Get to Know Me - Forever Unfolding
Forever unfolding (I hope)
If you’d like to begin to get to know me, you I encourage you to visit my website, Leslie-Alexander.net. Hopefully, you’ll find several pages to be of interest. My About and Herbalist pages talk generally about my path; my Author page offers a bit more history about me; my Events page gives a slim idea of where I am and what I’m teaching. These are great places to start.
Like any herbal formula, I am more than the sum of the parts. I am not a “plant lover”, or a “cyanotype printer”, or a “dog enthusiast” or an “educator”. I am, instead, more. I am me. I am an unfolding dynamic synergistic individual. With many moving parts. I shy away from labels and too writing about myself. And that’s the rub. I’d like you to get to know me, laugh with me, explore ideas … and more. So, I’ll begin – sharing little by little.
Heroines? Barbara McClintock and RBG (Ruth Bader Ginsburg). Probably too, my mom.
You may want to check out, “A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock” by Evelyn Fox Keller and published in 1983 by W. H. Freeman and Company.
RBG? I can suggest two films as a place to start to discover more about this truly remarkable woman, On the Basis of Sex and RBG. Each tells her story, each from a different perspective.
And my mum? Carol Alexander. I can’t begin to share her essences, wisdom or accomplishments. For more, you’ll need to get to know me.
Favorite color? #004774 (simplest of all).
For a very different read, check out, Werner’s Nomenclature of Colors, Adapted to Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Minerology, Anatomy and the Arts by P Syme which was published in 1821 by William Blackwood of Edinburgh Scotland. This book was said to be used by Darwin during his HMS Beagle voyage as her related colors in nature.
While the book does not use Hex color codes, where the first two letters/numbers refer to red, the next two refer to green, and the last two to blue, it is truly delightful. For example, Prussian Blue 25 (p33) is described under the heading Animal as, the beauty spot on the wing of a mallard drake, under Vegetable as, “the stamina of bluish purple anemone” and under Mineral as, “blue copper ore”.
