"Every single person has a life to live, a work to do, a glorious personality, a wonderful individuality." Dr. Edward Bach - The Original Writings
http://www.bachflower.com/questionnaire.htm
there are 38 remedies and
7 groups; ( 7 emotional states that need our attention, the essence can help you help yourself through your emotive needs. I believe with work through your intellects and emotions; learning how these work together and becoming aware of what they are telling you can be very beneficial.) And along your way, your journey; these wonderful flowers of the fields and glades are here to help us. I see my journey just as we would before motorized transportation and most walked. Some had horses, but even then walking and leading your horse who, wise as he/she was, would want to stop and graze motherearth's mighty plains of delectable flowers and grasses. In our journey I see those blessed habitats. Our flowers of the fields and glades are still there for us. Even sticking out through the cracks of our old bridges and roads. One way or another we need to stop and be with our mother and her bounty. It is still there for us. but I've gone too far. Anyone reading this most likely already knows their own journey, this era, it's journey. With all my respect, here's a bit of info the doctor suggested where flowers help with seven emotional upsets(grandios upsets as it were). I have also known some of these and do work on mine all of the time. I am feeling stuck and remose. Walked with intent and will go check my flowers and fields here in a minute. Caio!
http://www.bachflower.com/7_Groups.htm
1. Fear.
2. Uncertainty.
3. Insufficient interest in present circumstances.
4. Loneliness.
5. Over-sensitivity to influences and ideas.
6. Despondency or Despair.
7. Over-care for welfare of others.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
Botonical.com is the Home of the electronic book 'The Modern Herbal' NICE REFERENCE
Here is a website I wanted to re-refernce.
Botonical.com
Botonical.com
You can do anything
I wanted to thank Karon for sharing this wonderful video with me! 1000TYs and Hugs, :D
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
The Color Purple; to use the phrase lightly
When purple come to mind;
Here is a link that I looked at when looking up color meaning;
Purple and indigo
Purple crown
Purple at the sixth energy center; note 'a', wise
http://crystal-cure.com/purple.html
and another site with color meaning information;
http://www.magicalfreedom.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=13
Here is a link that I looked at when looking up color meaning;
Purple and indigo
Purple crown
Purple at the sixth energy center; note 'a', wise
http://crystal-cure.com/purple.html
and another site with color meaning information;
http://www.magicalfreedom.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=13
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Cap and Trade Legislation Explained
"Call your members of Congress Today. Find your senators and representatives at www.congress.org
Don't let Congress pass another one (cap and trade) without hearing from you."
Don't let Congress pass another one (cap and trade) without hearing from you."
Water; It's A Lot More
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se12y9hSOM0
The Marketing of Fear!
One of my BIGGEST pet peeves!
Love you all, but let us STOP talking if all we can talk a bout is fearfulness in our markets at least.
Or we could at least cut down.
Gossip with one less person
fear monger with one less person a day or a week.
Think of how you talk about fear.
This video talks about fear, but it also talks about
RESOLUTION
We might all think about adding this to our dialogs.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Common Elderberry identification
Here is the link to an identification site
for a book excerpt on the matter;
here's the link:
http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Plants.Folder/Elderberry.html
"...The tiny, black, globular berries grow on branching, umbrella-like clusters..."
A Cautionary note;
Avoid elderberries species with red fruit growing in rounded, instead of flat clusters.
Honey and Elderberry; a couple of my favorite things~~~
Here are a couple of sites I wanted to hold on to and to share with others.
Apitherapy Raw Honey
Honey Gardens link;
http://www.honeygardens.com/letters.htm
~~~AND~~~
How to make Elderberry syrup link
You Tube Video;
Apitherapy Raw Honey
Honey Gardens link;
http://www.honeygardens.com/letters.htm
~~~AND~~~
How to make Elderberry syrup link
You Tube Video;
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Plant of the Day; Linseed
http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/EwerbyandEvedon/imageDetail.asp?id=57973
below from wiki;
Linseed oil, also known as flax seed oil, is a clear to yellowish oil obtained from the dried ripe seeds of the flax plant (Linum usitatissimum, Linaceae). The oil is obtained by cold pressing, sometimes followed by solvent extraction.
