Had an impulse to organize my herb and tea cabinet today, which was overflowing and well-intentioned but badly neglected.

Coincidentally, I’m ready to hang the herb and tea cabinets I found used at the Habitat for Humanity store on walls in the utility building/greenhouse that came with this house I bought five years ago.

As I weed out this cabinet, I realize I’m thrilled to have the beginnings of an herb store in there soon – closing in on the realization of my years’ long vision of a food growing and processing operation here. A casual one, functional, not too demanding.

At my crowded herb cabinet in the house, I went through everything, removed duplicates and anything I wasn’t sure what it was (so certain was I at the time that I wouldn’t forget and that I would soon get a label on it, but years went by), next to carry them all into the greenhouse to put in those cabinets soon.

Also exciting, I can begin to use my extensive collection of saved jars of every size and type! And put pretty labels on them!

Meantime, what I have left in here at home, are arranged in categories of sleep/rest, daytime, daily health, and medicine.

Suddenly I realized the little nudges I was making to various jars to make their arrangement just a little bit prettier reminded me of a book I had read long ago about making alters throughout one’s house. And I realized that was what I was doing – creating a new altar to my health and healing.