bell hooks is my favourite writer, cultural critic, contemporary thinker. Her wisdom, brilliance, profundity, love-centred consciousness and constructive solutions have no peer in our time. I recommend her books – if you are unfamiliar with her work and are seeking new reading material. If you are familiar with her books and talks, you are probablyContinue reading “Happy Birthday To the Great bell hooks”
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“Just For Today, I Will Appreciate All My Blessings”
We are blasé about so many things until we lose them, and we are unfamiliar with so many things until we receive them. The noticing of blessings is a soft path to awareness: the awareness that your life is being supported, that your actions have consequences, that your mind creates meaning, that your feelings guideContinue reading ““Just For Today, I Will Appreciate All My Blessings””
Thanks to My Cells (On this New Day)
Just for today, I send a smile and love to all the cells in my body. ✨ Thank you for working so well together on my behalf. Thank you for keeping me healthy. Thank you for letting me feel so much pleasure every day. ✨ May you shine with love on this day. Know thatContinue reading “Thanks to My Cells (On this New Day)”
Late Summer Sizzle
The crickets sing all day now. So cool. The inspiration to electronic music. A friendly reminder from nature that the males show off their gifts to attract the females. Society overturned nature in this aspect. The role reversal has become almost complete… That may be why relationships have become war zones and places of heartContinue reading “Late Summer Sizzle”
The Soundtrack Of Heat
The crickets sing every night until dawn and get louder in the afternoon when the heat rises. I will miss that when it stops. (I don’t want to think of the cold season just yet, though.) 20 September 2017 #lingeringintheheat #lovingtheheat #savourthesummer #groovy
Born On this Day: Nick Cave
5 years ago, on Nick Cave’s birthday, I wrote: Thanks to Nick Cave – for having the je ne quois (very cool touch) to not take his wife for granted, even admitting, and admitting in a song, that he feels the fear that she might leave him (which celebrity do you know has the gutsContinue reading “Born On this Day: Nick Cave”
Harvest Season 2020
Start collecting your seeds for 2021. I hear my local co-gardeners and many semi-famous gardening authors and gardening content creators say the same. Many seed companies and garden centres have sold out their stocks fast this year.It is not easy to predict what will happen in the coming four seasons. When you gather your ownContinue reading “Harvest Season 2020”
Two Portions Of Gratitude, One Portion Of Love
There is a thirst in us for appreciation. It is both a thirst to be appreciated and a thirst to appreciate. There is a need in us for gratitude. It is both a need to hear thank you and a need to feel thank you. May we be led to the sources of water. MayContinue reading “Two Portions Of Gratitude, One Portion Of Love”
Co-Create Abundance In Your Corner Of the World
If on this Equinox you are smitten with the abundance in nature, you can decide to participate in it in the coming year. Maybe there is a shift in attitude you can lean into, or a series of steady actions towards enjoying and co-creating abundance in your corner of the world. Now is a goodContinue reading “Co-Create Abundance In Your Corner Of the World”
Happy Equinox
Seven years ago, I wrote this: Happy spring to you in the South. It is another season of growing and expansion. Happy fall to us in the North. It is the season of harvest. Harvest… It would be so healing for me to reap all that I have sown. I have the rest of myContinue reading “Happy Equinox”
Answer From the Garden
It is funny how I always see the shape of a heart in nature — in fog, clouds, tree crowns, water, coffee, stains, leaves… Yesterday, I was pondering a problem in my garden that, on the surface at least, is the opposite of heart or love. I found no answer to how to solve it,Continue reading “Answer From the Garden”
Peace With and Peace Within
Just for today I am grateful for all the people who have not given up on peace and who are working for peace and for the people who are growing the courage to live a life of peace. When we think of peace, we first think of Peace With. Now that we acknowledge more andContinue reading “Peace With and Peace Within”
Happy World Peace Day
What is world peace? Truth and reconciliation and justice on one hand, and on the other hand, allowing the earth to heal us again, no more harm, and goodwill. Coexistence, serenity, peace to us all. 21 September 2016
Company – It Rubs Off
Being in the presence of someone very free nudges that part in you that is very free too. Being in the presence of someone very loving frees your nature and all the resources you have to meet life with more love than you knew you had. Being in the presence of those whose traits youContinue reading “Company – It Rubs Off”
At 12 (A Memory)
So here is what I listen to at the breakfast table: “Mom, do you know that porcupines have antibodies in their quills? When they stab their predators with them, the predator gets enough pain to not hurt them again, but also some antibiotics to heal whatever sickness they might have. So you can say thatContinue reading “At 12 (A Memory)”
Perseverance
Perseverance — a clumsy word for a good trait, a great attitude. There is no fulfilment without it. Could anything grow at all without it? 19 September 2016
How Do You Contribute To the Web Of Life?
Confidence grows from contributing to the harmony in the web of life. It is not a showy type of confidence that you can push on others in order to prove a point and that crumbles before a challenge, rather the opposite: the confidence that lets you feel at peace, makes you available and able toContinue reading “How Do You Contribute To the Web Of Life?”
2020 – 2020 Vision
Let this image sink in… In order for you to take it in fully, I am choosing to add very few words to it. Who has felt like that too, since the pandemic measures were implemented?
Happy Birthday to Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges is a truth teller at a time when truth is not valued – by the masses. Me, I value it. There are so many great essays, so many good books, so many keen observations that he shared over the decades. On this day, I am grateful to his example. Because he shows up,Continue reading “Happy Birthday to Chris Hedges”
New Moon In September: Keep What Sparks Joy
Enjoy the new moon energy today. It is very pleasant. As the moon starts its fresh cycle, you can start a fresh cycle of satisfying choices. Renew your body with the harvest of foods you have grown, with vegetables grown by people who can teach you how to grow your food, and with plenty ofContinue reading “New Moon In September: Keep What Sparks Joy”
Nanda Jurela 