@iylablue Sending you all our love from New Zealand. I think of you so often these days. I can only imagine how heartbreaking it is to be wayfaring this physical plane without your beautiful mom but I hope you feel her spirit and light encircling you whenever you need it the most. ❤️
Beauty is subversive in a culture that worships death and disorder. We can waste our breath pointing at the cesspools or turn to what’s beautiful and reflect it — articulate it — as a daily practice. This can be done quietly, too. The effect ripples outward.
Once again I find that I'm among the five or six people on a packed plane who care to look out the window at views unavailable to humankind for almost all of our history on earth
In my defense she just asked me the following questions rapid fire -
How do we make gummy bears?
Why when you eat a lot of salt, it’s actually spicy?
How many airplanes do we need to take to get to Hawaii?
When I’m scrolling on my phone (always) and my 4 y.o asks me something (constantly) and I reply vaguely she calls me out by saying “fake words!” She’s 100% correct.
@sariazout I would have the notifications only be reminders/prompts about interacting with nature. Closely examine a flower petal, gaze at a cloud for 60 seconds etc.
I have a huge respect for people who build. The default condition of things is chaos because the world is entropic. If left alone, things deteriorate. It takes conscious effort to slow that down, let alone swim upstream and build against it.
Everyone needs a method of cultivating extreme stillness. It’s the only state of being that produces good decisions. Epiphanies and sudden moments of clarity are all born from periods of intense peace; the whispers of intuition can only be heard when your mental space is silent.
What I'll always remember is how PM Jacinda Ardern's leadership lead to New Zealand banning assault rifles and military-style semi-automatic weapons in just SIX days after the Christchurch mosque attacks. No greater example of what going beyond thoughts and prayers looks like.
Hydrangea flowers can be a good soil pH indicator.
Its blooms are pink to blue with many shades of lavenders in between, Pink Hydrangeas indicate soil that is alkaline to neutral. Blue flowers indicate soil that is acidic, The reverse of litmus paper