Sambucus nigra Rambling

     Rambling with Sambucus nigra in bloom.

                        

 I was quite touched today and in the past months spending time with elderberry, Sambucus nigra, and her brothers and sisters in the Sambucus family. What struck me most was the vibrancy and diligence of its greening and blooming this spring. I invite you all to wander and ramble with these plants and get a picture of what is going on and how you can plug-in to your own ancestral resilience. These plants are doing their thing to the upmost and we must do likewise. Whenever one situation comes up then another situation comes up in relationship to that situation. The world around me is fully totally and completely alive. The world and the life force is happening in such a way that it addresses some of our needs. That some people are in distress at this time is of course a factor of many circles. 

     I can remember a time not so long ago when some events occurred, and then in the dominant culture cinema, news, television, the talking heads begin to spin a story. A couple buildings exploded in New York City somewhere in Washington DC, and in the middle of Pennsylvania plane crashed. As the talking head spin the story we needed to immediately mobilize an army Navy Marines airplanes and begin bombing and destroying the fabric of life for certain people living in the Middle East, in Iraq Afghanistan and neighboring countries. People are drastically tuned in to these talking heads with their messages and their agendas. So people are mobilizing now as the talking head spin another story. Doom and gloom and imminent death and of course, the solution is to go deeper into the Internet, go deeper into your locked air-conditioned boxes and isolate from the world. 

      Well as I said, the world itself is alive, in such a way that the plants also respond to situations if we can spend time with them authentically. Just as the dominant culture talking heads are spinning a great story with a fabulous agenda, exactly at the same time people are gathering together and coming together to explore the natural world the plants that grow in a sense, wild.           

     I surely know that every person that is living breathing with a beating heart, has an amazing resiliency and ancestral history that is linked more so with the plants, the seasons in the natural world than it Ever could be with the Talking Heads of dominant culture fame. Every person alive has a deep ancestral history  that resonates with the real work, that has endured famine, disease and every type of injury. We have endured every type of trauma, sexual trauma, physical trauma, emotional trauma, political and societal trauma, and our aliveness says that yes we have overcome. 

    Get to know Sambucus, not in a bottle, not in a pill, not in a shelf, but in the only knowing that has any relevance at this time, direct, face-to-face, intimate and personal Sambucus.