Linseed oil can polymerize and the reaction is exothermic, and rags soaked in it can ignite spontaneously. Due to its polymer-like properties linseed oil is used on its own or blended with other oils, resins and solvents as an impregnator and varnish in wood finishing, as a pigment binder in oil paints, as a plasticizer and hardener in putty and in the manufacture of linoleum. The use of linseed oil has declined over the past several decades with the increased use of alkyd resins, which are similar but partially synthetic materials that resist yellowing.[1]
It is an edible oil, but because of its strong flavor and odor is only a minor constituent of human nutrition, although it is marketed as a nutritional supplement
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
John Hopkins Update - Good article
Highly recommended to read!!!!!
For those of you who may not know, Johns Hopkins is a highly respected health institution and does incredible research. Because I care about YOU, I would like you to take the time to read this and PLEASE, PLEASE.. Heed the advise.
John Hopkins Update - Good article
AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY.
Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins :
1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.
3 When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply..
*CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
A. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses, but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.
B. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.
C. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.
D. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
E. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.
12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy cancer cells.. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.
16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.
1. No plastic containers in micro.
2. No water bottles in freezer.
3.. No plastic wrap in microwave.
Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Cast le Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Pa per isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.
Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.
This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your life.
For those of you who may not know, Johns Hopkins is a highly respected health institution and does incredible research. Because I care about YOU, I would like you to take the time to read this and PLEASE, PLEASE.. Heed the advise.
John Hopkins Update - Good article
AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY.
Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins :
1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.
3 When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply..
*CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
A. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses, but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.
B. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.
C. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.
D. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
E. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.
12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy cancer cells.. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.
16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.
1. No plastic containers in micro.
2. No water bottles in freezer.
3.. No plastic wrap in microwave.
Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Cast le Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Pa per isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.
Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.
This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your life.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Intro Please; Excerpt of...C. M. Woodhouse; The Times Literary Supplement, London, August 6, 1954
Why it was called a fairy story;
"...In fact Orwell was a deep lover of words who never consciously misused them. If he said he had written a fairy-srory with a political purpose, we cannot lightly suppose he spoke lightly. A political purpose suggests some kind of moral, and that suggests rather the fable, the medium of Aesop or la Fontaine or even Thurber. There have been fairy-stories purporting to have morals before now: Rimsky-Korsakov called Le Coq d'Or "a fairy-tale with a moral," though no one except possibly the Russian Imperial Censor (who objected to the original version of the opera as subversive) has ever been able to detect what it was. There is something freakish about the idea, anyway, which makes it seem unlikely to stir the emotions of the common reader; and it is impossible to attach a moral to any familiar sense to Animal Farm, where wickedness ends in triumph and virtue is utterly crushed. There is perhaps a moral for farmers: don't take to drink and let your animals get out of hand; but even so the villains will be comforted to find that everything comes out all right for them in the end. For the downtrodden animals there is nothing but misery, cruelty, and injustice; and in place of a moral there is only the tragic chorus of the donkey Benjamin, who held that "life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly." This is not like the kind of moral that tells us to look before we leap or not to count our boobies before they are hatched. For the animals never had a chance to choose, and if they had it would have made no difference.
It is just the sense of purposeless cruelty, though, that gives the clue to Orwell's purpose, as well as to his deadly serious reason for calling Animal Farm a fairy-story. The point about fairy-stories is that they are written not merely without a moral but without a morality. They take place in a world beyond good and evil, where people (or animals) suffer or prosper for reasons unconnected with ethical merit--for being ugly or beautiful respectively, for instance, or for even more unsatisfactory reasons. A little girl sets out to do a good deed for her grandmother and gets gobbled up by a wolf; a young rogue escapes the gallows (and gets an old Jew hanged instead) by his talent on the fiddle; dozens of young princes die horrible deaths trying to get through the thorn-hedge that surrounds the Sleeping Beauty, just because they had the bad luck to be born before her hundred-year curse expired; and one young prince, no better or worse, no handsomer or uglier than the rest gets through merely because he has the good luck to arrive just as the hundred years are up; and so on and so on. Even when Grimm's stepmothers are called "wicked," it is well to remember that in German their Bosheit is viciousness and bad temper, not moral guilt. For all this is related by the fairy-story tellers without approval or disapproval, without a glimmer of subjective feeling, as though their pens were dipped in surgical spirit to sterilize the microbes of emotion. They never seek to criticize or moralize, to protest or plead or persuade; and if they have an emotional impact on the reader, as the greatest of them do, that is not intrinsic to the stories. They would indeed only weaken that impact to achieve it. They move by not seeking to move; almost, it seems, by seeking not to move.".
