I wonder how many champions of love have known love only as a giver? Maybe that is why they promoted it so heavily? But love that goes only one way – out – is incomplete and leaves a person restless. The need to fix a situation to self-soothe and to overcompensate for a lack ofContinue reading “Redamancy”
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Be A Trendsetter. Love Your Body.
Words found on social media. A wisdom like that when applied beyond the verbal, and verbal-therapeutic, has the power to transform you and your relationship with the earth. 3 March 2013
Living Well
The secret to living well is – to welcome all good things, – to overcome all fear of them, – to learn how to put an end to disappointments (knowing that they happen and having a way to handle them), and – to invest in the future – again and again -, even when nooneContinue reading “Living Well”
With Enough Information And Joy And Success
“We are literally in the last century of this epic struggle between violence + patriarchy and love + nonviolence + the feminine.” Vandana Shiva, at the Permaculture Convergence in Dec 2017 Thanks to my female ancestors and my peers who cultivated the best, tended to the best, and continued the best, despite the chaos andContinue reading “With Enough Information And Joy And Success”
The Feminine In The Past And In The Now
The feminine teaches us how to nurture life and non-cooperation with evil. I learned that from the elders who were women when I was a child. Chances are, so have you. In this time, there is plenty of effort to turn non-cooperation with evil into something only subcultures could be interested in and and toContinue reading “The Feminine In The Past And In The Now”
A Day For Women
Women have been given the power to nurture life and all that is sacred and the insight of when to practice noncooperation with evil intents and ill actions. Use both powers. Happy Women’s Day. Much appreciation to the feminine that is rising in our world and making the earth a healthier, wiser, more enchanting placeContinue reading “A Day For Women”
A Good Day To All Daughters, Sisters And Mothers.
Happy Women’s Day. I thank all women and men who work for a juster world where the feminine can express itself. I look forward to the end of abuse against women and girls, the end of genital mutilation, the end of human trafficking, and to the beginning of cooperation in the human family. I lookContinue reading “A Good Day To All Daughters, Sisters And Mothers.”
I’m So Glad That I’m A Woman.
“We’re the lifeline of mankind, and now is the time for me.” Love Unlimited The iconic song of gratitude still says so much. I often hoped that our contemporary musicians would write songs of this caliber, and I haven’t given up. The good ones do, but they are too few. (And they are too unknownContinue reading “I’m So Glad That I’m A Woman.”
Born On This Day: Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel was a perfectionistic, somewhat secretive and super chic composer who loved to entertain his friends and also spent a lot of time in solitude. He seemed to compose “in his mind” before he put it on paper. He thought that he composed too little. His masterpiece Bolero may have been conceived during aContinue reading “Born On This Day: Maurice Ravel”
The Season Of Sunsets
As spring is approaching, the sky delivers spectacular sunsets with a lot of pink. Long brush strokes of pink. Taking the time to gaze at them is a treat for the eyes, for the morale and for the vital energy. Maybe you consider it as self-care. That is what I will do this year. InContinue reading “The Season Of Sunsets”
Power To Where It Belongs
Radical self-acceptance: Once you are at peace with your own limitations, you can accept the limitations of others. For example: conflict addicts will not hear the subtlety, the sophistication, or the accuracy in your points. They are wired in a completely different way. Let them believe whatever they want to believe. Realizing your own needsContinue reading “Power To Where It Belongs”
Carpe Diem, Seize The Day – Like Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, who was born on this day in 1475, took immense pride in his work. Take a leaf out of his book. It can do you no harm. It can do you a world of good. 6 March 2020
Born On This Day: Michelangelo
Michelangelo Buonarotti was born in this day in 1475. He took pride in his work in a way that would help our much less optimistic time a great deal. He had many admirers in his lifetime and many detractors – guess which group grew over the centuries? Ha ha. 6 March 2019
Happy Birthday To Eddy Grant
“I pray to all the forces of nature that I remain as innocent as a baby and as pliable as a blade of grass, so that as all the aggression of a hostile world deals with me, I am able to rise with greater experience but equally as innocent as before. I have always beenContinue reading “Happy Birthday To Eddy Grant”
Happy Birthday To Julia Cameron.
I will write a longer writing of thanks to this Lady Of Creativity, whose work has been a companion to me since her first book ‘The Artist’s Way’. I have given The Artist’s Way to so many creative friends in the 1990s, who back in the day did not know what to do with it.Continue reading “Happy Birthday To Julia Cameron.”
How Life Feels When You Blossom
–Thanks to Antonio Vivaldi– Antonio Vivaldi was born on this day in 1678. His music has put many of us into a much better state of mind. He managed to convey how life feels when you blossom. I am grateful to his birth, I am grateful to his work, and I am enjoying the blossomingContinue reading “How Life Feels When You Blossom”
Born On This Day: Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi was born on this day in 1678, in Venice. His music is exuberance, clarity and celebration, like the sun that warms the air and highlights all that is beautiful, even tickles the grumpy to an inner smile. A non-practising priest (yeah), he praised creation through his fingers. He took pride in completing hisContinue reading “Born On This Day: Antonio Vivaldi”
Wangari Maathai Day / Africa Environment Day
“For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have a tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problemsContinue reading “Wangari Maathai Day / Africa Environment Day”
March 2nd In Music
On this day, Karen Carpenter, Rory Gallagher, Lou Reed, Kurt Weill and B. Smetana were born. Let the music play! 2 March 2015
Herb And Citrus Infused Vinegar
I use citrus peel infused vinegar for cleaning. Chamomile infused vinegar also makes an amazing cleaning agent, I have found out. Since it is almost spring — spring is in the air, though perhaps not yet in the land — , you might find that herb (or peel) infused vinegar is a great tonic forContinue reading “Herb And Citrus Infused Vinegar”
Nanda Jurela 