Dave Born – from Dave Born Designs – is pretty much my favourite designer. His stylish commentaries on current topics, the elegance and the echoing strength of his artwork delight me. I am thrilled to give him more exposure! Here are a few posters he made over the years: For Standing Rock: Water Is Life:Continue reading “Happy birthday, Dave!”
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Born On This Day: e.e. cummings
The spunky, highly popular, evergreen poet e.e. cummings was born 126 years ago. Here he talks about his upbringing (the speech was written down in the 1950s): https://newrepublic.com/article/119831/ee-cummings-lectures-about-his-parents-and-poetry
Born On This Day: Hannah Arendt
The time will come when the world will credit her as the leading political analyst and philosopher of the 20th century. Instead of presenting her marvelously perceptive quotes, or a short introduction to how she influenced me, I will share an essay by Siobhan Kattago (2018). I don’t do it because of the upcoming USContinue reading “Born On This Day: Hannah Arendt”
You Find What You Seek. (And What Do You Seek?)
What you seek, you will find, and you will find more of it than you imagine. If you want to discover outrage, it will be there. If you want to discover love, it will be there. If you want to discover instability, it will be there. If you want to discover stability, it will beContinue reading “You Find What You Seek. (And What Do You Seek?)”
In Agreement With The Love In Your Heart
Give attention to the things and the people you really like. This is how you live in love, connected with your heart and your guidance. This is how you raise your vibration. The key is to do it consciously: to make it a priority, which it is. When you honour your time and honour yourContinue reading “In Agreement With The Love In Your Heart”
I Recommend It:
It is a very nice place to be in when you crave nothing, worry about little, defend nothing and instead are aware of all the resources that make up your abundance, feel connected with those you respect and love, and are grateful to be … in the body, breathing, maybe smiling, and alert. 11 OctoberContinue reading “I Recommend It:”
Luxury On the Inside
With all the abundance that is inside you and before you, why do you focus on what you lack? With all the abundance that is available to us now, why do we focus on what we lack? Is it to motivate ourselves? But when will a minus turn into a plus, and how? What needsContinue reading “Luxury On the Inside”
Edit What Leaves Much To Be Desired, But Collect the Good
It feels so good to hold on to good things. And it feels great to let everything else go. We are taught to not hold onto our happiness. But no one jumps in to instruct us how to let go of something that harms us and has taken the place of happiness — of allContinue reading “Edit What Leaves Much To Be Desired, But Collect the Good”
Sweet Gum Resin
Early day sight: the amber on the sweet gum tree. It reminds me that a tree too is full of juice, chi, life force and medicine. The honey-coloured syrup with the subtle fragrance must be moving through the trunk all year, and it oozes through the bark… under what conditions? The right temperature? Excess? Surplus,Continue reading “Sweet Gum Resin”
Interspecies Love: Lucie and Toast
Most likely the cutest story you will watch this week!
Eden Land Farm In Alabama
Marlo and Anthony Paul, a physician and a botanist, grow medicinal herbs on their farm in Alabama and offer them as herbal supplements in this time. @ https://www.dp3herbs.org/covid-19-article Gosia Wozniacka wrote an article about them for Civil Eats. @ https://civileats.com/2020/07/14/the-doctor-botanist-couple-healing-a-community-in-the-rural-south/ Go read it! … “Today, the Pauls grow about 30 herbs on the farm; someContinue reading “Eden Land Farm In Alabama”
Coconut Oil, A Tasty Antiviral Remedy
#virgin #coconutoil #antiviral After 5+ months of intensive research, scientists at the U of Manila and the U of Singapore have found out that virgin coconut oil boosts the immune system and can curb the symptoms of infection with covid-19. A few days ago, I saw an article about a doctor in Kerala, India, whoContinue reading “Coconut Oil, A Tasty Antiviral Remedy”
Born On This Day: Thich Nhat Hanh
Happy birthday to Thay. On this day, I recall one of his talks, where he talked about personal responsibility, and how our many choices in the home and regarding our schedule and priorities influence our well-being and can last for a long time. He told the audience about a new mother who made the effort to moveContinue reading “Born On This Day: Thich Nhat Hanh”
Thanksgiving Potluck In 2015
Thanksgiving Potluck Guests: Yes, they do know how to have fun and hold an interesting conversation and make a party a success and they are crafty chefs and foragers, even elegant and creative souls. But what keeps bringing us together is that the main people here are role models. Examples of hard back and softContinue reading “Thanksgiving Potluck In 2015”
Under Your Nose
Nonparticipation with evil is a pretty good choice. Engagement with the good is a higher choice. But sometimes you don’t see it, the good, although it is under your nose; and sometimes it smacks you awake, because it is under your nose: it smells so fresh, so good. You let your eyes wander and youContinue reading “Under Your Nose”
Canadian Thanksgiving In 2016
I appreciate the harvest of this year, the lovely sunlight, the pretty late bloomers in the garden, the taste of the newest vegetables, the scent of the apple trees, a pair of sweet brown eyes that are looking at me right now, the chuckles of my friends in the background working on the potluck brunch,Continue reading “Canadian Thanksgiving In 2016”
The Three Sacred Blessings
Love and comfort and water to all. — The three classics, the three sacred blessings 8 October 2016
Beauty Recipes For the Adult Woman
Eat a poor person’s diet: food from the land, not from a fast food chain. Spend no money or time on vices. Stay out of bad relationships. Be a person, not a doll. Care deeply about something: it will show on your face as kindness and love. Learn new things and new skills. Spend timeContinue reading “Beauty Recipes For the Adult Woman”
Plunge Into It
Your inner life always reveals to you where your inspiration is, through its message system of dreams, feelings, the sense of “here is my home” and “ooh, that is so rrrightttt!”. Plunge into it. I have never quite accepted the theory of unworthiness, as in “I am unworthy of..” — likely because those who usedContinue reading “Plunge Into It”
Going Forward
The unconscious mind is almost always smarter than the conscious mind. Why is that? Maybe we grasp a situation through the body in a much fuller way than through the strictly logical brain. Maybe our thought patterns are somewhat limiting too… But our physique with all its senses pick up what we can’t fathom andContinue reading “Going Forward”
Nanda Jurela 