Recently I was walking in a remnant - and I mean remnant - of forest near home and came across this ancient, well weathered log - hollowed out by the ravages of time and fire -providing a splendid home for animals. I felt as though Nature was observing me closely.

A mythic creature?

Wisdom of a Twelve Year Old

Twelve year old girl from Vancouver who silenced the world for 5 minutes ..speaking at UN Earth Summit 1992. Let's work for her words to be heard and appropriate actions taken
Severn Cullis-Suzuki speaking at UN Earth Summit 1992

Severn Cullis-Suzuki (born 1979) is an environmental activist, speaker, television host and author. Born to writer Tara Elizabeth Cullis and Canadian geneticist and environmental activist David Suzuki, Cullis-Suzuki received a B.Sc. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Yale University in 2002. She has spoken around the world about environmental issues, urging listeners to define their values, act with the future in mind, and take individual responsibility.

Nature's Majesty

Now for a little Segway

Driving through Tuscon in March 08 I had to stop for a
wonderful parade of twenty or so people riding segways.

Dean Kamen the inventor of the segway is a fascinating man.

Dean Kamen, born 1951, is an inventor, an entrepreneur and a tireless advocate for science and technology. His roles as inventor and advocate are intertwined -- his own passion for technology and its practical uses has driven his personal determination to spread the word about technology's virtues and by so doing to change the culture of the United States.

Dean's vast knowledge of the physical sciences, combined with his ability to integrate the fundamental laws of physics with the most modern technologies, has led to the development of breakthrough processes and products.

Dean's water purifying machine

Away From Her
Review by Margaret Pomeranz

The young Canadian actress Sarah Polley has ventured into the director’s chair with the adaptation of a short story by fellow countrywoman Alice Munro.

The film, AWAY FROM HER, is about a difficult time in the marriage of Fiona, (JULIE CHRISTIE), and Grant, (GORDON PINSENT).

Fiona, recognising the deterioration of her mind, takes matters into her own hands and moves to a rest home despite Grant’s misgivings.

He’s not allowed to see her for the first month. By the time he arrives she seems to have forgotten him and has become attached to another inmate Aubrey, (MICHAEL MURPHY).

This exquisite, delicate film has been beautifully handled by Polley. The performances are just sublime. OLYMPIA DUKAKIS plays Aubrey’s wife, with GORDON PINSENT so painfully conveying the anguish of a man who, in his darkest moments, wonders whether his wife’s alienation could stem from his own indiscretions when he was younger.

JULIE CHRISTIE has always had an elusive quality on screen and this quality suits Fiona’s character perfectly. She’s just beautiful.

This is a film that lingers in your mind, visually and emotionally. There’s a very intelligent and talented head operating in Polley who chose to make a film not about her own generation but about the passions, guilts, regrets and sadness of growing old.

10 Foods to Make You Happy

FEELING blue? Mung beans, lobster, turkey, asparagus, sunflower seeds, cottage cheese, pineapple, tofu, spinach and bananas could lift your spirits.

A diet high in tryptophan - an amino acid converted by the body into the feel-good chemical serotonin - can improve mood and wellbeing, pediatrician and natural health expert Caroline Longmore said.

The body cannot produce tryptophan so unless we get enough through our diets, we may suffer a deficiency, leading to low serotonin levels which are associated with mood disorders, anxiety, cravings and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

Terrific bean display seen at the Seattle Market.

Autumn at Celtic Gardens

After two months travelling we arrived home to a glorious autumn.
It hadn't rained while we were away and I'm happy to report that we've now
had glorious soaking rain for two days and nights AND it even snowed today!

Where The Blue meets The Aqua

I took hundreds of photographs while in the US and Mexico for eight weeks. This one is my most favourite of all as it speaks to me of the unlimited mysteries of the Sky and the Sea.

High up in the North, in the land called Svithjod, there stands a rock. It is a hundred miles high and a hundred miles wide. Once every thousand years a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen its beak.

When the rock has thus been worn away, then a single day of eternity will have gone by.

From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

“Out of the confusion of a crumbling society will emerge individuals who are touched by higher guidance. These will inevitably flow together with others of like inspiration, and a new quality of society will begin to form. This is the true adventure of our time”
Sir George Trevelyan, English Mystic and Futurist

First and Second Crop Circles of the UK Season

'It's a great start of the season with this seemingly simple design. Looking behind the curtain we get again amazing information about the Great Pyramid being the chief of the Platonic Solids so to say. This swirl is a basic code of the universe.' Waden Hill UK --- Forum ~ and now two in Italy. Second at Whitehorsehill

Into the Wild - directed by Sean Penn - now on DVD

There is plenty of sorrow to be found in “Into the Wild,” Sean Penn’s adaptation of the nonfiction bestseller by Jon Krakauer.

An enthusiastic reader (with a special affinity for Tolstoy and Jack London), Chris is in many ways the intellectual heir of 19th-century writer-naturalists like John Muir and especially Henry David Thoreau, whose uncompromising idealism — “rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth” — he takes as a watchword. His credo is perhaps most succinctly stated by Thoreau’s mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, who advised that “the ancient precept, ‘Know thyself,’ and the modern precept, ‘Study Nature,’ become at last one maxim.”

“When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn’t work any more, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual human – or a species – will either die or become extinct, OR rise above their conditioning through an extraordinary leap. This is the state of humanity now, and this is the challenge.”

Eckhart Tolle, Spiritual teacher and author of the best selling book ‘The Power of Now’

The importance of being creative
by Cate Blanchett and Julianne Schultz

Creativity is at the heart of every successful nation. It finds expression in great visual art, wonderful music, fabulous performances, stunning writing, gritty new productions and countless other mediums.

2020 Vision - Celtic Gardens

Save Seeds of Every Kind

Save Organic Seeds ~ a bountiful gift ~ share your seeds with others.
Teach your children to grow food and lots of extra for friends and animals.

Gorgeous Gifts:
Seeds, Seedlings, Fruit, Vegetables, Preserves, Home Cooked Meals,
Bushes, Trees, Flowers, Gardening Tools and Other Items for the Garden.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world
will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross