I’m sitting at my desk eating raw chocolate torte and trying to work out how I can get all my work squeezed into the first half of the week so that I can go and play at Big Chill this weekend. The line up looks super awesome and I’m very excited about going but it does mean a few hurdles to leap before Friday.
We have just two weeks left to finish the October edition of The Green Parent – it’s looking splendid already and there’s heaps of diverse, exciting articles in there but quite a lot still to be written so am beavering away while my girls are at Forest School for a week.
The pressures have been soothed considerably by some luscious raw chocolate torte made by a gorgeous friend of mine who has become our Raw Food Mistress. She supplies incredible cake, crackers and bread for us each week, all bursting with vitality and goodness and handmade with love and intregrity. It’s such a brill arrangement – I can’t quite believe it!
Had an amazing weekend – got struck by powerful cleansing energies on Saturday and cleaned out the kitchen cupboards putting together a box of non vibrant foods to freecycle and setting up a cupboard for high vibrational foods such as superfoods and the like. Filled it with crystals too – feels really good and a little bit out there. He, he! Also had the last session of my year long yoga course – it was amazing and really beautiful. Sad to leave but also a really opening experience as I have many new friends as a result. One lent me a beautiful binding of the Upanishads, which I’m looking forward to getting stuck into once this issue is finished. There was lots of talk on the yoga course yesterday about Eat, Pray, Love – I read this recently and really enjoyed it. Elizabeth Gilbert is a talented writer and it’s a heart warming, inspirational read.
This morning the postman delivered some gorgeous organic balms from The Green Grocery. The Face and Neck Daily Treatment will apparently reduce fine wrinkles and make facial skin plumper and healthier. It’s got one of my favourite essential oils, vertiver in it and plenty of rosehip oil to help firm the skin. I’m going to try it out tonight and with any luck will get mistaken for a cool twenty something on the dance floor at Big Chill this weekend. Also received a magical book called Environmental Arts Therapy and the Tree of Life, which explores the year in terms of the Celtic calendar and how to create art and ritual to mark the turning year. The chapter on August begins with a description of the first harvest, Lammas; it encourages readers to cultivate gratitude by collecting first fruits. “Gather some around you,” writes Ian Siddons Heginworth, “a hazelnut in your pocket, a crab apple by your bed, and ash key slipped into your diary. Every time you see or touch them, give thanks for whatever you can think of. Family, health, love, new opportunitities, even the harsh lessons learned, there can be much that we take for granted. The more we give thanks for what we have the more we invite life to bless us.” So true! What are you thankful for today?
By the way the beautiful picture of the Bhagavad Gita that I have chosen to illustrate today’s post is from Hermandadblanca’s photostream on flickr.
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