C. M. Woodhouse
aka ~~~ end quote.
Thank you for your insights Mr. Woodhouse
I have said throughout the blogsphere that my posts are sometimes, if not, mosttimes just for my reference(and in our era, blogshperically~publicly so), and merely for my journal and with that I will now add that they are entering the league of fairy-story. If you are so moved, please join me.
I would like to clarify; this excerpt spoke mountains to me about six months or a year ago. Just as Don Miguel Ruiz did.
Namesta!
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Thursday Quote
"I'm beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."
--Laura Ingalls Wilder
--Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Eat The Weed DOT com YouTube episode on Smilax! The original root used in Sasperilla and Root Beer.
Very interesting video. I don't know that Smilax grows in this region. I couldn't find it in our Plants of the Pacifc Northwest which is a bummer because it looked interesting and kind of yummy!
I am going to look this up and wrtie to Green Dean. He is a great fellow who loves to talk about wildlife plants aka weeds. If I remember right, he is from the East Coast. So you eastcoast folks should give it a try. There is also a receipe for rootbeer using the Smilax root.
©Allisonians
From Green Deane's Website
"...There used to be a field in Sanford, Florida, near Lake Monroe, that was nearly overrun with growing Smilax every spring. I could get a couple of quarts of tender tips easily over a few weeks, enough for many side dishes. Cooked like asparagus or green beans, they are excellent, and also edible raw in small quantities..."
"Oh, about that field in Sanford: A century ago it was a truck farm producing celery and other vegetables. Then it fell fallow growing smilax. Now it’s an apartment complex."
There is a look alike that Deane warns about on his video and in the text. Tick the title to redirect to the video.
Here is the link to his site;
http://www.eattheweeds.com/www.EatTheWeeds.Com/EatTheWeeds.com/Entries/1938/2/15_Smilax%3A_A_Brier%2C_And_That%E2%80%99s_No_Bull.html
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Green Deane’s “Itemized” Plant Profile
A climbing shrub with tuberous roots, knobby white roots tinged with pink, bamboo like stems, more or less thorny, leaves varying with species and on the bush, tiny flowers, five slim petals, fruit round, green turning to black, one small brown seed. Some species have red fruit, edibility of red fruit unreported.
Starts putting on shoots in February in Florida, later in the season as one moves north. Seeds germinate best after a freeze.
It grows best in moist woodlands, but can tolerate a lot of dry and is often seen climbing trees. Left on its own with nothing to climb it sometimes creates and brambly shrub. Thicket provides protection for birds.
Beside making sarsaparilla, the roots can be used in soups or stews, young shoots eaten cooked or in small quantities raw, berries can be eaten both raw and cooked, usually are chewed like gum (avoid the large seed.) Pounds of roots to pounds of flour is a 10 to one ratio.
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LKF:
More from Green Deane
Mythologically speaking;
Name Smilax comes from Greek Mythology with several variations.
Smilax was a beautiful young nymph who fell in love with a mortally young Spartan named Crocus . Crocus fell in love with Hermes. Hermes turned him into a flower named Crocus where we also get saffron. Smilax was heart broken because her love was now a blooming idiot. Aphrodite took pity on her and turned her into a vine so that Smilax could always be with her Crocus.
Thanks Deane!
Photo sketch from;
http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/s/smilax55.html
Photo picture of
Smilax rotundifolia & S. auriculata From;
http://www.floridata.com/tracks/transplantedgardener/ViciousVines.cfm
Monday, April 5, 2010
The Intuitive Life: Open Doors and Venture Forth By Margaret Ruth Huffington Post (Tick the Title to be redirected there)
I love doorways and entryways. Every time I enter a home, garden, store or the like; I think for a brief moment~hm~ this isn't it, but it is...
