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My dear friend and herbal colleague Lisa Scott has hard-earned wisdom and lots of practical advice for women experiencing the scalding pain and too-many-other-issues-to count from central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia – CCCA. Black women are most affected by this condition - and we all know the barriers that Black women face receiving medical access and attentive care.

Please share this post and with the people in your life who need it, and can follow her story and travel along - more resouced and less isolated.

The case for shaving my head...when the time comes Since I was diagnosed with central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia – CCCA – I've vacillated between fighting for my hair and letting it all go. My highest self could care less about hair, but my ego is fully invested.

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A great opportunity to hear from the kids who know they are tasked with the major work of galvanizing the change and cleaning up after us. Dan Vie

Health in the Climate Crisis Conference – North Sound Accountable Community of Health Health in the Climate Crisis: Integrative Approaches for Individuals and Communities Confluence: A meeting of the Taylor and Middle Fork Snoqualmie rivers. Register here! Adverse health impacts of the climate crisis have already emerged and will continue to increase in frequency and severity. These....

Looking at life through the Magicada's 17-year cycle as we emerge from the the dark of pandemic isolation.

Due to emerge: cicadas and me - A Life of Practice As I prepare to emerge from 14 months of Pandemic isolation, the 17-year cicadas are about to end their long sleep.

Due to emerge: cicadas and me - A Life of Practice As I prepare to emerge from 14 months of Pandemic isolation, the 17-year cicadas are about to end their long sleep.

Looking at life through the Magicada's 17-year cycle at a time of emergence from the the dark.

Due to emerge: cicadas and me - A Life of Practice As I prepare to emerge from 14 months of Pandemic isolation, the 17-year cicadas are about to end their long sleep.

Passover in the wake of plague: 2021 - A Life of Practice We tell and relive the grand sweep of the Exodus in a Covid-19 plague-ridden time

Reflections on the eve of Passover - and for those who observe, may it be a sweet one. It appears, once again, that we are the Elijah we have been waiting for.

Passover in the wake of plague: 2021 - A Life of Practice We tell and relive the grand sweep of the Exodus in a Covid-19 plague-ridden time

Life under Covid. Again. Still. Vaccination dangled (just?) out of reach.

Vaccination Envy: Won't Anyone Card Me? - A Life of Practice After many adjustments to Pandemic life 11months ago, the bits of “freedom" that Moderna promises provokes many feelings, including vaccination envy.

Reflections on when injustices remain unaddressed while the clock never runs out.

Title On Black Bodies in A Groundhog Year Title - A Life of Practice Black History Month in a Groundhog Year: I reflect on centuries of Black and Brown peoples' survival of bone-crunching, spirit-defying control.