Tonight I was watching someone younger than me wax poetically on Instagram about herbs and how “this is how our grandmothers would have healed people/made medicine/worked with herbs, etc.”. It sounds nice, right? We all want to be connected to something larger than yourselves so it's a good story. I used to tell this story, too. However, at some point I realized that this wasn’t true. At least it wasn’t true for my family and I kinda wonder how true it is for some of these