The Post Offices always have that smell of acrid movement; and that room before, that entrance hall. Prepares you, no?
The church has some kind of hallway or entrance way. Those do vary from exceptional to drab in my experience, but all have that~hm~ what is this for sense...
The stores have varying entrance ways, as do the malls, hospitals and schools. Gyms, wellness centers, and different kinds of buildings have that area to stop, put your keys in your pocket and close your umbrella place, usually.
Symbolically I love doorways; thresholds, entranceways of all kinds. This is why this article by Margaret stopped me to take a quick look and then prompted me to 'cut and paste' it to my entranceway. My doorway that leads to my little place here where I open doors, and look in, and venture forth a spell and then back again, I think. Sometimes roam the new environment, sometimes just leave the door open to see, smell and hear what comes forth.
I also like how literature uses doorways. C. S. Lewis has the wardrobe, but also has the rings, ponds and such. Madeline L'Engle uses portals that seem like a doorway and there is always someone at the door. Then there is Alice, down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass. In her attempts to enter various doorways she has to be first altered to do so. That is so brilliant since the doorway is such a symbol, isn't it?
And what of that rabbit hole? Is it like being born, or born 'again', a new realization maybe? I don't know, but I do think there is some room for speculation, always.
©Allisonians
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Doorways as a symbol carry quite a bit of meaning. They are a promise, a beckoning, an invitation. Just as opening a physical door leads us across a threshold and into a new space, opening metaphysical doors of the psyche and of our deepest desires allow us to take on new adventures and experiences. The problem, though, of doorways seems to be that many wonder whether they are choosing the right door; they worry about those not chosen or what will be left behind if they venture on through.
You can use your intuition and imagination to explore the doorways facing you right now. By doing this, you can heighten your awareness of your possibilities and of the fears that might be holding you back.
Here's one idea of how to do this: Start by setting up a quiet time and space and focusing within. Visualize a blank screen in your mind's eye and allow images of doors to present themselves. You might get just one; you might see many. Now play with them. You can open them all at once or one at a time. You can check to see what vista presents itself in the opening. You could literally get objects, times, dates or people, or you could get more dream-like symbols or landscapes.
As you do this, let your intuition educate you on these possibilities. Watch how you feel when you cross through the door opening. For instance, if there is a new job or career on the other side, are you happy? Are you afraid? Do you resist exploring what is there?
If you do not know which door to choose, or are resistant to taking a new path, then you can imagine leaving them all open for a while. Holding this type of image in your consciousness instructs the psyche to stay available for possibilities. Or, you can imagine that you can go through all these openings without losing anything. You can remind yourself that even if you explore one doorway, you can always leave and try another. You can remember that you don't have to miss anything by crossing the threshold and adding a new adventure.
Photo courtesy of Huffington Post
Sunday, April 4, 2010
WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND?
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by
Christina Rossetti
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Photo and below Caption from;
Architect Chetwood Associates has applied for planning for a £2.5 million “wind dam” in Russia.
The dam, which would be located over a gorge at Lake Lagoda in north-west Russia, includes a cup-shaped spinnaker sail, believed to be the first of its kind, which will generate renewable energy by funnelling the wind through an attached turbine.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun, Won't You Please Shine Down On Me. Another Interesting Natural News Article from Mike!
I know it sounds so opposite from everything the media and such has warned the public about, but I live in the PNW where the sun is not always available. I have always loved a bright morning, but also know that rain is essential. I find it so curious that the sun is what we’re being warned about. I live in an industrial area, and know that we are not as warned about the spills and 'shut down' clean ups and their dangers. Why not just blame the sun, not our people's bread and butter? Somehow we continue on, for the most part, unscathed. Those poor souls that get ill have no alternative than to listen to their doctor's. I pray they find true help with them. That they are 'CARED' for. I don't mean to confuse or disrespect anyone who has had problems there in. I only wonder about the mixed media genres.
We live down river (far down) from Hanford nuclear Camp.
