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Baking soda has long been used in cooking to help make finished products light and fluffy and to leaven bread. It has also taken the spotlight in recent years as a natural, chemical-free cleaning product for the house. It has also long been used as a way to remove food odors from the fridge, but did you know that you can also use baking soda in the garden? Yep, that's right.
The powerful all-natural cleaning agent can also be used in the garden. Expert gardeners have been using the versatile ingredient in a variety of green cleaning methods and to eliminate many harmful pests.
Baking soda is made entirely of sodium bicarbonate and is a highly alkaline substance that you can use in your garden as a natural cleaning agent, a soil amendment, to care for plants, to control weeds and pests, to treat fungal diseases, and so much more. Here are 20 fantastic ways that you can use baking soda in your garden.
Baking Soda in the Garden
If you are one of the millions of households that have switched to green living, then baking soda has become an integral part of your life. Along with being a fantastic green cleaner, it has dozens of uses around the house and in your garden. If you are serious about tending an organic garden, then baking soda should be one of your top tools to use throughout the growing season.
Baking Soda Cleans Plant Leaves
Plants need photosynthesis to survive. To help all your plants make the most out of the sunshine, they do receive; you need to keep their leaves clean. You can do this by lightly wiping them with a sponge or cloth that is dampened with a diluted solution of water and baking soda. Add a half a teaspoon of baking soda to a liter of filtered water to make this gentle cleaning product.
Gives Your Plants a Boost in Your Garden
If your plants are beginning to look a little listless, you can use baking soda to give them a little boost. The following recipe can be used to water your plants to perk them up again.
Baking Soda in the Garden
- One-gallon filtered water
- One teaspoon baking soda
- One teaspoon Epsom salts
- ½ teaspoon ammonia
Add all the ingredients to a large bucket. Stir to dissolve the baking soda and Epsom salt. Pour the mixture on your plants every month to perk up all your plants. Roses especially like this treatment.
Baking Soda Stimulates Blooming
Begonia, Geraniums, and Hydrangeas are all plants that like the soil to be more alkaline. Since baking soda is an alkaline ingredient, you can help stimulate their blooming by watering them monthly with a solution of one tablespoon baking soda and two quarts water. Feeding these plants every month with this special tonic will have them enthusiastically blooming all season long.
Keep Fresh Cut Flowers Longer
Mixing a tablespoon of baking soda with two quarts of water is a great way to keep your fresh cut flowers fresh for longer. For the best results, you want to change the solution every couple of days.
Adding Baking Soda Will Produce Sweeter Tomatoes
To make the dirt around your tomato plants less acidic, use baking soda. To get sweet tasting tomatoes, add a little Epsom salt as well.
Just sprinkle some baking soda over the soil that surrounds your tomato plant and then water. Having soil around your tomato plants that are less acidic means you'll have less acidic tomatoes. For plants and where you need a more acidic soil, consider using coffee grounds in your garden.
Soil Testing and Amendment in the Garden
You can do a simple pH test on your soil with some baking soda. Your plant's roots absorb the minerals found in the ground through their roots. If your soil is too acidic or alkaline it can hamper this process. You can conduct a simple home experiment using baking soda and vinegar to test your soil's pH levels.
Use Baking Soda To Test Garden Soil
- Half a cup of vinegar
- Half a cup of water
- One tablespoon baking soda
- Two soil samples from your garden
Place the two soil samples into a couple of small cups. In one of the cups, add the vinegar. If the soil bubbles, then your soil is alkaline.
This means your soil has a pH level of seven or more. If it doesn't bubble, then you can use the other soil sample to test the acidity. Add the baking soda to the water and then pour the solution into the second cup. If the soil bubbles with the mixture, then you have acidic soil with a pH level of seven or below.
If the test reveals that your soil is acidic, you can amend the problem by sprinkling baking soda over your soil just before you water. This should help to reduce the acidity of your soil. Continue to test your soil weekly until it no longer bubbles when exposed to water and baking soda.
Use Baking Soda to Prevent Fungal Disease
While baking soda won't kill fungus on your plants, it will create a pH condition that is hostile to the growth of the fungus. To prevent fungus from growing, you'll need to do the following.
Fungal Disease Prevention
- One-liter warm water
- One teaspoon baking soda
- A few drops liquid dish soap
Combine the water, baking soda, and liquid dish soap in a small bowl. Mix well to dissolve the baking soda. Add the solution to a spray bottle. Spray the top and bottoms of the leaves in the morning, when the weather is cold, so the leaves have ample time to dry.
Treat Powdery Mildew With a Baking Soda Solution
If fungus and mildew have already set in on your plants, you can still treat it with a stronger solution that contains baking soda. Here's a recipe for an all-natural mildew treatment for your plants.
Baking Soda Mildew Spray
- One-gallon water
- One tablespoon baking soda
- One tablespoon vegetable oil
- One tablespoon liquid dish soap
Combine the ingredients in a spray bottle. Shake to mix well. Spray the affected plants every week on overcast days. Spraying this mixture on your plants during the heat of the day will cause them to burn. This mixture is especially useful for squash, zinnias, lilacs, and cucumbers.
