Botanical Set — Reset Tumbled Stones in rounded grape-like crusts

in rounded grape-like crusts

water-clear and cool in the palm

it glows as light passes through

Spikenard - Nardostachys jatamansi

cut from the Urals and worked into bowls and columns like malachite

Botanical Set — Reset Tumbled Stones in rounded grape-like crustsReset white sage, blue sage, and palo santo: three smokes burned across cultures for thousands of years the sages to purify a space before something new, the palo santo to brighten it after. For the space between one chapter and the next. The two sages are sisters, chosen for contrast. White sage Salvia apiana, from Mexico carries the sharp, camphor like smoke of the oils in its leaf. Blue sage Salvia azurea was burned for the same purpose but reads