The food we eat should be tasty, nutritious and healthy. The way it is grown should help, not harm our environment. But can we really be confident that the fruit and vegetables bought from a supermarket meet these two simple criteria? Are we sure the levels of pesticides, insecticides and fungicides our food has been […]
Have you ever found yourself wondering how you can give a new lift to old favorites? Or worrying over how you can tempt those picky eaters? Try keeping a few sheets of frozen puff pastry in the freezer. Puff pastry is one of the most useful, and at the same time most overlooked, weapons in […]
The kitchen is the perfect place for making memories. When you spend time baking, cooking and enjoying meals with your family, you create happy memories you and your children will cherish forever. The benefits of preparing and enjoying food as a family are clear. You save money and eat healthier meals. You create opportunities to […]
If you’re ready to teach your children how to cook, here are some simple tips for teaching them the basics, and giving them skills that will last them a lifetime First of all, think safety. Any child that has to stand on a stool or chair in order to reach the stove is too young […]
Once, in a certain barnyard, at a certain time, there was born to a certain Mother Turkey, five little poults (baby turkeys). All the creatures of the barnyard came to the turkey pen to celebrate with Mother Turkey and to meet the new members of their community. “Oh!” they all exclaimed, “Look at them! Look […]
True Story by Terry Dobson, the first American Aikido Master Trained in Japan The train clanked and rattled through the suburbs of Tokyo on a drowsy spring after noon. Our car was comparatively empty, a few housewives and their kids, and I gazed absently at the drab houses and dusty hedgerows. At one station the […]
Love After Love The time will come when with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile to the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was yourself. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, […]
The oldest references to labyrinths go back to over 3,500 years ago. Now, over three millennia later, walking the labyrinth has become an astonishingly popular form of spiritual and emotional growth and healing.
DIVINE BEAUTY is a gentle but an urgent call to awaken.
“The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them; learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.”
