One thing I can always rely on, for the last 17 years or so, when I started sending healing to our planet every Friday: Friday turns out good to great. Saturday is better. Yeah, I have been doing it that long. I plan to practise it for life. Friday brings heaven to earth every week.Continue reading “Nurture It Forward: EarthSends”
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Love Is – You Can Not Create It – Cherish It
You can strengthen a bond through shared experiences. But you do not create love. Love rises effortlessly for no other reasons than that a person inspires it by being – himself or herself. Some people leave us cold. Some give us a hard time because we don’t fit their ideas of who we should be.Continue reading “Love Is – You Can Not Create It – Cherish It”
Inkling
The first impression of a place, a setting or a person is quite far from what it turns out to be. That is why you can only speak with authority about a topic that has saturated your mind. First impressions are helpful though when they touch your curiosity, inspire, or provide you with a goodContinue reading “Inkling”
The Redolence of Heat
I am grateful to the first thing I notice on this day: To the hot pink sky before sunrise that only deep summer produces. To the succulent green foliage in the land. – The colours of the heart chakra. To the perception of slow motion that the heat induces, that time is expanded and abundant.Continue reading “The Redolence of Heat”
From Mindset to Mindset
When I was a teenager, the things that move or impress me today were already part of my experience, but I didn’t react to them in the same way. I registered them as “curious”, “odd”, somewhat uncommon and as having more life force, even though I wouldn’t have used the term and I didn’t haveContinue reading “From Mindset to Mindset”
Freedom: Luscious in Art and When Embodied
Great art — be it music, poetry, literature, sculpture, painting or film — changes the way we move in the world. Its effects are first felt in the body, and then in the mind — as liberation, as expansion into a wider, untapped reality, connection and empathy, as the freedom to think in ways forContinue reading “Freedom: Luscious in Art and When Embodied”
“Nose”
Parents, partners, friends, colleagues: always listen to your gut. Or to your instinctual-emotional knowing. It will steer you right. Especially if you are a parent. You may not rationalize the vibes that you are picking up, but they are communicating something to you that you need to pay attention to. Stay connected. NJ 29 July 2015Continue reading ““Nose””
The Hundred Steps Diet
The food that tastes best grows in your own garden. And just like that, your inner being grows by how you water it and how you feed your foundation. In return, it nurtures you, it gives you the energy to continue. Your inner being grows its power and its beauty from your time and trustContinue reading “The Hundred Steps Diet”
Meteor Shower in July
The Delta Aquarids are peaking tonight and tomorrow night. Look up. They are easy to spot after midnight.
We Are Custodians
“If more land owners truly thought of themselves as custodians, sustainable change would be far easier to achieve.” Elizabeth Waddington, EWSP Consultancy I enjoy her blog. Maybe you will, too. Take a look.
Slaves to Master Alcohol
It is fascinating how people who live unmanageable lives have that bravado to lecture you in detail about the details of your life. They know what you are doing wrong. You are living in the wrong neighbourhood. You are shopping at the wrong grocers and retailers. You are overspending. You don’t know the value ofContinue reading “Slaves to Master Alcohol”
Go to the Root
When you stabilize your life, mood, finances, you will talk about other topics than about the long list of issues that make you angry, the apologies about why you can’t enjoy your calm and historically remarkable liberties and safety, and you will be less interested in portraying yourself as unworthy or a castaway. Perspective comesContinue reading “Go to the Root”
Who Is Catching You When You Fall – the Ground or Your Lover?
Well, mother earth is always there for you and will remain to soothe you in moments of sorrow, despair or anger. Learn to be like the earth. Then call yourself a lover. You have mastered the Art of Loving when you can absorb loathing, self-loathing, regrets, unhappiness, shame, pointless drama, even helplessness without withdrawing yourContinue reading “Who Is Catching You When You Fall – the Ground or Your Lover?”
Less Is Beautiful? Yes. Maybe. Except…
The Exception to the Rule of Less: You can make do with less. You can do fine with less clutter, with less to worry about – that is aesthetic too. The exception to the rule of less: you can not do better with less love. You can make do, but you are not better off.Continue reading “Less Is Beautiful? Yes. Maybe. Except…”
“How Have Your Views Changed Since Covid19?”
There has been a minimal change in my views on life as such, but a big change in my perception of leadership. There are actually very few leaders, and most of them are not in leadership positions. Those who sit in leadership positions tell themselves that they are handling “the situation” in a great way,Continue reading ““How Have Your Views Changed Since Covid19?””
Bread and Games and Americana
Sometimes I wonder about what people in 200 years will think of us. Will they conclude that we were sick with self-obsession, greed, lack of moral courage, utter disregard of the ecology, addictions to entertainment and substances, in other words, self-chosen slavery to states that made it possible to ignore most of the horrors corporations,Continue reading “Bread and Games and Americana”
Friendly Love
Your best relationships are not with the people who impact you (or cut) the deepest or who make you feel the most useful, but the bonds that are the FRIENDLIEST. Being taught “stuff” or being the one to teach “stuff” and the grave feelings of being useful and on purpose only go so far. LoveContinue reading “Friendly Love”
Maple’s Gift
Today, I planted 4 maple trees. They started to grow in my pots outdoors. The wind must have blown them into them. I also know from which maple – the one that likes me the best, the healthiest, prettiest and tallest growing near my home. When I moved here, it was a small and distressedContinue reading “Maple’s Gift”
Vegetable Blossoms
Potato flowers are as beautiful as any spring messenger. Only you get potatoes after. Squash blossoms are as charming as lilies or large morning glories. Zucchini blossoms especially have a gorgeous colour – a deep yellow like the sun, a holy colour in Asia. I can see why. I can’t take my eyes off them!Continue reading “Vegetable Blossoms”
Baby Sparrow’s Pluck
I am grateful for the new day, the bird song at dawn, the rays of sun light spreading through the clouds like liquid gold, the moist air, the baby sparrow at my feeder, who when he got my attention opened his wings to show me, “Hey there, human, here is what you do”, and heContinue reading “Baby Sparrow’s Pluck”
Nanda Jurela 