This morning, I tasted, for the first time, bee balm petals. I have had parts of the plant in teas, salads, and stews before, but the petals on their own are a surprising delicacy. Pollinators can’t be wrong. I give them credit. It is one of the best tastes ever! A bit like honey, orangeContinue reading “Bee Balm Petals”
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Sunlight Is Medicine
I wrote this is 2014, before vitamin D / D3 and sunlight were promoted as something truly good for our health. Because of the pandemic and its echo in 2021, it reads like a current reminder to go out and soak up the sun, while you can and every day. If you are a fireContinue reading “Sunlight Is Medicine”
To Have Incarnated In the Body Of a Woman Is a Fine Bliss
In my mind’s eye, I am seeing a scene from a parallel universe: the Creator with a magic wand and some helpers breathing into clay figures the awareness that will live in them… “Surely we can’t give her the body of a man. That would be a huge loss to us all… and no fitContinue reading “To Have Incarnated In the Body Of a Woman Is a Fine Bliss”
The Gift of the Garden
If you have a prolific, tough, self-sufficient weed that is also medicinal, edible and highly attractive like purslane, don’t throw it in the compost. Give it its own place to shine. I have placed pots with purslane that I collected in garden beds while weeding all over the sunny spots of my garden. I enjoyContinue reading “The Gift of the Garden”
Prepared for Emergencies
#Gaia #resourcefulness #allinthesameboat #notthefirstnotthelastcrisis #emergencypreparedness I prefer to be prepared – for any disaster – if I can be… Not everything is in our power to control, but how you face shocking news is almost always in your control. You know very well – if you read even 10% of messages I posted since 2011,Continue reading “Prepared for Emergencies”
Nanda Jurela 