Natural Gardening: Treat Tomato Disease
To prevent and treat fungal infections in your tomato plants, make a solution of aspirin and baking soda. Spraying your plants with the following solution will help to stop leaf spot and early blight from taking hold.
Natural Tomato Treatment
- Two gallons water
- Two aspirin
- Two tablespoons baking soda
In a spray bottle, combine all the ingredients. Shake thoroughly to ensure the aspirin and baking soda have dissolved. Once the aspirin has dissolved, spray your tomato plants with the treatment.
Create an Organic Garden Spray from Baking Soda
The following all-natural recipe is excellent for treating and maintaining a variety of plant pests and conditions. When used correctly, it serves as a homemade leaf miner sprayand repels spider mites, aphids, black spot fungus, and powdery mildew.
Natural Organic Pest Control Spray With Baking Soda
- One-gallon warm water
- 3 to five drops Superthrive solution
- One tablespoon baking soda
- One tablespoon fish oil
- One tablespoon liquid dish soap
- Two tablespoons ultra-fine horticultural oil
Mix all the ingredients and pour into a spray bottle. Spray your plants down with water first to knock off the beneficial insects first, as this solution will kill them. Every month, in the late evening, spray your plants with the solution.
Combat Spider Mites and Aphids Around Your Plants
Spider mites and aphids can be extremely detrimental to your plants. Spider mites suck the contents from the leaves of your plant, draining them of their nutrients. You can use baking soda as a mild deterrent to combat these pesky insects. The best part of the following solution is that it won't harm the beneficial insects in your garden.
Spider Mites and Aphids Spray
- Two cups of water
- 2/3 cup olive oil
- One teaspoon baking soda
Blend the ingredients together and pour into a spray bottle. Carefully spray the solution onto the affected areas every couple of days until the spider mites and aphids are gone.
Baking Soda Will Eliminate Harmful Insect Infestations
Don't let harmful insects infest your garden and ruin your plants. With this simple combination of ingredients, you can rid your plants of pesky insect infestations quickly.
Baking Soda Garden Insect Infestation Recipe
- One-gallon warm water
- One tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- One tablespoon baking soda
- 12 drops liquid dish soap
Combine the ingredients in a spray bottle. Shake well to dissolve the baking soda and mix the ingredients. Spray on your plants every three days until the insects disappear.
Follow up weekly, spraying your plants to prevent reinfestation. For a more long-term approach to fight insects around your plants consider using diatomaceous earth in your garden.
Natural Ant Killer Baking Soda
A natural ant killer, baking soda when combined with powdered sugar creates a fatal bait. Mix equal amounts of the ingredients together and sprinkle the mixture over the ant hill. When the ants eat the ingredients, they carry it back to their nests, killing the ants within.
The sugar is used to attract the ants, while the baking soda is what will kill them. Make sure you use powdered sugar and not granulated sugar as the ants will be able to pick out the granulated sugar, leaving the baking soda behind.
Kill Gnats In Your Garden
If your yard has piles of leaves or you have a compost pile, then you probably have a problem with gnats. Just like hydrogen peroxide for plants, baking soda works perfectly to keep gnats away from your garden.
To get rid of gnats you can use four tablespoons of baking soda with a gallon of water and a teaspoon of biodegradable soap. Spray or pour the mix over your pile of leaves or compost to kill off the gnats.
The Perfect Organic Insect Repellent
This recipe makes an organic insect repellent concentrate. When you are ready to use, add two tablespoons of the concentrate into a cup of warm water.
Insect Repellent Solution
- One teaspoon baking soda
- 1/3 cup mustard oil
Add the ingredients to a glass or plastic container with a tight-fitting lid. Stir the ingredients to mix. Place the top on the jar and store at room temperature.
When ready to use mix two tablespoons of the dry mixture to one cup warm water in a plastic or glass spray bottle. Shake to mix. Spray the solution around any area where you want to get rid of unwanted bugs.
Use Baking Soda to Eliminate Ground Dwelling Pests
Gardens tend to attract ground dwelling pests like roaches and slugs.
To eliminate the silverfish, slugs, and roaches that like to hide out in your garden and feed on your plants, sprinkle a small amount of baking soda lightly around the soil in your garden. Alternatively, use neem oil for plants to get rid of slugs. Let it dry, reapplying after it rains.
Sprinkle Some Baking Soda to Kill Slugs
Slugs tend to eat and destroy the plants in your garden. A little baking soda can kill off these unwanted garden wreckers quickly.
Sprinkle these slimy creatures with some baking soda to kill them off. Be careful not to get the baking soda on your plants as it will burn the leaves.
Get Rid of Cabbage Worms in the Garden
Cabbage worms are hungry little caterpillars that love to feast on your cabbage, broccoli, and kale. You can kill them off by mixing equal amounts of baking soda and white flour.
Dust your brassicas plants with the mixture to get rid of the destructive cabbage worms. Apply the mixture every three to four days to keep your garden free from cabbage worms.
Natural Way to Kill Crabgrass
Start by wetting down the crabgrass and weeds that are in your yard. Next, apply a thick coat of baking soda to the base of the weeds and directly onto their leaves.
