We’ve all heard this plea escape a hopeful child’s lips, maybe in the face of a kitten in a box at a storefront, or a salamander they find digging elbow deep in the muddy banks fo a stream.  Children never lose touch with their deepest desires and dreams, most don’t anyway.  When we boil it all down, we all want to keep our hope, joy, beauty and connection alive, and that is what the animal represents to the child in the moment.  The pure, unbounded, unconditional love all animals offer us, speaks oodles about their lack of human constructs and lack of attachment to drama and pain.  I just love the advice of Wayne Dyer, when he said our only job is to just be a good mammal!  Mammals/animals are perennially present to what is actually in front of them.  We miss so much living and loving when we make up millions of stories and allow missed perceptions to lead us.  We must all learn to feed what we want to keep in life, for we remember that declaration from our parents, when we asked such a question, and their oh so sober response was:  “Well, you’ll have to feed it!”  

Let’s feed that sense of being present to the joy and divinity we are.  Let’s feed the goodness that presents to us most days, and often most of the day.  What we feed grows.  Natives to the Americas have a belief that in any moment we can feed the White Wolf or the Black Wolf.  Both are to be honored.  Both are revered as teachers.  I for one, want that White Wolf to thrive and grow, for that is when I put myself (and only I have the authority and responsibility to do so) where it feels good in life.  

St. John’s Wort will let us feed this thing we all deeply desire to keep.  St. John, the patron saint of the sick, reminds us that we are perfectly healthy and vital, if we just shift our view and receive what is actually our truth.  As we look to celebrate his feast day in March, I say let us feast on the good in life.  The good all around us, and should we get distracted or forget or lose our way, St. John’s Wort essential oil is there to remind us.  Any fighting depression (which is really just an inability to see their loving connection to all things in all moments) herald this plant as a savior.  That’s worth saving!