Renée I loved this ! I love your deep relationship with the very base lines of nature, the fact that you look deeper into the traditions of beliefs and question them wholly.
Indeed, I am envious (kindly so because we each have our different strengths and understandings) of your knowledge. I have played - with my lack of knowledge it can be cooled nothing else - with SCOBY fabrication for years. As a child I made ‘potions’ with petals and plants, roots and leaves, stealing from the my mothers always well stocked pantry any number of liquids to add to help preserve my always failing experiments. Mostly these sprouted mould and would be discarded, but some developed, a SCOBY. I had no idea what this was at such a tender age and considered it a failure also… years passed and I grew.
In my late twenties I was given a SCOBY for making my own kombucha and it wasn’t until I saw this soft living creature that I realised what I had created as a child. My experiments were revisited once again. With much success, Now I have several, one is many years old, I call her grandma - for surely it must be feminine to create so many babies? She was made from apple cider vinegar, it took many years for the vinegary taste to dissipate but she is now, in my humble and unlearned opinion acceptable in flavour.
I am intrigued by your use of honey, for it is true to say I have had no reasonable successes myself here and yet I am still convinced that this shouldn’t be so. I must and will begin my playful experiments again! You say you believe honey has a living memory that could be recalled… this, quite apart from everything, excites me immensely.
And, here, after reading almost all I find a name I know, not just a name but a truly admirable name, why am I not surprised that you have worked with Kimberly! Of course two brilliant ladies would find each other - my delight is doubled!
This is a fascinating essay Renee, I appreciate learning how you created CURA/live. Having tried, and loved, the serum it's amazing to know how it came about. I'll be sending an email to put in my order, thank you!
Pure brilliance, Renee! ♥️♥️♥️ I have so many things to say and not sure where to start. I'm positively giddy after reading this. I guess I'll start by saying that when I read this sentence: "That life is what we disaffectionately call germ, the common ancestor to every living expression" I was transported to some timeless place, some spaceless moment. All was silent and still as I watched my work with the ancestors unfold in every direction to include every speck of life. And then, like a rubber band, I bounced back to here and now, only now I could feel the ancestors swimming in my gut and blood vessels. Wow. Oh my gosh, and then the part where you talked about the microbes and yeast creating plant cells gave me chills. Indeed, in the beginning is relation. This is the how and the why of all. Also, I've recently met a woman on Substack whose writing continually prompts me to want to bring the two of you together. I'm going to paste a link to one of her recent posts in another comment. Finally, I so very much want to try curalive! I will email you for the deets. I'm so grateful to be in the world with you and to get to witness the way your mind works. 🤗🥰
Calling all humans who rejoice in the quiet, but powerful, language of earth and her many inhabitants. What a deeply inquisitive, relational process! I've tried this serum and am IN LOVE. It's alive with not only the intelligence of sympoiesis, but also the joyful wonder @reneeeliphd conjures in her living lab. It tickles me to no end that my own potent, wild-harvested calendula oil is now part of her magic.
Wild experimentation!!! It's provocative to say the least - in terms of how I can relate to my own 'motives' of food!
(In healing chronic illness - my in-gestion has been limited)
I've lately been able to include homemade Sourdough in my diet - and this relation with my starter has developed a deeper intimacy to food.
Yet, this here - from you - takes that inner/outer co-operation with my 'Vasilisa' (starters name) to another layer of intimacy.
Bless you
Renée I loved this ! I love your deep relationship with the very base lines of nature, the fact that you look deeper into the traditions of beliefs and question them wholly.
Indeed, I am envious (kindly so because we each have our different strengths and understandings) of your knowledge. I have played - with my lack of knowledge it can be cooled nothing else - with SCOBY fabrication for years. As a child I made ‘potions’ with petals and plants, roots and leaves, stealing from the my mothers always well stocked pantry any number of liquids to add to help preserve my always failing experiments. Mostly these sprouted mould and would be discarded, but some developed, a SCOBY. I had no idea what this was at such a tender age and considered it a failure also… years passed and I grew.
In my late twenties I was given a SCOBY for making my own kombucha and it wasn’t until I saw this soft living creature that I realised what I had created as a child. My experiments were revisited once again. With much success, Now I have several, one is many years old, I call her grandma - for surely it must be feminine to create so many babies? She was made from apple cider vinegar, it took many years for the vinegary taste to dissipate but she is now, in my humble and unlearned opinion acceptable in flavour.
I am intrigued by your use of honey, for it is true to say I have had no reasonable successes myself here and yet I am still convinced that this shouldn’t be so. I must and will begin my playful experiments again! You say you believe honey has a living memory that could be recalled… this, quite apart from everything, excites me immensely.
And, here, after reading almost all I find a name I know, not just a name but a truly admirable name, why am I not surprised that you have worked with Kimberly! Of course two brilliant ladies would find each other - my delight is doubled!
With love Renée- thank you xx
This is a fascinating essay Renee, I appreciate learning how you created CURA/live. Having tried, and loved, the serum it's amazing to know how it came about. I'll be sending an email to put in my order, thank you!
Pure brilliance, Renee! ♥️♥️♥️ I have so many things to say and not sure where to start. I'm positively giddy after reading this. I guess I'll start by saying that when I read this sentence: "That life is what we disaffectionately call germ, the common ancestor to every living expression" I was transported to some timeless place, some spaceless moment. All was silent and still as I watched my work with the ancestors unfold in every direction to include every speck of life. And then, like a rubber band, I bounced back to here and now, only now I could feel the ancestors swimming in my gut and blood vessels. Wow. Oh my gosh, and then the part where you talked about the microbes and yeast creating plant cells gave me chills. Indeed, in the beginning is relation. This is the how and the why of all. Also, I've recently met a woman on Substack whose writing continually prompts me to want to bring the two of you together. I'm going to paste a link to one of her recent posts in another comment. Finally, I so very much want to try curalive! I will email you for the deets. I'm so grateful to be in the world with you and to get to witness the way your mind works. 🤗🥰
Wow! I'm going to take a little more interest and respect my scoby from now on!
Calling all humans who rejoice in the quiet, but powerful, language of earth and her many inhabitants. What a deeply inquisitive, relational process! I've tried this serum and am IN LOVE. It's alive with not only the intelligence of sympoiesis, but also the joyful wonder @reneeeliphd conjures in her living lab. It tickles me to no end that my own potent, wild-harvested calendula oil is now part of her magic.
the Doctrine of Signatures:
“There is no real manifestation of life . . . that does not show us, in a rudimentary or latent state, the characters of the other manifestations.“
I love this!!!......
"Over these years, I have come to see
skin not so much as an outer shell prone
to bumps and blemishes, rashes and
lesions, but as a conversation between
self and world, world and self. And I have
come to understand that those uncomely
expressions are a hunger for nourishing
relation more so than an assault by the
elements and that the more we carry
within us the message of assault, the
more the body will express this message."