Avoid getting any of the baking soda on plants that you don't want to kill as the baking soda will burn their leaves.
Baking Soda Weed Killer
You can sprinkle a baking soda weed killer along your patio and walkways and in cracks and crevices to efficiently get rid of weeds. If you have weeds around paved surfaces, heavily pour baking soda on and around the weeds to make a weed killer without resorting to harmful chemicals. To get in between the sidewalk cracks and spaces between pavers, use a whisk broom to sweep the powder into these hard to reach areas.
While baking soda can be an extremely useful tool for natural gardening, you don't want to rely upon it entirely. Like with any other natural ingredient, if it is overused, it will lose its efficiency. This is why you need to establish a schedule for sound garden management.
Baking soda is an excellent alternative to the harsh chemical products that you may use to kill weeds, battle pests, and defeat diseases.


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The conference 'A Joint Struggle for an End to the Occupation and Racism' was held in Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Saturday 7 May.
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The conference 'A Joint Struggle for an End to the Occupation and Racism' was held in Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Saturday 7 May. Organized by the Alternative Information Center (AIC), together with the Palestinian social movement in Hebron and Tarabut-Hithabrut social movement from Israel, the conference was the first ever public political conference between Palestinian and Israeli social movements. Fore more information, visit http://alternativenews.org
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Selected Videos
- ***Alnakba [The Catastrophe] - [P1] The Threads of the Conspiracy [P2] Crushing the Revolution
- ***Alnakba [The Catastrophe] - [P3] Ethnic Cleansing [P4] Nakba Continued
- **Al Nakba [La Catástrofe] - [P1] Los Hilos de la Conspiración [P2] Aplastar la Revoución
- **AlNakba [La Catásrofe] - [P3] Limpieza Étnica
- *A Palestinian Woman
- *Azmi Bishara - Interview:
- *Azmi Bishara on Israeli Apartheid
- *Azmi Bishara: The Last Colonial Question
- *Blood & Religion, Unmasking the Israeli State
- *De Facto State of Lawlessness
- *Drying up Palestine
- *Edward Said - On Orientalism
- *Edward Said: Lecture The Myth of 'The Clash of Civilzations'
- *Edward Said: Memory, Inequality and Power: Palestine and the Universality of Human Rights
- *Edward Said: Palestine, Iraq and U.S. Policy
- *Francis Boyle - Palestinians and International law
- *From Occupation to Enclosure: Fragmenting the Palestinian State 1 - Diana Buttu"
- *From Occupation to Enclosure: Fragmenting the Palestinian State 2 - Amira Hass"
- *George Bisharat - Ending the Palestinian Nakba
- *Ghada Karmi at Yale
- *Ghada Karmi: Why Israel is a Failed State
- *Ilan Pappe - Interview
- *Ilan Pappe - Israel's 1967 Plan for the West Bank and Gaza Strip
- *Ilan Pappe on the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
- *In the Spider's Web
- *Interview: Ghassan Andoni
- *Israel's Secret Weapon (Israel's WMD)
- *Jeff Halper - Israeli Apartheid and the Paths to a Just Peace
- *Jeff Halper- The United States, Israel and the American Jewish Community
- *Jenin Jenin
- *John Pilger - Palestine is still the issue
- *John Pilger - The War on Democracy
- *Landscapes of Occupation in Palestine
- *Muhammad Jaradat & Eitan Bronstein: 1948 and the Right of Return
- *Noam Chomsky - Middle East Crisis
- *Noam Chomsky on Gaza - MIT
- *Norman Fikelstein - The Israel-Palestine conflict: what we can learn from Gandhi
- *Norman Finkelstein speech at Columbia University (3 parts video)
- *Occupation 101
- *Off The Charts - If Americans Knew
- *Palestine Street -1- The Lost Bride
- *Palestine Street -2- The Bride in exile
- *Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: Media & the Israel-Palestine Conflict
- *People and The Land: The Story of a People Under Occupation
- *Phyllis Bennis - "Dual Occupations: Iraq and Palestine in Bush's Empire"
- *Rachel: An American Conscience
- *Rashid Khalidi - Palestine: 40 Years of Occupation, 60 Years of Dispossession
- *Rep. Paul Findley Dares to Speak Out -- Again! AIPAC exposed
- *Salman Abu Sitta: Atlas Palestine
- *Salman Abu Sitta: The Geography of Occupation
- *Secret WMD in Israel
- *Technical Error at Beit Hanoun
- *Tegenlicht ('Backlight') A Documentary on the Israel Lobby -
- *The Bases Are Loaded: US Permanent Military Presence in Iraq
- *The Easiest Targets: The Israeli Policy of Strip Searching Women and Children
- *The influence of the Israel Lobby on American foreign policy
- *The Iron Wall
- *The Israeli Wall in Palestinian Lands
- *The Killing Zone
- *The Unrecognized
- *This is Not Your War
- *Wall of Shame
- Watch "If Americans Knew" Videos
- Watch Alternate Focus Videos
- Watch B'Tselem Videos
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Bubble Witch Saga Level 252
Strategies, Pictures and Tips by Teresa Atkinson
Starting Bubbles: 50
Recommended Potions: 7 Extra bubbles, 3 Ceiling Holes, Rainbow Bubbles
Useful Charms: Precision, Disarm (optional)
Points needed for 1, 2, 3 Star: 95,000, 115,000, 135,000
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Pic 252a: You have a row of black bubbles on the bottom and upper right hand side. 3 bombs on the left, 1 off center and 1 on the right. Also 1 bomb near ceiling on the left. 2 shadow bubbles in the middle with a virus bubble above.
