Shaddow Cross

Raven's Herbal Cabinet  At an Outpost or in one's home, one important thing to consider is where one's herbs are stored.  Besides needing glass jars, mortar and pestle, tins for salves, scales, and labels, one needs to have a place to keep them cool and dark when not in use.  This could be in one's "sick bay", healing room, or a corner of one's home, for general health and first aid needs. There are many options for this, from a shelf in one's kitchen to a full-on herbal cabinet, like our reader Raven Motley has  (pictured) , to a herbal nook like I have  (pictured) , to a full-on root cellar, where they are kept with stored root crops, and canned items for the winter, it takes a lot of planning to consider where they would best be kept. As one considers, take into account how many people there are in your family, what your herbal medicinal needs are, whether you use herbs alone, or you use some modern medicine as well, the storage area needs, and also...

"Death, the e'er present friend of all who are mortal. Ne'er know we when she shall come for us. Ne'er know we when she will come for our friends. So cover us now in the shround of sorrow. Till the mourning passes in the morrow." ~ Morria Giolla - 2005 Over the years there has been much written on this subject, mostly from the viewpoint of how to get over it and on with life. Yet, Death she never stops coming to visit us, when we least expect it. She never stops taking with her those we love. Why is it, if one grieves deeply in this present age, that they are looked at as morbid and not mentally sound? Let us now look at what Jesus tells us about mourning and death… Psalms 23:4   “Yea, though I walk through the  valley of the shadow of death , I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” Ecclesiastes 3:4   “ A time to weep,  and a time to laugh;  a time to mourn,  and a time to dance;” Ecclesiastes 7:1-4 ...