from Aumdoc’s Holistic Healing archive (circa 2003) Everyone would agree how important our breath is. It is our life source. With every inspiration (in breath) we feed our physical selves down to every cell, bringing in life giving oxygen. This oxygen is given to us freely by every green plant on the planet! It is…
from Aumdoc’s Holistic Healing Archive (circa 2001) I’d like to tell you a story about one of my personal experiences with the power of ‘Newborn Medicine’. The 12 years I practiced medicine out of my office, Lotus Obstetrics & Gynecology, in Lilburn, GA (1989 – 2001) was certainly a milestone in my life. Ten of…
from Aumdoc’s Holistic Healing Archive (circa 2003) Developing a healthy relationship with therapeutic caregivers brings good things into your life. Finding care that suits you, and your resources, is not always an easy task. Once accomplished, the benefits are many. I encourage people to develop multiple layers of healing support. As a holistic physician, I like to expand…
I like working with inlay because I want my craft-work to be beautiful to the eye. This seems to happen most easily (for rattles) when I ‘listen’ to the wood. This means paying attention to the process. Attention to the type of wood I am working. Each type of wood has different characteristics to exploit.…
On some of my smaller rattles you will see a wrist strap. These are usually made of leather and hemp cord braided together in various colors and combinations. I also have a waxed cotton cord I like. They end up being thicker or thinner depending on the combination (3 leather cords braided is thicker then…
Here I will spin a totally true little tale about Black Rock City, Synchronicity and Sacred Reciprocity. I am very fortunate to be so close to my two brothers. Steven (a.k.a. Mr N) is the oldest by 4 years, I am the middle child (both my parents were middle children) and Chip is the youngest…
Working with Cedar is, for me, a real joy. I like the tree, and the wood. I like finding dead and dry branches, 1-2 inches in diameter that which are mostly red (mature) wood. That branch will come from a fully mature big Cedar tree. Off the lower portion of the trunk will be a…
I’m fortunate to live in a temperate rain forest in north Georgia where Honeysuckle is often growing along streams. They like their roots in shade. I’m looking for wild vines that have grown undisturbed for a number of years. I need vine that is 1-2 inches in diameter. Often I am harvesting the base of…
The Sassafras tree is one of my very favorites. We have them all around us in the north Georgia mountains. They have been a very important tree in North America forever. Long history of native use and the first major export by the European invaders. This sun loving beautiful tree blazes in the fall and…
Names are kind of funny labels we carry through life. It seems that the first ones we get tend to last the longest. The little baby boy ends up with a very formal name like Richard Jay Clofine. Yet the only time I ever got called Richard was when my mother, Jolyn, was angry at…
