Learning as the pursuit of inquiry
As I thought about the request to identify something I had recently learned on my own, my mind starting sorting - through this time of transition that began in late 2016 and carried through all of 2017, so that I'm now looking at life through very different eyes, in an environment that has changed in ways I never could have imagined. The sorting led me not to something from that heaped basket of life-changing learning, but to a very recent decision that could easily go unnoticed as learning. I've long loved gardening, with a real affinity for the perennials and herbs that feed pollinators, many that make for good foraging and gentle healing for all sorts of unease. My appreciation of herbs for healing goes almost as far back as my love of digging in spring soil, but I've almost always relied on others to create the recipes or depended on ones ready-made. I decided it was time for me to make my own simple herbal tinctures, the most basic of uses for herbs easily obtai...
