May 15th, 2012 
Frances Lilou Mace has given us another exceptional interview with famous glass artist Narcissus Quagliata, and the creator of El Santuario at Valle de Bravo (two miles outside of Mexico City), Michel Domit. www.juicylivingtour.com www.elsantuario.com These two creators, with Lilou Mace, treat us to a remarkable interview which, if we carefully and deeply listen, will change [...]
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No Comments » February 1st, 2012 Frances You don’t go to bed with the nightly news on your mind, do you? Uh-oh, that would be like preparing for a night of insomnia, or a restless sleep. Why would you want that? Tell me you’d never think of going to sleep with the nightly news in your consciousness, or anything else of that [...]
Posted in A Book, Or Two, Or More, A Conversation, A Helping Hand, A State Of Mind, Can I? Yes, I can., Healing, Listening, Nature, Stories, The Heart, The Night Tags: cheryl simone, glenview lake, India, inner engineering, Insomnia, midnights with the mystic, nc mountains (rainforest), sadhguru jaggi vasudev No Comments » January 10th, 2012 Frances What can we do for body mind spirit this year that will have a permanent positive impact on our lives, and on Planet Earth? Perhaps we can start with detoxing. Have you heard of the book CLEAN by Dr. Alejandro Junger? It’s an exquisitely-written book having all that’s needed in the way of information, including [...]
Posted in A Book, Or Two, Or More, A Helping Hand, A State Of Mind, A Step At A Time, Can I? Yes, I can., Care Of Self, Food, Healing, Meditation, Nature, Stories, The Marketplace of Possibilities, The World Tags: bloated, depressed, detoxing, dr. alejandro junger, headaches, stressed, tired No Comments » November 13th, 2011 Frances When I was in Boquete, Panama a friend I’d met there took me to visit a woman who produced the most luscious raspberries I’d ever seen. We visited her garden, and then went into her large kitchen where jellies, jams, and sauces were everywhere, ready for the marketplace. This is the way she kept her [...]
Posted in A Book, Or Two, Or More, A Conversation, A State Of Mind, Nature, Shopping Tags: ants, bounce sheets, cayenne pepper flakes, hair loss, hot stuff by jessica b. harris, mice, peppermint oil, raspberries, soap, squirrels, the sunfood diet success system by david wolfe, whole cloves No Comments » November 11th, 2011 Frances When I go into Whole Foods and see the words, “seedless strawberries” and “seedless grapes” and “seedless watermelons” and “seedless raisins” etc. I wonder what exactly is going on with the altering of our food. Those “hybrid foods” are full of unnatural sugars, chemicals, and pesticides. They have no nutritional worth. The people who have [...]
Posted in Food, Imagine, Nature, Paying Attention, Shopping, The World Tags: "seedless" chemicals, devoid of nutrition, high in sugars, pesticides, the greedy ones No Comments » October 10th, 2011 Frances Many of us have just begun to realize the huge benefits of spices, herbs, and plants and allow them into our domain. They’ve always been there for us to learn about and use, though it seems many of us weren’t ready. However, judging from all the information available to us in this decade, we are [...]
September 16th, 2011 Frances In her book, The Soul of Money, Lynne Twist wrote: “Mother Teresa once noted what she called ‘the deep poverty of the soul’ that afflicts the wealthy, and had said that the poverty of the soul in America was deeper than any poverty she had seen anywhere on earth.’” www.soulofmoney.org On her blog, 3 Keys [...]
Posted in A Book, Or Two, Or More, A Movie, A State Of Mind, A Step At A Time, Care Of Self, Healing, Meditation, Nature, Paying Attention, Peace, The Heart Tags: carmen harra, deepak chopra, dr. zhi gang sha, eckhart tolle, eknath easwaran, healing, higher levels of consciousness, james allen, jean houston, karma, ken ichikawa, lynne twist, money, mother teresa, negativity, suffering, the burmese harp, tulku thondup No Comments » December 19th, 2008 Frances New England’s 2007/2008 winter was one most New Englanders would like to forget. Shoveling rooftops, driveways, and sidewalks over and over again, hearing about roofs caving in, and broken bones from falls was no picnic. Now winter 2008/2009 came with a bang in the form of an ice storm. Last week my sister and her [...]
April 17th, 2008 Frances Last night I watched a PBS documentary called ILLICIT (Illicit: “an illegitimate seizure of power” www.dictionary.com), and as I watched I became increasingly saddened. And I wondered: Why are so many people using all kinds of methods to fill their pockets with millions and millions, at times billions, of dollars at the expense of human [...]
March 26th, 2008 Frances City people often want more of nature in their daily lives – trees, valleys, a sea, hills, a mountain, sand, a river, fields, stars (which are often hidden from view by bright city lights). This longing for nature seems natural. Some city people get away “to the country” whenever they can. Others can’t. There are [...]
