Nettle for the iron the week stole back out of you.
A fat handful, dried or fresh-with-gloves, steeped covered in just-boiled water ten minutes — until it goes deep green and tastes faintly of the forest floor. Deanntag is the old word: the sting that heals once you've met it with hot water and respect.
The season puts the iron back where the news took it out.
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The elder is throwing its creamy heads right now — you have about two weeks.

The old people kept it for fevers and the first scratch of a cold. Snip the heads late morning when the scent is up, shake the little life out of them, and steep. Then skip the fourteen-dollar bottle: a gallon of cordial is sugar, a few lemons, a spoon of citric acid, and a slow afternoon. Steep overnight, strain, sweeten, bottle.
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Biadh às an talamh — food from the earth — and a corporation cut out of the deal.

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Late light, a kettle, a body clenched since before the alarm. Here is the tending, plainly.
Box breath for the jaw: inhale four, hold four, exhale four, hold four — on the exhale, let your tongue drop and back teeth unclench. The jaw stores the words we swallowed.
Tulsi (holy basil) for a nervous system worn raw by vigilance — an adaptogen: it doesn't numb the alarm, it teaches the body to ring it softer. Marshmallow root, cold-steeped overnight, turns silky, soothing a throat scraped raw. Dandelion root, roasted bitter, for the liver folklore ties to anger — working overtime since January.
Softness is not surrender. Defiance wears an apron sometimes.
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"Your silence will not protect you." Audre Lorde wrote it in the terror of a body running out of time, and it outlived her because it was never only hers. Today's issue carries the fury — then carries you somewhere to set it down. Skullcap, steeped covered, for the wire your jaw has held all week. A jaw release that tells the nervous system the danger has passed. Ginger simmered gold, calendula for chapped hands. The mimosa blooms on schedule outside, pink silk against all of it.
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For the skin the week scraped raw.
Lus a' chrùin — the herb of the crown, gold as the sun it tracks. Calendula: a few dried petals steeped into oil, or the cooled tea pressed to chapped, wind-scraped skin. It soothes the surface where the body meets the world and takes the friction first.
Then ginger — a thumb of fresh root simmered ten minutes — for the gut that knots when the news breaks. Then lemon verbena before sleep, to loosen the jaw and quiet the loop the mind's been gripping like a railing.
Three herbs. Three doors back into a body that's been bracing all day. Gabh an t-slighe air ais — take the way back.
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