I don’t know about you but I feel like this has been the longest Spring I’ve ever encountered. It’s been rainy and mildly cool days and nights. I was looking for grounding on a particular misty day and decided to forage some newly bloomed white clover buds. I grabbed a basket and headed out to the backyard under my maple for cover and started my tedious task of picking.
I picked for an hour or so and got a lot of clover flowers. I decided to dry them and create a nice, refreshing glass of tea…in a few days. LOL!
Update: I never finished my post!
White Clover tea is delicous and tastes like honey and sweet flowers. I highly suggest it cold with no extra sweetener. I hope you remember to find some the next time you’re enjoying Spring in nature. Just make sure it’s away from car exhaust and animal or people pee.
Top: The clovers are washed, spin dried, and placed on a clean towel to dry a few days. Bottom: My dried clovers and tea💖 This is the most refreshing non caffinated tea. Oh yeah! There’s also added medicinal benefits😃
I love weekends! I feel that the more self-centered I am, self-focused, the most healing happens. I am literally still vibrating over my beautiful weekend. I had a great Saturday morning at the farmers market and I’m so grateful the rain held off. Since there’s been so much rain lately in my area, I had been hiding inside but during a particular rainstorm last week, I was driving and pondering about how to enjoy my new gloomy, wet environment and at that moment at the stop sign I saw 2 girls kicking at the street rivers gliding towards the storm drains and they started dancing. Wow! I’m going to learn how to dance in the rain again!
Squishy muddy clovers.
I love how situations play out right in front of you and it’s only if you’re paying attention and asking the right questions that you get your answers in real life. Seek and you will find…. literal chills. So, you see two kids dancing in the rain. What do you think? I guess it depends on what situation you came from. Did you just hang out with a friend you haven’t talked to in a while, and it made you think of your childhood memories? Did you just get in an argument with your family, and you don’t even notice the kids dancing and splashing?
My dogs didn’t even notice this frog, so it lived.
I find myself so curious into this new ability to enjoy myself in any weather. I can weather any storm. So, on Sunday I craved to dig in the dirt but guess what…yup, rain. LOL! It was a mist, so I grabbed my basket and decided to take cover under my maple tree and pick white clover flowers. This was so rewarding in the sense of me literally grounding my whole body to the earth but knowing I am collecting medicine to keep me sane through this wet Spring and into the hot summer days.
My new grounding therapy.
I also did get a chance to play in the garden and pull weeds and plant my herbs and tomato plants. I cannot wait to harvest my summer tomatoes. Right now, my kale and lettuce are great to harvest, and we’ve been enjoying all the salads. I also planted daikon, turnips, and radishes. Yum! I decided to take all the daikon, turnip and radish greens and cooked them down with bacon, onions, and garlic with a splash of cream and boy were they delicious!
My Spring garden treasures.
My yoga practice is going to be more consistent because I rejoined my favorite calorie torcher hot yoga class. I am ecstatic because it starts this morning and I’m probably going to die and take forever to come back to my body. Why would I do this to myself, you ask? Well, I enjoy the heat and how limber I become. I enjoy the sweat and I know it’s clearing out toxins and it seriously glows up my skin. We hold our poses so long our minds are telling us to get out of the pose, but we focus on breathing and keeping our Drishti focused. I love this class!
I hope you had good medicine from your weekend healing. Or maybe you work weekends, but I really hope you find the messages hiding in everyday life. I found that learning to cope with uncontrolled circumstances and finding a way to be ok with things I cannot change to be powerful. I do not like the rain only because it hinders me from the sun and being able to dig, take a walk with the dogs. I am learning to find ways to enjoy the rain and be in it, so far, my list consists of picking white clovers and dancing 🙂
Self-Diagnosed Yogi 