Stop the virus coming down the center then take out the sides (being careful of the bombs). Try to take out the right hand side bomb first then you can work back across the middle to drop the other side.
Pic 252b: Once the lower section and bombs have dropped you can see the ceiling, Be careful of the last bomb, clear the ceiling getting green spiders before it drops.
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Bloom with Bella, Books, and Botany
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Our hope is that this will inspire your sense of wonder and to take advantage of the benefits of nature when teaching all the critical domains. Bella's Seasons of Stories, Seasons of Science is BRIT's unique science/inquiry-based early childhood educational portfolio of products and services that uses quality children's literature, nature, and botany. It provides opportunities for the early childhood educator to promote scientific thinking and practice, literacy, math, and creative art skills.
With each seasonal unit (3 months) purchased, the classroom receives:
- Three specially chosen books to tie popular children's literature to science learning
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Based on current research in best practices, Bella's Building Blocks for Learning; Story Time, Purposeful Play, Exploration and Discovery, and Reflective Conversation are the teaching strategies implemented in all of BRIT's early learning programs and can be applied to any early childhood curriculum.
This program has four critical components to ensure its success:
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- Post-Outdoor Lessons – Activities that give the program "wings" to allow repeated opportunities for your students to practice science inquiry and deepen knowledge and skills.
- A Co-Learner Mindset – Research shows that young children learn best when accompanied by a caring adult partner that guides their explorations, play, and conversations. So the activities encourage and give rise to "talk that teaches" and opportunities to grow critical thinking skills.
The curriculum support is flexible, user-friendly, and is aligned with the Texas Pre-Kindergarten Science guidelines. It is a menu from which to choose the best activities and strategies that are appropriate for your students and your available resources. It can help you weave STEM concepts and content into your existing curriculum and lesson plans for all the critical domains
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2. Am I communicating effectively with my customers during this time to assure them that my business is still looking out for their best interests?
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He is Risen!
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise."
(Luke 24:1-7, ESV)
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All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all . . . . Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.
Happy Birthday Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor was born 88 years ago today. While I wasn't a big fan of her stories when I was in college many years ago, I've come to appreciate several of them as I've matured. I still need to read more before I can say I'm a fan of all her stories but I loved the massive volume of her letters. In honor of her birthday, I think I should pull my copy of The Habit of Being off the shelf and re-read a few of her letters.
If you're interested in learning more about her, you might want to start here: Comforts of Home: the Flannery O'Connor Repository.
This has nothing to do with what I usually share here but I really liked this story about a German WWII pilot who spared the life of an American B-17 pilot (and his crew) who became friends 40 years after the War.
Friday links 3/22/13
Today I only have a couple of links to share but hopefully the old saying "quality is better than quantity" is true. I also have a few pictures of some stationery we bought at Tuesday Morning last weekend. I don't really need anymore stationery, but an aunt who is a prolific letter writer and is also on a very limited fixed income can always use more so I share almost all of my stationery purchases by sending about half of each set I buy to her.
Yesterday was our March Write to Delight meeting so I took some photos of our envelope making supplies spread out over the table. We're very thankful for the use of the library conference room. We can chatter away without disturbing anyone.
Remember my "Regency style" letter? It made it without a scratch. It even looks like they hand stamped it. Makes me glad our mailman sent it to Oakland to be processed instead of San Francisco. I've heard horror stories about SF postal employees. Of course, it would be even better if USPS wasn't closing the North Bay mailing center in Petaluma but since they are, I was very pleased to see that Oakland did such a nice job.
The letter made it just fine and looked exactly as it had when I mailed it. The only problem was when it was opened. The two extra little drops of sealing wax lifted off without a problem but the large one in the center pulled some of the paper, along with the writing on the reverse side, away. Note to self: make sure to leave a large margin next time so that none of my writing gets obliterated.
Since this week is Spring break for my daughter we decided go to the Outlet mall to see if we could find any good deals. No luck finding her a pair of shoes but here's a picture of two of the stationery sets we found at the Tuesday Morning store in the Outlet shopping center. My daughter loves foxes, so that one is for her;
And here are the other two stationery sets we found there. The butterfly cards come with really cute envelopes - I'll have to post a picture of one later.
Moving on to this week's Write to Delight meeting: this photo is of the photo book of wolves that I picked up at our local Goodwill store for just $2.00 last year. It's been waiting patiently to be turned into envelopes.
Do you think we brought enough supplies with us?
The five of us managed to take up most of this huge table in the conference room.
