Rainbows: Healing Often after a rain in the summer comes a rainbow. The rainbow is a reminder that there is hope and healing after a storm and also a reminder that sometimes you need a storm before you can have a rainbow. The rainbow contains the entire spectrum of light, colors that also mirror the […]
Archive | August, 2013
14 Days of Summer, a Meditation:
Day Five
Rain: Replenishment Rain is essential to all our survival. Sometimes it forces us to stop our activities and just rest and replenish ourselves, just as it replenishes the earth. Think about it: We’ve all heard the statement “what goes up must come down.” But what comes down also goes back up again. Rain is the […]
14 Days of Summer, a Meditation:
Day Four
Clouds: Dreaming You can lie on the ground and look at the clouds at any time of year, but there is something about summertime—the warmth, the leisure—that makes it perfect. Clouds are like dreams, fleeting, changing, hard to hold onto but beautiful and fascinating. I’ve been told on good authority that the Aborigines call their […]
14 Days of Summer, a Meditation:
Day Three
Sunshine: Unconditional Love For some people, summer is a chance to complain about the heat or lock themselves into air-conditioned habitats. But our bodies need sunshine to survive and be healthy—in fact we wouldn’t exist without the sun! The sun shines on everyone with no regard for race, wealth, fashion sense, or religion. The sun […]
14 Days of Summer, A Meditation:
Day Two
Fruit: Nourishment Summer is the season of delicious, amazing fruit, which is the direct result of the desire of flowers. Is there a fruit that doesn’t start as a flower first? What seems frivolous from our standards (flowers everywhere!) is truly a purposeful and wonderful gift of nourishment, for people, for animals, for the earth. […]
14 Days of Summer, A Meditation:
Day One
Flowers: Desire Summer is the season of flowers. We enjoy them for their outrageous beauty. We give them as gifts to show gratitude, love, and appreciation. But why do flowers exist? Why do they bloom in summer? Flowers are nature’s way of expressing desire—the desire to attract pollinators, the desire to reproduce, the desire to […]
My 14 Days of Summer, A Meditation
It’s no secret that summer is my favorite season. I was on vacation and so much enjoying the clear ocean water and the Rosa rugosa, as well as my children’s awe at the Rosa rugosa “hips”—”Mom, what are those things?”—when this idea for a series of blogs came to me. Not just a celebration of […]
The Cheapest Ways to Stay Cool
by guest bloggers from the EPA’s ENERGYSTAR program This new infographic from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR is here just in time to help you deal with the late-summer heat. We know that staying cool and keeping energy bills in control are both priorities, so we’re offering consumers information on how much energy […]
Scratch
Raised on America’s first organic farm, Scratch author Maria Rodale learned how to make everyday favorites from, yes, scratch — the way you remember them; the way they turn out best.
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Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment.
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