The healing properties and potential of nature have always been known, but are finding a “comeback” these days, with hip terms like forest bathing now being recommended from psychiatrists’ couches. The book “Nature Cure” presents a personal re-discovery of the benefits of nature. Richard Mabey is one of the UK’s finest nature writers. The first… Continue reading “Nature Cure” book review by Denzil Walton
What’s it like to foster parent butterflies? Eliza Waters fills us in colorfully …
The first of the monarchs (Danaus plexippus) I have been fostering on my kitchen counter this past month hatched today and it’s a female. Like any proud parent, I think she is perfect and beautiful! I feel hopeful for her future, but it will be a long road for her, fraught with obstacles. After fattening up on coneflower, Joe Pye weed, zinnias and other favorite flower nectars, she sails 2,500 miles to the Michoacan Mountains in Mexico.
Overcoming human activity such as speeding autos, loss of nectar feeding habitats, as well as excessive cold, drought and predation will be daunting. If she reaches her winter roost site in the few remaining acres of oyamel pine trees (which are cut for their valuable timber by the local people), she must safely survive possible severe cold or snowstorms, predatory birds and mice that take advantage of the bounty of millions of clustered…
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A wonderfully inspiring blogger, Ipuna, made me smile with her heartwarming post — hope it does it the same for you 🙂 …
Have you ever had just a blah day?
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Smile!
“Fake it ’til you make it.” Smiling puts you in a better mood. Media credit: Pinterest
Smile!
Smiling decreases stress! Media credit: Pinterest
Smile!
Smiling is contagious. Media credit: Pinterest.
I hope eveyone smiles more today! Have a wonderful day!
Thanks, Jane for the smile challenge.
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How much do you know about Kenya? One of the zillion things I love about blogging is how it makes the world friendlier and smaller. Here lisalemuya shares about her beloved Kenya …
I have noticed most of my followers are not from my native country and that’s great having different views from all over the world is a breath of fresh air i get to know a bit of their cultures and they can learn a bit of mine.Here it goes…
I come from Kenya a country on the eastern side of Africa
we are made up of roughly 42 different cultural communities who have different languages(i know crazy but we manage).This makes us diverse and in a way very accommodating, actually if you compare us to our neighbouring countries we are very cosmopolitan. Apart from the 42 tribes we have various other non natives from all over the world we have expatriates from all over the world who fell in love with the country and decided to be citizens for good .There is a considerable indian population mostly they came to…
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I thought a public library was heaven on earth until fellow blogger Parul Joshi posted this. Check out her post that follows, and then here for more how it was built …
Have you ever felt like going to a secluded place far away from the usual raucous and monotony of your life? Have you ever wanted oh so desperately to have a place somewhere in the lap of nature where you could engulf yourself in the refreshing aura of what the nature has to offer? Have you ever wanted to close your eyes only to open them to find yourself in a room full of books stacked all over?
Well, there is one such place on our planet earth. Yes it is true that we have our own heaven on earth beckoning us; waiting to wrap its cool soothing arms around our withering souls. And yes this place is indeed in the very depths of the nature.
It is Hemmelig Rom or “secret room”, a secluded private library in upstate…
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