What she says in the hollow between the words, in the valleys where water flows is that when you become a Giver of Life, you have been remembered by a forgotten sister. She comes visiting…

What is a midwife without burn out, without fear, without poverty, uncontrollable? What is a woman inviolable?

This work is about fertility, about reproductive liberty. This work is about reckoning with history, about restoration and reclamation of dignity, pleasure and power for women on the whole continuum of our lives as they are shaped by our generative capacities.

How do we know what is physiological? We pay attention. We observe without interference.

From my long experience relating to, befriending and receiving precious, life changing support from plants, I can’t imagine doing anything so brave, unpredictable and wild as giving birth without plants by my side.

The past month has me contemplating endings, deaths and transformations. I am in my own pre-conception journey and approaching marriage. The overwhelming theme as this this moment, contrary to my jubilant expectations, is Death.