It’s funny how Hanford has spent 54 billion dollars to come up with a stable glass to store the radiation in and as of 2006, hadn’t made one ounce, but had spent all that money. I am not a research scientist, but I know that amount of money is extreme, as is our nuclear problems at Hanford. It's really funny, but not the tee hee kind.
So, I've listened and listened to those who worked there at Hanford and to those who work at the near by factories and the old nuclear plant about what to do when there is chemical danger. The last 'spill' I heard about, was a mile long 'pet'coke spill on the Columbia River that the ‘powers that be’ were not going to clean up. Well that one was a bit blatant, but what about the ones we don't hear about? Obviously they don't kill off our race as fast as I might have thought, but what about Chernobyl? That one was horrific. Anyway, I don't blame the sun, but I wonder about the mixture of sun and chemicals in our atmosphere. Maybe that is the warning to be awarded our interest.
No matter what, I am going to enjoy our natural gifts.
No matter what, I am going to be exposed to things beyond my control.
If I allow this to keep me from enjoying what I enjoy, that is the greater danger for me.
SO, here is what Mike Adams from Natural News has to say about it. Thanks Mike! Tick the title to be redirected to the PDF interview.
©Allisonians
The Healing Power of Sunlight
Did you know you have probably never been told the straight truth
about one of the most potent, yet overlooked, healing nutrients in the
world? In fact, medical groups have actually spent the past three
decades convincing you to avoid this "nutrient" by scaring you into
thinking it causes cancer.
But the truth is far different. Strong clinical evidence proves this
"nutrient" actually prevents and helps REVERSE an astounding number of
serious diseases (and I'll tell you all about it right here),
including:
* Prostate cancer
* Breast cancer
* Osteoporosis
* Depression
* Gum disease
* Schizophrenia
* Diabetes
Curious what this "nutrient" really is? Let me give you some hints:
It moves at the speed of light. You can feel it (it feels warm), but
you can't touch it. Without it, there would be no life whatsoever on
planet Earth. And it can't be patented or sold for profit.
What is it? Sunlight.
I'm talking about natural, healthy sunshine, which enables your body
to make its own lifesaving vitamin D. Today, I want to share with you
the secrets of its health benefits in a fascinating special report
called, "The Healing Power of Sunshine and Vitamin D." It's available
for downloading right now at:
http://www.naturalnews.com/SpecialReports/Sunlight.pdf
(Adobe Acrobat format) (cut and paste, or tick the title for this report)
This special report contains information you probably won't hear from
your doctor or dermatologist, because it goes against everything they
believe about sunlight. But recent research is proving that not
getting enough sunlight is extremely dangerous to your health because
it causes vitamin D deficiencies that promote chronic disease.
Seeking out sunlight in safe, reasonable doses, on the other hand,
does wonders for your health and may, in fact, render all sorts of
conventional medical therapies irrelevant. Again, you can get the full
story in this fascinating special report right now:
http://www.naturalnews.com/SpecialReports/Sunlight.pdf
(Adobe Acrobat format) (cut and paste, or tick the title for this report)
This special report features an interview with Dr. Michael Holick,
one of the world's leading experts on vitamin D and sunlight. In "The
Healing Power of Sunlight," he discusses his fascinating research.
You'll learn things like:
* How vitamin D deficiencies have been directly linked to several
types of cancer.
* In a study of African-American, Latino, and Caucasian women who had
just given birth, 76% were deficient in vitamin D and 81% of the
infants were deficient.
* A study in Finland showed that infants who were deficient in
vitamin D had an 80% increased risk of developing Type-2 diabetes as
an adult.
* 32% of students and doctors in Boston are deficient in vitamin D by
the end of winter.
* 40% to 60% of elderly people are at risk for vitamin D deficiency.