In addition to making envelopes, we talked about what (kinds of) things hinder us from writing all the letters we want to and brainstormed ideas to help overcome those obstacles. I should have taken notes. ☺
Just for fun - I mailed these letters last month for the Month of Letters but forgot to post the picture. That's almost but not quite as bad as forgetting to take pictures of my outgoing.
Friday Links (3/15/13)
my fingers are crossed...
This is my "regency" letter experiment. I wrote a letter on one piece of paper then folded it up in roughly the shape of an envelope, addressed it and sealed it with some of my Artelier Gargoyle wax that I bought years ago. I added two extra bits of wax in the hope that will help it make it through the postal services mail machines. Now I'm just waiting to find out. Although, it isn't an "official" regency fold - they didn't really look secure enough so I Googled letter folds and decided to use this Fern letter fold instead.
With everything that's been going on I've forgotten to take pictures of most of my outgoing mail but here's one I did remember to take. And I'm working on several more so I'll try to remember to take pictures before I drop them in the mailbox. (As you can see, I'm still using the Month of Letters return address labels I made even though it's officially over.)
I saw this great sign in front of a Church here in town and had to share it.
image from The Atlantic's Japan Earthquake article
March 11th marked two years since the earthquake and Tsunami in Japan. I found these "before and after" (aka two years later) photos at The Atlantic fascinating, They've cleaned up a lot of the damage but there's still a lot of work that needs to be done for them to get back to normal.
a great Book Sale locator
Book lovers on a budget will love this site I came across today. I just wish I'd found it sooner. Just click on the map of the USA & Canada at Book Sale Finder to find lists of all the book sales in your area. Made me want to fill the car with gas and head out today but since we had other things we needed to do, the book sales will have to wait. Maybe next weekend.
Sorry I've been AWOL
It all started over a week ago when I dropped my cell phone. In water. That was a first for me. I've always managed to make my phones last for years but not this time. I quickly found that being phone-less was harder than I though it would be so I had to go buy a new phone (even though I managed with out a cell phone for more than half my life). Actually it was a blessing in disguise because I didn't really like the other phone and neither did my family - it was always dropping my calls, and this new one hasn't dropped any calls yet but that hasn't kept my husband from teasing me that I dropped it on purpose. I really didn't want to spend the money but I have to admit I this new phone is lots better so I'm kind of glad it happened.
But then right after the fun with my phone, our computer decided it was on its last legs and we had to take it in to be worked on. And on top of that I was way behind on my reading for book club and all of my spare time was spent playing catch up for this week's book club meeting. (I managed to finish it the same day - whew! =D)
With all that, I haven't had much time for the blogs I follow much less posting here so I only have a few things to share today. Hopefully life will get back to "normal" this week and I'll have more time for letter writing and the internet. In the meantime, here are a few links you might find interesting.
Letter and mail related:
About Me
My TBR list
Books read list (2014, 2015,....)
* Books You Recommend *
~ Please add your suggetions here
Jan's bookshelf: currently-reading
Inductive Bible Study: Observation, Interpretation, and Application through the Lenses of History, Literature, and Theology
2018 Reading Challenge
Jan has read 22 books toward her goal of 40 books.
2017 Reading Challenge
Jan has read 0 books toward her goal of 35 books.
My very long Blogroll
Snail mail, Books &
Reading, Christian, and Miscellaneous sites that I like &/or am challenged
(Those with a ♥ or + I try to check at least once or twice each week.)
1) Snail Mail Blogs:
♥ Letter Matters
(Mrs. Duffy's blog)
♥ Sharing Doubles the
Joy/Carol Ann
McCarthy (if link
doesn't open try her
home page & then
click on "blog")
♥ Dosanko Debbie's
Etegami Notebook
♥ Everyday Should Be a
Red Letter Day
♥ Letter Writers Alliance
♥ Winnie's Girl ----> Pie
- The Suburban Pen
- Cappuccino & Art
- Stamp of Approval --->
USPS Stamps
- Your Postal Blog
- Sarah's Scribblings
- East...West...
- Leigh Reyes's Blog
~ My Life as a Verb
- Letters & Journals
- Save Snail Mail
- Scribbling Glue
- Songs in the Key of
Ink: The Art of
Personal Letter Writing
- Bywater Wisdom ("or
lack thereof+)
- 365 Letters
- Oh, Write Me!
- Billet Doux & Little
- Mrs Murphy's
Mailbox Magic!
- The Postman's Knock
♥ The Lost Art of
Letter Writing . . .
♦ The Jane Austen
Letter Writing
Society (sounds like fun)
- US Zip Codes lookup
& map
♦ More links on Mail-
Art & Letter-writing
Resources page
- My DIYJapanese-
style envelope
tutorial and template
2) Books & Reading:
+ Books & Chocolate
- Lit Lovers site & Blog
- Rated Reads
- Compass Book
♥ Redeemed Reader
♥ Gospel e-books
(Kindle deals)
* Kindle Price Drop
- Inspired Reads
(Kindle deals)
- Pixel of Ink (Kindle
- Christian Novels blog
- Shelf Awareness
- Books & Chocolate
(Cindy's) ~ defunct(?)
