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If Only A Rose Can Speak

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If Only A Rose Can Speak If Only a Rose Could Speak Send Love, Send Feelings Written by Charlie Farricielli   The Rose.  Nature’s silent messengers of God!      Just last night I was thinking of ways for individuals to enhance the planet with additional sources of abundant love. Jenny Marie and I continue to learn numerous life secrets and countless blessed lessons concerning love and consecrated relationships. I make sure that Jenny has at least one fresh rose displayed for every special moment of our privileged lives. As I have written before in my blogs, roses are Gods silent messenger of love and feelings. Wow, If only roses could speak I thought! They would reveal to the recipient loving whispers of appreciation, gratefulness and love. They would speak the private expressions from our soul.     Then I realized roses do speak!   They speak unvoiced!  In forms of feelings and soundless emotions!  They portray visually and vividly our passionate wordless sentiments of “Love

A Brief History of Roses

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“It was roses , roses all the way” By- Robert Browning What’s in a name? “That which we call a rose; by any other name would smell as sweet?” - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 scene 2 Roses have a long and colorful history. According to fossil evidence, the rose is 35 million years old. Today, there are over 30,000 varieties of roses and it has the most complicated family tree of any known flower species. The cultivation of roses most likely began in Asia around 5000 years ago. They have been part of the human experience ever since and mentions of the flower are woven into a great many tales from the ancient world. And there are so many beautiful stories that include roses through out the ages that we all can recognize. Greek mythology tells us that it was Aphrodite who gave the rose its name, but it was the goddess of flowers, Chloris, who created it. One day while Chloris was cleaning in the forest she found the lifeless body of a beautiful nymph. To right this w

Medicinal Properties of “The Rose”

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Medicinal and Magical Properties of “The Rose” Written and Edited By Charlie Farricielli    Wild roses of many species (Oginiminaga wunj rose berries, in Ojibwe) are abundant on the western prairies, especially when water is anywhere nearby. They like sun. The ones I’ve seen in North and South Dakota all have pinkish blossoms, like this drawing, but I’ve heard there ar white, yellowish, and pale reddish-brown ones also. These roses, blossoming on thorny briar tangles, flower through June and begin to set their haws, hips or berries, which are ripe by early fall. Rose hips have been an important food for all Native tribes where any kind of roses can be found. They are extremely high in vitamin C, much more so than oranges, for example. Dried, they keep well, and will always be available in winter. Most health food co-ops sell them (for $25/lb or so, another economic opportunity for tribal youth in late summers). Dried rose hips need to be boiled about 10 minutes to make a tea of them