I Just Really Like the Smell of Libraries🍁

Author: Morgan Talty Title: Night of the Living Rez Narrator: Darrell Dennis Publication Info: Recorded Books, Inc., 2022 Summary/Review: In this collection of a dozen interconnected short stories, a protagonists named David (nicknamed Dee) narrates his life living in a Penobscot Nation community in Maine.  Some of the stories are told from his point of view as a child and others as an adult but…

Peony - 'Triomphe de Harlem' (1858-1862).

Taken from 'Annales d'horticulture et de botanique' by Philipp Franz von Siebold, W. H. Vriese.

Pyblished by A.W. Sythoff.

"this herb is supports menstrual health!" Cool. what does it DO? Like physically, what? Be specific.

How do your bodily organs function? Could you identify the individual organs? Can you explain how they work? If that organ is ill or not functioning correctly, do you know exactly what's going wrong and what needs to happen to fix it?

What component of that plant is affecting the body and how? Does your body need extra support in that way? How do you know? What other effects can this plant have on other parts of the body? Will it have chemical responses to other medications, herbs, or foods you are putting in your body?

Some minerals can start sweating sulfuric acid in high humidity, did you know that? Other rocks and crystals can contain toxic elements and heavy metals like mercury that can poison you. Sometimes they will straightup just dissolve in water — that doesn't mean they disappear, that means the water is contaminated with whatever elements and chemicals were in that stone, and it is probably not safe to drink.

Look, I'm all for herbal medicine. Crystals and stones can have really interesting uses for magic. But you can't just start smoking random plants or throwing things in a tea based on correspondence lists, or you're going to poison yourself or your loved ones.