Holiday decorations look much better on leafless trees than on evergreen trees. Evergreen trees are already decorated — with their saturated green colours, their needles, their vitality. I don’t know why that couldn’t be a new trend: decorate trees that have lost their leaves and root in the soil. I just walked through my neighbourhood and sawContinue reading “Decorate Trees In the Soil”
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I Am Grateful
to my new followers. I had a very work-intensive fall of 2020, and will be posting a lot more regularly in the winter. May you enjoy your Friday to the max. I also hope that this is a month when you can harvest all the inner work you have done in 2020: that your familyContinue reading “I Am Grateful”
Model Of Peace: Sweden
Sweden has not participated in wars for over 200 years. So when anyone tells you that peace is a pipe dream and against human nature, recall that a whole country managed to resolve conflicts for two centuries. Sweden also features on every list of countries with a high quality of life. It is strange thatContinue reading “Model Of Peace: Sweden”
Born On this Day: Camille Claudel
Camille Claudel (born on 8 December 1864 – 1943) provided a cautionary tale about what an envious mentor could do to a gifted woman – when he could. He benefited greatly from her anonymous work for him; he did not need to sabotage her at all. Auguste R. was even more famous than her –Continue reading “Born On this Day: Camille Claudel”
Share From Your Wealth
Make the effort to share from that which is most abundant in you, from all those energies that are overflowing from inside of you. You can not hoard that anyway, and it comes to you so easily that offering your surplus feels pleasant, plentiful and luxurious. Two things none of us has in abundance areContinue reading “Share From Your Wealth”
Born On this Day: Dave Brubeck
1h long interview with the late Dave Brubeck:
Shopping and Sharing, Boosting Value and Values
Support a business near you, support a business you love – every time you can. Go local, if and when you are shopping for the holidays. Keep the money exchange local. Support people whose products and services you love. They can keep supplying you, and you will feel good about how you are spending yourContinue reading “Shopping and Sharing, Boosting Value and Values”
Gifting Season
The more you withhold nurturing your loved ones, the easier you fall prey to advertising. The less nurturing you receive from those you choose to hang out with, the easier you fall prey to advertising (i.e., empty words). The latter phenomenon is rampant in women; the former in men. I won’t go into the discussionContinue reading “Gifting Season”
Full Moon No. 2 In November: Fortune Favours the Bold
Happy full Beaver Moon. If you were up before dawn and lucky enough to have a clear sky, you saw the full moon in its glory. The moon is still full — you can look up now. Full moons are about maximum absorption, while new moons are about maximum detox, as I mentioned in myContinue reading “Full Moon No. 2 In November: Fortune Favours the Bold”
Trust And Love
I trust my life as a result of loving it. I love myself as a result of trusting myself. NJ 29 April 2015
Sagittarians, Born On 27 November
Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee were born on this day, only 2 years apart. The fit, smooth-moving, telegenic one (1940 – 1973 / Bruce) belongs to an old world; while the wild, bold, colourful one (1942 – 1970 / Jimi) belongs to the new, and alive, paradigm. Goes to show you that discipline and appearancesContinue reading “Sagittarians, Born On 27 November”
From Speed To Ritalin: A Society That Won’t Sober Up
I recommend Martin Kasindorf’s movie about doctor Max Jacobson who treated many US celebrities and politicians of the 20th century with his concoctions of minerals, vitamins, human placenta, enzymes, steroids and methamphetamines. The movie tells the facts in a light style, but you will find yourself seeing connections between then and now and contemplating observationsContinue reading “From Speed To Ritalin: A Society That Won’t Sober Up”
Spotlight On the Results
A lot of brilliant discoveries sounded odd when they were first presented. The minority of the emotionally highly intelligent and open-minded wouldn’t dismiss the information though, but met it with (some) curiosity, appreciation for freshness, even the attitude of “Hmmm, I wonder if that is useful in some way…” An idea is not correct whenContinue reading “Spotlight On the Results”
Motivation
In a group of learners, who will be the one to learn the fastest and apply the content right away? It is not the one who is being treated with the greatest respect. It is not the one who honours his time the most. It is not the least comfortable one either. And it isContinue reading “Motivation”
Folly And Wisdom, In a Culture
A culture that mistakes its sages for fools and its fools for sages remains foolish. A culture that looks up to harmless intelligence as a great good to aspire to is extremely intelligent, doesn’t hurt itself and it advances. 17 November 2015
The Wise One And the Fool
The difference between a wise one and a fool is that the wise one corrects his blunders, while the fool will not, even keeps them to entertain himself. 19 September 2018
Born On This Day: Cindy Blackman Santana
Happy birthday to Cindy Blackman Santana, a role model to all creators of beauty, a virtuoso, a person lit with passion, highly inspiring for her work and personal ethic, the embodiment of the sacred feminine on earth. May many follow her foot steps in their own fields. Listening to Cindy in concert this year wasContinue reading “Born On This Day: Cindy Blackman Santana”
The Leonids Are Peaking Tonight
They are still active for a few days after tonight. The moon is still small and the lunar light pretty faint, so you should get a good look at them – on a clear night. The Leonids are the second largest meteor shower of the year. (The Perseids in August seem even more spectacular, andContinue reading “The Leonids Are Peaking Tonight”
New Moon In November: Gratification
This new moon is refreshing. What a perfect time to declutter, refresh, cleanse and renew: your home, your body, and your mind. Bring fresh energy into your home by letting go of things that you do not use anymore. Take the quality stuff that has served its purpose to charity, or offer it to aContinue reading “New Moon In November: Gratification”
Leaf Trees Prepare for the Coming Year
The buds that you see on the twigs contain — within themselves, in miniature — the leaves and flowers of the coming year. (Some trees have buds that carry both flowers and leaves; other trees have two types of buds, one type carries the flowers, the other carries the leaves.) Did you know that the tree forms its budsContinue reading “Leaf Trees Prepare for the Coming Year”
Nanda Jurela 