Tag: good living
member name: Julie L.
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April 30, 2008 07:26 AM EDT --
Spring seems always to be one step ahead of me. Last week I noticed some of my bees frantically flying around in search of space. It has been a warm spring and they have been industriously reproducing . . .
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July 06, 2008 05:06 AM EDT --
If you've been a faithful regular consumer of tofu and now are mortified by the finding that regular consumption of tofu may raise the risk of memory loss, take heart. As always with studies . . .
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May 14, 2009 02:01 AM EDT --
Hello dear friends at Gather.
It has occurred to me recently that what many of us our doing here at Gather is helping one another to learn to live. That can sound patronising but isn't given the . . .
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April 18, 2009 04:13 AM EDT --
Up on the hill overlooking my new neighborhood in a field that hasn't been plowed for centuries, I close my eyes and greet the morning. The noise of the traffic from the main road below . . .
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May 04, 2008 03:47 AM EDT --
Everywhere I step on my island at the moment a salad is waiting. Virgin green leaves that have just unfolded and not yet been toughened by age and the heat of the summer are first class ingredients . . .
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May 13, 2008 09:00 AM EDT --
Living on an enchanted island in Scandinavia is a paradise in the spring; that is, until the birch and grasses begin to bloom. For years, I could barely open my eyes when I awoke to the symphony . . .
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September 04, 2008 06:22 AM EDT --
Who could resist the urge to slip on those running shoes after watching Usain Bolt jog over the finish line at this summer's Olympics? There is a certain freedom in it, an ancient memory of something . . .
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May 16, 2008 03:41 AM EDT --
Out on Bird Island a plump goose perches and broods over the plight of motherhood. "For how much longer will I have to sit here waiting for these young ones to hatch?", she wonders. . . .
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June 26, 2008 03:06 AM EDT --
Taking care of the environment is a vital dimension of personal wellbeing. This has always been true although only in the 21st century has it become a mainstream idea. As with all big ideas, the . . .
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June 26, 2008 03:17 AM EDT --
The soft summer breeze is blowing luxury in through the open window in my island study. My bees are buzzing in the bushes just below, reminding me that summer in a true Scandinavian sense is not just . . .
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October 21, 2008 11:10 AM EDT --
The Canada geese on the horizon ruffle their wings in preparation for flight. Suddenly the leader of the flock lets out an unmistakable cry and in a miracle of natural engineering, unfolds his . . .
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July 26, 2008 03:49 AM EDT --
The waves lap gently up onto the shore and lightly kiss my wooden kayak which rests on the stony beach. A single hanging birch branch sways lightly in the wind like a dancer waking up to a new day. The . . .
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August 06, 2008 06:08 AM EDT --
It is still summer holiday time, but nature has already turned its sights toward the autumn. Yesterday as the wind spattered rain against the window panes, and we watched our warm summer lake water being . . .
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September 26, 2008 09:15 AM EDT --
Wellness seems like one of those things that we have the privilege of worrying about when times are good. When they aren't, it gets tossed on that pile of irrelevancies that fly out the window when . . .
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July 17, 2008 06:12 AM EDT --
The forested small islands of Lake Mälaren, my home in Sweden, have turned a deep, dark green as though to call my attention to them. "Your frivolity on the water will end and . . .
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August 17, 2008 03:51 AM EDT --
Yesterday I made cloudberry jam. "What's that?" or "so what", you might quite legitimately say. Let me explain. For some years now, I have walked past the jars of cloudberry preserve . . .
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