Welcome to day 19 of 🎃 31 Days of Halloween 🎃 my version of #Blogtober. Today I’m sharing 21 of the Most Beautiful Haunted Homes …
Quote: John Cusack Fans
The sudden realisation that John is old enough to be your dad…(not my edit)
Lol! Not for some of us older fans – at last advantages for those extra years!! :-))
Quote: Paulo Coelho
The world is changed by your example, not your opinion.
Paulo Coelho (via cosmofilius)
It’s Not All Bad
Believe it or not, the present is not as gloomy as you think
Please memorize the second one.
This is so important to me
Smallpox has killed approx. 500 million people, and the last documented diagnosis of it was in 1977.
🙂 nice to see some happy facts being spread around
Quote: Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold; when it is summer in the light and winter in the shade.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (via linatang)
Felt like this today! 😉
Quote: Martin Luther King Jr
We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Book Geek Quote #769
March 7, 1965: The first civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery began 50 years ago today. Demonstrators met with brutal force from state and local lawmen and footage of the violent clashes finally shifted public opinion. (Goodreads)
Feels like a far fetched fantasy at the moment 🙁
Philosophical Musings
cknd: I bet our entire universe is in a tiny glass jar placed neatly on a shelf in some alien child’s room as a science …
Quote: Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez, born 6 March 1927, died 17 April 2014
Artwork: Lisa Congdon
Uplifting, yes? 🙂
Photography: Day and Night Together!
Neat.
neat. neat?!?! youre looking at day and night AT THE SAME TIME, don you realize thats been completely impossible until like the past ten years. To be looking at this is straight up INSANE.
neat.
you fuckin kidding me
Neat.
Wow! This is amazing – if we can see this now imagine what our decendants will be able to see…
New Year Salutations – 2015
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.
So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever
I will use this quote from neil-gaiman every single year.
Book Geek Quote #681
(via bookgeekconfessions)
The Sun in X-Ray
The Sun in X rays from NuSTAR via NASA http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap141229.html
Breathtaking 🙂
Quote – Dr Seuss
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
Sometimes this can be very difficult to achieve but I am trying…
It’s Not Always Complicated, Really
It’s Not Always Complicated, Really
May 29, 2014 by lyonesse2710
AKA The Joy of Simples
While I was training at University for my degree in herbal medicine a few years ago, I found myself getting into the habit of using blends of herbs, ranging from 5 up to about 8 or 9 of them, which is absolutely fine, I hasten to add – I’ve made up a number of medicines with quite a few ingredients in, and 9 times out of 10 they do the job admirably, but recently I’ve noticed myself moving back towards using a much smaller number of herbs in larger quantities.
Recently it has been just one herb in doses varying from drops up to huge doses to shift short term infections, and I’ve rather favoured using blends of just three plants. I’ve been relearning my plants, one plant at a time, going right back to basics with them and delving into their botany, phytochemistry (something I was dreadful at while studying), their folklore, myths, legends, folk names, where they grow, when they flower, when they go to seed, and finally, their myriad medicinal uses. It really is absolutely fascinating, and the more I read and research and learn and get to know the plants in my garden, the more I realise just how huge an arsenal of plant medicines I have in just 20 or so plants.
The prime example of this recently was when, after giving a client complicated blends of herbs to clear up some horribly entrenched sinusitis, I finally, in desperation, suggested 10mls of Plantain (Plantago lanceolata) three to four times a day. Two days later I got a call to say the sinusitis had cleared up. So all my fancy, complicated blends of Goldenrod and Eyebright, Mullein leaf and Elderflower had done very little. It was the humble but beautiful Plantain leaf that did the yeoman’s work of clearing up an infection that has a reputation for being a bit of a pig to treat. It just goes to show that complicated is not always better – one plant is quite complicated enough, being a huge morass of chemical constituents always engaged in an elegant and intricate dance. Often blending more than one plant is like trying to put together at least two separate and complicated court dances, and hoping that noses would not be bloodied in the process!
Quote: What is magic?
i haven’t read of Phil Hine before but I love this.
Magic is not so much something which you do occasionally behind closed doors or in the space behind your closed eyes, but a way of living your life — a way of approaching the world you move through and everything in it.
— Phil Hine, Condensed Chaos (via chirotus)