- The Republic of
- Deborah Yaffe's blog
(author of Among the
- The Jane Austen
Society of North
- Jane Austen's World
- JASNA: Greater
Sacramento, CA
- My Jane Austen Book
- AustenProse
- Jane Austen Today
- Jane Austen in
- Central Valley Jane
Austen Society
- Austen Authors (for
readers who "need
more Austen")
- The Gaskell Web
- Mental Multivitamin -> now called Nerdishly
- A Literary Odyssey
- Across the Page
- 5 Minutes for Books
& What's on Your
- Journey-&-
- Windows & Mirrors:
sisters reading books
- Christian Bookshelf
- The Indextrious
- LiterariTea
- Becky's Book Reviews
and Operation
Actually Read Bible
- Smoke & Mirrors (&
her Borders Bookclub)
- Great New Books
♥ A Great Book
Study (was originally called
An Experiment with the Well-
Educated Mind)
♥ Semicolon: Books We
Must Have Though
We Lack Bread
- The Captive Reader
♥ Reading to Know
- A Living Pencil
+ Worthwhile Books
+ Reading Ladies Book
- Hope is in the Word
- Book Nut
- Sarah Clarkson (Sally
Clarkson's daughter)
- Mollie Reads (9/2018)
- No Thanks We're
Booked (9/2018)
♥ Country Girls Read
- Southern Girl Reads
- Books & Things (Katie
- Stuck in a Book
- Yummy Books
- A Large Cup of Tea
- In the Bookcase
- The Sunny Patch
- Fanda Classiclit
- Lost in a Great Book
- Classical Carousel
YA & Kid's Lit:
- Trelease on Reading
(author of The Read Aloud
♥ Read Aloud Revival (blog,
podcast & more) Sept.'16
- The Planet Esme Plan:
The Best New Children's Books
from Esmé's Shelf ~ not
Christian so use discernment,
but she does have lots of good
kid's books listed
- Plumfield and Paideia
- After Thoughts (new May'17)
- Story Warren (Allies in
- The Rabbit Room
- The Midnight Garden
- The Book Smugglers
- Reading Addicts (UK)
- Becky's Book Addiction
- Dickensblog
- AustenBlog
- Book Sale Finder
- Oxford Dictionaries
- GoodReads
- Shelfari ~ Amazon has
combined it with
GoodReads so they're
now one and the same :(
- the Barbara Pym Society
- BronteBlog
- Inspired by Life...&
- Jamie Langston Turner
- Julie Klassen's site
- Sarah Sundin's blog
- Tricia Goyer's site...&
her Blog
- Francine Rivers'
- Kristy Cambron's
- Joanne Bischof's
- "The Grove" (where story
finds a home) & also on
- Katherine Reay's
- BookSnob
- Mocha with Linda
- Reading with Tea
- Project Gutenberg
- The Online Books Page
- Read Central
- Page by Page Books
- Bookpeople of Moscow
- free book sites/public
domain sources
- Eldritch Press
- Digital Book Index
- Google books
- Internet Archive: Million
- Internet Archive:
Children's library
♥ LibriVox
- The Chronicles of
Narnia podcasts
* Oxford English Online
Dictionary (US)
* Grammar Girl
- My ever expanding TBR
- My Books read list
♦ more links on Books &
Reading page
3) Miscellaneous:
♥ The Pioneer
- All Things Bright and
Beautiful --> moved
- The Good Life
- Beth's Favorite
- Carlsbad Cravings
(her recipes look
- Budget Bytes
- Add a Pinch
- Three Many Cooks
- Good Cheap Eats
- Hurst Bean Blog
- DaVita's Kidney-
Friendly Recipes
(we still make - & love! - quite
a few of these recipes)
- My Double Life
- Felt & Wire
- Susan Branch blog
- The Matt Walsh blog
- Tony Reinke (author of
- Laughing With Lizzie
- Jane Austen's World
- Make Do and Mend
- Down to Earth
- Rosie's Ramblings
- Creekside Cottage (Mrs.
Rabe's blog)
- ScribblePreach
- Campaign for Cursive
- (another) Campaign
for Cursive
+ StoneGable
- Fresh Eggs Daily
- Living Homegrown
♥ Living on Less Money
+ The (Mostly) Simple
+ Prairie Home Therapy
- My cup runneth over
- Imperfectly Happy
- Home Ready Home
- This Simple Home ---
-> Simple Everyday
- The Frugal Girls:
Living Well with less $$$
- Spendwise Moms
- Money Saving Mom
- Living Well, Spending
- Melissa K Norris ~
Inspiring Your Faith &
Pioneer Roots
- Thrifty Jane Austen
- Reluctant Entertainer
- Lehman's (great
- Thriving Home
- Letters from Midlife
♥ Cakes, Tea and
- Karen's Bookshelves ~ (added August 2015 ~
books reviews from a
Christian perspective)
- The Vicar's Wife
- The Cross & the
Kitchen Sink (defunct?)
