. It reflected a time out to thoroughly investigate the Greater Victoria options for interacting with native and available plants through a life style of daily living and leading by example. ,

This garden diagram is an interpretation of my garden design that was an evolution of earlier landscape designs that supported, 'living by example,' with home office. It was a working garden for the intention of connecting with nature with those who had spent their lives with an outward focus on cognitive conceptual strategies that were disconnected from the authentic sources for human health and wellbeing, and flourishing. Along the bottom the symbols demonstrate all the ways I created opportunities to encourage students to reflect on, by leading from example. The only thing missing are three chickens and the daily infused water options using leaves, flowers and roots. , , , , Learning Center for Inside Awareness
Visual interpretation developed in collaboration with ChatGPT (OpenAI), translating the author's conceptual description of somatic sensation, cognitive observation, interpretation, reaction, and embodied patterning into visual form.

09/05/2026

The labyrinth design previously posted I suspect evolved from this earlier design that I created as a healing garden for myself a decade earlier before creating the walking path design.

09/05/2026

I would like to share this gardening landscape design. The intention for it's design is in the post below it at a sister page to this one. The lot it was being designed for was a large lot. This design can be reduced in size to fit smaller properties. This was a private residential property (my own). I hope you will read the poster descriptions to connect to the intention of it the different parts of it. ,

Here is a Labyrinth Pattern I designed about 15 years ago. The intention was to design it for limited mobility access where the walker may become a scooter. The seed pattern for the labyrinth is a cross sections to reflect the cardinal directions which is duplicated in the Medicine Wheel and other traditions throughout history. The objective was to provide seating at each cardinal direction once entering from the East.
This design was also my interpretation of honoring an earlier career of the person it was being designed for who studied the middens archaeology of the far north of B.C. and into Alaska. It was a tribute to a 'mentor.' One of my mentors. I call it Dee's Labyrinth. What I love about the design is that it can be adjusted for smaller spaces by taking out middle pathways. ,
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Visual interpretation developed in collaboration with ChatGPT (OpenAI), translating the author's conceptual description of somatic sensation, cognitive observation, interpretation, reaction, and embodied patterning into visual form.

08/17/2026

I took a picture of these orchids and then cut and past them into an email to someone who received one in an arrangement for a gift. Someone who supports them, took them out to explore orchid pots and growing medium as their orchid had been thrown together with other plants with different needs. Orchids like bark and not soil. This one was compromised for appearance and quick sell. I wanted to give a visual of how their explorations and conclusions were correct through outcome experience. Why? Someone else came along and dismissed the effort of discovery, time and investment in obtaining the right materials. Someone who had been a gardener in the past and used it as a label for status and higher authority. I stuck my finger in the heavy enclosed pot without a exit hole leaving no way to let excess water out that held five or six plants from different parts of the world. The soil was in standing water. The only way to absorb it was through the roots. The orchid roots would rot. It needed to get out of this pot arrangement to survive. This was the same conclusion the person investigating above came to, yet was vetoed by the person claiming to know, and who seemingly held the power. I was thanked for the pictures I sent to demonstrate the pots and roots, and was congratulated for them. After a minute I responded. I wanted to share it here:
I was surprised you congratulated me. It took a minute to connect to the celebration. I am glad you enjoyed the pictures of them. I have never viewed it from that perspective as I interact with them in the same way as with people except without a focus on belief systems, interpretations, opinions, social conditioning, etc. Instead it's through purpose, meaning and intention. I find meaning in the interactive connection with the orchids through a quality of
appreciation I have for them. If I engage with them meeting their needs they flourish and if I don't they diminish. I would never call myself a gardener with the expectation of it being a label for status and recognition. I don't have a need for that. I have an appreciation instead with a will to interact with them as it gives me pleasure. I pay attention to how they respond and flourish.
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08/14/2026

Great Summer pickin's today. Loved it. ,

07/22/2026

I ran into a featured table at the market today. I was so excited to see how the herbs and spices I began growing for their health profile being used in the fermenting probiotics. Wow! I was given a sample of the fermented turmeric. Notes in pic descriptions. I extremely pleased and happy this is something someone began growing, processing and marketing. I 100 percent given it 10 fingers and toes up. , ,

07/20/2026

Alfalfa (Medicago sativa)
The whole plant can be used, and an infusion of leaves with mint is an excellent nutritious tea, rich in easily assimilated vitamins, minerals and trace elements, including protein, calcium and iron. Young leaves and sprouts are added to sandwiches and salads. Useful as a stimulating, tonic herb, it is contraindicated in autoimmune conditions., , ,

07/20/2026

Little reel on alfalfa and one on licorice in pots, exploring plant medicinal and nutrition, ,

07/07/2026

After posting about creating an Oregon Grape Root tincture, I parked by bushes in full berry in a community parking lot. , , , ,