I listened to Mother Nature’s voice.
Travel.
And save the planet.
Growing up in Jamaica’s countryside, whenever we were ill with a fever, there was no Calpol.
Instead, my dad, the family herbalist, would swing into action and go about the yard picking various herbs; fever grass, cerasee and such, to make bush tea.
Then he would add one final ingredient from his farm: lots and lots of Ganja, which he grew but never smoked.
Sometimes we would come home from school to find a whole load of Ganja drying on the kitchen’s zinc roof, which the Rastafarians living in the community would often stop by to exchange for yams or other vegetables from their fields.
With one of us ill in bed, sweating like crazy, Dad would boil the herbs and make a bath for us to soak in. We were also given the concoction as a tea to drink.
The next day, we were up and about bright as can be, hungry for soup, ready to go play.
We were lucky, and I have always thought that one day I would ask my dad for his secret recipe, because our family's life medicine was handed down from generation to generation, and it worked.
Once a year, from an early age, my dad would also take me to the local herbalist, Mother Nature, with the locked hair and flowery garden, for her to observe me.
Mother would give me Ganja tea to drink while I sat in a warm herbal bath, in the sun, under the pink bougainvillea, staring into space.
I listened to Mother Nature’s voice as she told me my futures.
“Call her, Kenisha.”
Best wishes,
Sherry Collins, I am her.
Jamaican Freedom Fighter, for the people.
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