- The Green
- Stray Thoughts
- Kayla's Lifestyle Blog
♥ Coffee, Tea, Books &
+ Cottage Life on
Pilgrim's Farm ~ on hiatus
+ Georgia, Plain and
+ Modern Mrs. Darcy
- Not Quite Amish
- Nesting Place
- Finding North (lots of
BuJo info & ideas)
- Plant City Lady (for
dementia caregivers)
- GasBuddy
- CA & NV Earthquake
- Charity Navigator
(♥ Christian links ~
Bible Study & Reading
♥ Bible Study Fellowship
- BSF class locator ~
not as hard or in-depth as
Precept but a good
place to start & free
- Scripture
Compilations for
BSF lessons (Not
affiliated with BSF but
very handy)
- also BSF Buddy
♥ Precept Ministries
- Precept's Online
- class locator
- interactive guide
- blog
+ Beloved Truth - site
+ Beloved Truth Facebook
- Precept Austin
- my Precept Key word
markings: (based on
my 1st Precept
leader's system):
bookmark 1,
bookmark 2 / 2A or
bookmark 3 ~ not sure what
happened to this last file
- 5 W's & H chart
- How to do a chapter
study (This one isn't mine but
I can't remember where I got this
handy worksheet - if it was a free
download from Precept or if one
of my Precept Bible study leaders
created it)
- Kim's How to Study the
Bible Timesaver
bookmark (from an online
Precept Bible study leader)
- Biola's Unbound Bible
- Crossway's English
Standard Version
- ESV Online Study Bible
- ESV Online Bible
- HCSB Study Bible
- BibleGateway
- Bible Logos (NKJV)
- Bible Logos (ESV)
- NetBible
- Biblia.com
- Reformed Books Online
- Gospel-Centered
Discipleship (GCD)- new
Aug'17 but looks pretty
- Biblearc - for deeper
study of Scripture
- Bible Study Online (ESV)
- Precept A-U-S-T-I-N-S
ESV "Bible on One Page"
- Precept A-U-S-T-I-N-S
NAS "Bible on One Page"
- StudyLight
- Precept Camden --> Kari
Dent's blog
- her Key word symbols
- her favorite pens for
marking Just be
careful when using the
FrixIon pens - I like
them but it will fade off
of the page if left in the
sun. Ask me how I
know! ;-)
- Precept Revival's
study tips
- Blue Letter Bible
- E-Sword (free but
donations help)
- Biblos.com
- Bible Explorer (looks
similar to E-Sword)
- Logos
- Olive Tree
- BibleHub
- Prof. Grant Horner's
Bible reading plan &
more info here
- George Guthrie
+ Monergism
- Westminster Bookstore
Women & Theology
♥ HouseWife Theologian
(aka Aimee Byrd)
♥ A Daughter of the
+ Theology Gals podcast at
Bible Thumping Wingnut (there
several podcasts there but I
haven't listened to them yet)
♥ Tried with Fire (Persis)
♥ The Upward Call (Kim
+ Sally Clarkson (I don't
agree with everything, but I like
a lot of her posts, especially the
homey, tea, & bookish ones =D)
- Out of the
Ordinary (esp. Persis' posts)
+ Reformed Baptista
+ Sister, Daughter,
Mother, Wife (Lutheran)
+ enCourage (PCA blog)
+ A Narrow-Minded
+ Beautiful Thing
- Wit's End (Melissa Kruger)
- Elyse Fitzpatrick's blog &
podcast - I've been troubled
by some of her recent
comments so may be
removing this link
- The Thinking of
Things (new 9/2017) DITTO
+ Janet Mefferd
- One Quiet Life (♥ but she
rarely posts)
- Rebecca Writes
- Daily On My Way to
Heaven (Becky Pliego)
- By Grace Alone (Jessica
K's ~ Lutheran)
- The End Time (Elizabeth
Prata ~ some good but some?)
- Gritty Grace
+ Heavenly Springs
(Christina Langella)
- Conforming to the Truth
(Lisa Morris)
- Adorned (Jen Thorn)
* I'm All Booked (mostly
Christian book reviews by a
Reformed Baptist)
- The Verity Fellowship
(new to me so....)
- Renewed in Truth
- A Little Leaven (Beth S.)
- The Outspoken TULIP
- Michelle Lesley ~ books
- Satisfaction Through
- Abandoned to Christ /
Sunny Shell's site
- Brown Sugar Toast (her
Bible study series is pretty good)
- Naomi's Table (not 100%
sure about this one)
- With the Master (Susan
Heck ~ lots of women like her
studies but I have yet to try one)
- Nancy Guthrie
- Equipping Eve
- Sojourner
& her 2nd blog:
-> Solid Food
~ Deb Martin's blogs but
she changes them so
often it's almost
impossible to keep up)
- Danielthree18 (another
new-to-me blog)
- Whole Magazine - newish
blog from Australia - added 6/17
- The Verity Fellowship
(added June 2017)
- Jasmine Holmes: Not a
Mommy Blog
Reformed Baptist:
- 1689 Federalism
+ A Commentary of the
London Baptist
Confession of Faith 1689
+ The Confessing Baptist
(but on a really long hiatus)
- Reformed Baptist
+ Contrast
- Reformed Baptist Blog
(Jeffrey Johnson's blog)
- Chantry Notes ~ this is
sad but I'm removing the
link to his blog until the
court outcome - see
here & here). Yes, innocent
until proven guilty, but Pastors
shouldn't hide the story either.
