Being grateful

 Everyone needs oxygen. We all need water. People can go without some things but not others. Being ungrateful can come with an extreme over indulgence. Many have appreciated the abundance of food in markets, the warmth of a Summer beach, the fresh rainfall and the pretty butterflies. Find the small things to love and cherish as much as greater things. 

Inspirational quotes:

Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have." - Sanchita Pandey

"Appreciate what you have been given and you will be promoted higher." 

"The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely." — Louisa May Alcott

“Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” — Doris Day

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Keep cool with plants

 

There are many plants that can help during a heatwave or a time of Summer with drought and hot weather. If it feels like there's no air, or even when you're so thirsty and dehydrated, you need to take plenty of fluids. Water is a need, as instinctive traits urge to drink water and cold fluids such as fruit juices, cocktails, fizzy drinks, ice creams and so on. There's plants who can help.

Snake plants, often indoors can give a pleasant atmosphere and moisten the air. It can also help to purify the humid indoors and clean out floating toxins in the atmosphere, therefore reducing mould. It offers a cool oxygen during night time and helps during sleep.

Rubber plant or Ficus elastica can sooth heat indoors and create a more subtle relaxing home, calm and airy. 

Weeping fig is an indoor tree that manages the conditions of the air and reduces toxins. It creates a pleasant airy environment with a little coolness. 

Aloe vera is from a hot dry region and so can control indoor temperatures.

Lavender is an outdoor growing flowering plant that tolerates severe heat. 

More plants to have during Summer includes Rosemary, Thyme, Sage, Oregano, Chives, Basil, Dill, Sedums, succulents, cacti, palms, Dianthus and Chinese evergreen. Most of all keeping in the shade of trees can keep you cool.

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Happy Summer!

 

Wishing everyone everywhere a really blessed beautiful happy positive Summer solstice!

Love,

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From the soil

 

The envious and the jealous are defined by the colour green. The angry are associated with red. Sadness and loss are often blue or grey. But there is a shade that means many things instead. This is yellow, a blazing bright hue, dancing and sparkling like the sun and stars and moon, with gold written all over it. The same that is linked to happiness, wisdom, wealth and also disease, fever, decay and age. 

It's not the colour we want to find in snow or on our pearly teeth. Yet yellow brings out positivity and also knowledge. This is the colour you don't want to see when there is tension and even war. Positive yellow things include yellow coloured gemstones, flowers, animals, fruit and even gold nuggets. Negative yellow things are illnesses, rot, danger, warnings and dreaded radiation signs. While yellow can mean happiness, it is also the colour of sands of a dried barren landscape.

Humans can't see the more vibrant visible colours that exist, so to us, yellow is just one colour although it has many different shades. In the actual real world, there isn't just one colour yellow but many different colours. All we see and recognise that a flower looks yellow but another species, such as birds or reptiles, might see different colours of the same individual flower instead. Humans base knowledge on the five main senses and also with the colours. 

Humans cannot see infra red or ultra violet, there are so many things invisible to the human eyes. Also humans can't sense the Earth's magnetic field. We are unable to hear infrasound but animals can. Many more examples such as humans can't detect the electric field given off by other living beings. This is why we should never be cut off from the earthly wisdom of nature.  

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