What’s in your backyard? Do you know who you share a home with? Birds, spiders, snakes, squirrels, and toads maybe? And if so what kind? What about the trees, flowers, grasses, and weeds? All of these things share Mother Earth (known as Pachamama in Quechua) with us. They are our beautiful neighbors and have spirits and amazing stories to tell just like us. In shamanism, the properties of things found in the natural world are referred to as medicine. For example, the cardinal