smudge program: smudging is an agricultural and cleansing practice. The burning of frankincense in church is an example of smudging. The burning of sage is another well known smudging application that Indigenous people use as a cleansing practice on this continent. Other plants are burned on other continents. Smudging is also used in agriculture to calm honey bees and protect orchards from frost and/or insects.  
option3 shares smudging with people who work and live near the thin blue line between order (i.e. civil society) and chaos (i.e. the so-called 'state of nature'). option3 begins this program with police, paramedic, and fire professionals. As the founder of option3, my intention aims to honor these professionals, recognize the challenges they face in the United States, and offer smudging as a cleansing practice. I hope to extend this program to people facing with homelessness, mental illness, drug use, street life, reform, and recovery.  
To be clear, I am not an enrolled tribal member although I am half Mexican American, have lived on a Native American reservation, and have been exposed to traditional Lakota life since 2003.