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”
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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”
Contagious Gardening
On Sunday, I visited my old garden, the one I grew from scratch on poor soil and against all warnings by neighbours who thought that I was “doing that son of a bitch of a landlord a favour that he did not deserve” – let’s say, I had more reactions of incomprehension than curiosity orContinue reading “Contagious Gardening”
Bloom (And Do Not Interfere)
#thrivingnature #approveofthriving #resonance #goingup #endingthewar #coexistence What would you do, if no one changed? If your Mom, Dad, relatives, “women”, “men”, politicians, whatever group of people you wish could be someone else than who they are stayed exactly as they are? Would you still stay in your neighbourhood? Would you stay in your job? WouldContinue reading “Bloom (And Do Not Interfere)”
Water, Nature, and Deep Looking
Dehydration, stress and fear can be the reason for poor attention, interrupted and slow thoughts, indecision and repeated mistakes. Drink a lot of water. De-stress by spending time in nature. Examine your fears. (Some have something to teach you – and can make you a proactive participant. Others show you what you can eliminate forContinue reading “Water, Nature, and Deep Looking”
Cut Your Losses, Be Present to the Good
A few weeks ago, I listened to a podcast with people who have had near-death experiences. All returned to life with a new perspective about what life is about and that the limits to our lifetime are a call to focus on what is important. One of the speakers made an impression on me byContinue reading “Cut Your Losses, Be Present to the Good”
It’s A New Chapter
It is funny how we grasp for a symbol — a “trophy” or a life event — that marks a new chapter in life… when all we need to do is just walk into it. Just claim it when it is yours. NJ 24 July 2016
Looking Forward to More Great Music
When there is an abundance of great new music (right now is such a time; I hear a lot of unknown – to me – songs that have fetching rhythms, meaningful lyrics, and solid singers), a huge shift in consciousness is about to happen. When art sucks (and much of the art of the earlyContinue reading “Looking Forward to More Great Music”
Expensive Promises
#newage #outoftouchwithreality #verbalunlivedphilosophies #phonyteachers #tooexpensive The attempt to liberate yourself from programming and negative, cyclical experiences belongs to psychology, not to spirituality. Although it feels great to be free, and it is very rewarding to use energy for the aim of self-liberation, a lot of gurus and new agers have nothing to offer beyond that.Continue reading “Expensive Promises”
Nanda Jurela 