In "The Healing Power of Sunshine and Vitamin D," Dr. Holick also
explains little-known facts about sunshine and vitamin D. In this
special report, you'll learn:
* How proper nutrition helps you avoid sunburn without using chemical
sunscreens
* What the right amount of sunlight is for your body
* How vitamin D deficiencies cause prostate cancer, breast cancer,
osteoporosis and other diseases
* The true cause of asthma and why antihistamines only conceal the
symptoms of the disease rather than treating its cause
* How to calculate how much sunlight you need based on your ancestry
and current geographical location
* Seasonal Affective Disorder: how to treat it with sunlight exposure
* Why you can't get enough vitamin D from diet alone
* Why U.K. dermatologists support more sun exposure, but the U.S.
dermatology association refuses to change its stance
* How a lack of vitamin D may contribute to schizophrenia
* Why it is harder to absorb adequate amounts of calcium without
sufficient vitamin D
Take advantage of this information right now. It's "must-have"
knowledge that no person should go without. This information has
literally changed my health and my life, and I believe it can change
yours as well.
Get it now at:
http://www.naturalnews.com/SpecialReports/Sunlight.pdf
(Adobe Acrobat format) (cut and paste, or tick the title for this report)
To your health,
- Mike Adams, The Health Ranger
Sunday, March 28, 2010
BUTTER- IMPORTANT !!! Naturally, or more close to natural than margarine anyway.
This was emailed to me. Interestingly enough the Mayo Clinic says quite the opposite. So you will have to decide for yourself. Will research, it's on my list. I, myself, like butter, and oliver oil. Use it sparingly which ever you use. Allisonian
Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys.. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back..
It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings..
DO YOU KNOW.. The difference between margarine and butter?
Read on to the end...gets very interesting!
Both have the same amount of calories.
Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams; compared to 5 grams for margarine.
Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.
Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.
Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few and
only because they are added!
Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods.
Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years .
And now, for Margarine..
Very High in Trans fatty acids.
Triples risk of coronary heart disease .
Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)
Increases the risk of cancers up to five times..
Lowers quality of breast milk.
Decreases immune response.
Decreases insulin response.
And here's the most disturbing fact.... THIS IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!
Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC.... and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT
These facts alone were enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).
You can try this yourself:
Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it open in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will notice a couple of things:
No flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)
it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value ; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic . Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?
Pass the BUTTER PLEASE~~~
Friday, March 26, 2010
Oh, One More Thing, and Then I HAVE To Go
Nature Photo of the Week: The Food Chain
Courtesy of; NonProfitBlogs & Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park
Didn’t your mother ever tell you to eat with your mouth closed? This hungry pelican was snapped by Flickr user glasshalffull91 at Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park in Gainesville,…
ticking the title will redirect you there for the full article.
TGIF
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SOURDOUGH STARTER with WILD YEAST
Wild yeasts exist in the air around you and to some extent on the wheat berries. There are wild yeasts on grapes (unsulphured) and apples and other fruits. It is those wild yeasts which are 'captured' to make a sourdough starter. The process takes from 3 to 5 days. I wish I had specific amounts for you, but you could start with 1/4 to 1/2 cup of flour and mix in enough warm (not hot) water to make a thin paste. DO NOT make it too soupy. That, in fact, is the trick to a good starter, according to the French bread makers, and I think they should know. And after you've fooled around with the flour and water thing, you might wish to branch out into adding those unsulphured grapes, apples, sour milk, etc as a catalyst in order to capture other strains of yeast. Each of these strains has a slightly different taste. In fact if you move to another area, you might end up with a starter that produces an entirely different flavor. For instance, San Francisco sourdough bread is well known and has a distinct taste due to the wild strains in the air there. On day one you mix the flour and water (and add any catalysts to encourage fermentation) and place in a warm spot. After 3 days, the dough should be moist, inflated, and slightly sour. More flour and water is added (mixed in) and left to sit in a warm spot. After 2 days the process is repeated. Then the next day it is done again. Note the order: 3 days, 2 days, 1 day. At this point you should be able to make a loaf of bread using part of the starter and adding back what you took out in the form of more flour and water. Rule of thumb: Use about 10% starter to size of loaf. In the case of a 2 lb loaf this is a bit over 3 oz of starter (3.2 to be exact). For a 1 lb loaf 1.5 oz would be used. A book that describes this process in great detail is The Village Baker by Joe Ortiz, copyright 1993, published by Ten Speed Press, Berkley CA. If it's not still in print, try the used books stores, that's where I got mine. Or try your local library. If they don't have it, they might be able to get it for you. ©2008 by Ernestina Parziale
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