- Means of Grace (BH)
- Reformed Baptist Blog (?)
- Reformed Baptist
Academic Press
Apologetics / Discernment:
Even here, use discernment as some discernment blogs are more discerning than others! Also, several of the links listed under Women & Theology are sort of discernment related.
♥ Fighting for the Faith
Chris Rosebrough's
- Stand to Reason
- CARM -- Christian
Apologetics & Research Ministry
- Stand Up for the Truth
(seems good except for their
endorsement of David Hocking -
info about that here & here)
- Sola Sisters - no longer
- Christian Answers for the
New Age
- DiscernIt (Kim Olsen -seems ok)
- Discern.org
- TruthKeepers - earnestly
contend for the faith
- Lighthouse Trails (some good,
some iffy)
- Apprising Ministries
- Do Not Be Surprised
- Herescope
Podcasts/Internet Radio:
♥ Fighting for the Faith
(Chris Rosebrough)
♥ The Whitehorse Inn
♥ The Mortification of
Spin (ACE)
+ The Thinking Fellows
site and podcast
- Gentle Reformation blog
& podcast
- The Confessing Baptist
(no longer updating :-(
+ Issues, etc. ~ Christ-
Centered Cross-Focused
Talk Radio (Lutheran)
- SermonAudio
- Bethel Evangelical Free
Church (UK)
- RefNet (from Ligonier)
- Jess Ranch Community
Church semons
- Echo Zoe (blog &
- Pilgrim Radio (new to
- For the Church (Gospel-Centered
Resources from Midwestern Seminary)
- Voice in the Wilderness
radio (new to me & not
sure about a couple of the
pastors they have on)
Misc. Christian Blogs & web sites:
- Mortification of Spin
- Whitehorse Inn / Modern
Reformation blog
- Core Christianity
- CCC Discover
- High Plains Parson
- The Riddleblog (one of
the WHI co-hosts)
+Reformed Arsenal
+ The Museum of Idolatry
(Chris Rosebrough)
- Mere Orthodoxy
- Steak and a Bible
- HeadHeartHand (David
- Alliance of Confessing
- ACE/Ref.21's blog
- Informing the
Reforming (Tim
Challies' blog)
+ Echoes & Stars (Matt
Redmon's blog)
- Veritas Manet - Truth
Remains (*New to me)
- By Grace Alone (Scott's)
- Canon Fodder (Michael
- Biblical Woman
- Flying Scroll (Lutheran)
- Martha Peace ~ (some good
but some I disagree with)
- Credo Magazine
- Time-Warp Wife
- John MacArthur / Grace
to You
- PyroManiacs (Phil
Johnson & others)
+ The Spurgeon Archive
(June'17: recently updated &
- Denny Burk
- Tim's Blog - Just One
Train Wreck After
- Creeds of Christendom
- London Baptist
Confession of Faith
- 1689 London Baptist
Confession for the 21st
- Heidelberg Catechism
- The Canons of Dordt
- Center for Reformed
Theology & Apologetics
- The Reformed Reader
- The Didache
- The Confessing Baptist
- Founders (Reformed
- 1689 Federalism:
Confessional Baptiist
Covenant Theology
- Randy Alcorn's blog
- A Cry for Justice
- Brent Detwiler: Helping
Christians judge
righteously, think
biblically and live
courageously (some good,
some not-so-good)
- Thou Art the Man (Todd
- Joyful Exiles
- The Reformed Reader
- Voddie Baucham
- Heidelblog (R.Scott
- Blogging Theologically
(Aaron Armstrong)
+ Cranach (Gene Veith's
- The Cripplegate
- Spirit Empowered
Preaching (Art Azurdia)
- The Spurgeon
- Abraham's Seed
- Joe Thorn
^ his Valley of Vision
reading schedule
- A Gentle & Quiet Spirit
- Christian Reformed Ink
- Inerrant Word
- Speaking the Truth in
- Susan's Sitting Room
- Telling of His Wonderful
- Being Taugth That We
May Teach (Al Martin)
- World View Weekend
(Brannon Howse)?
- Chapter 3 Ministries
- The Aquila Report
- Growing Together in
Grace and Knowledge
- Musings from Under
the Bus
- Steadfast Lutherans
- Daniel's Place -
(Reformata et semper
- Helm's Deep (?)
- Covenant Baptist
Seminary / CBTS Blog
- Credo Covenant
- Gospel Homemaking
- Reformed Libertarian
- The Wardrobe Door
- Reformed Report
- Dee Brestin
- Stand Firm (???)
- The Gospel Project -
- Grace Gems!
- Sunday Gatherings
- Writing & Living
(Staci Eastin - defunct?)
- Internet Monk
- All Things New (Deb
- First Thoughts
- Entreating Favor
With reservations (not sure
about yet - may be semi-Reformed
&/or Reformedish):
- the Gospel Coalition &
their the Gospel-
centered woman
(Reformed-ish but the way they
defended Driscoll and
Mahaney/& here is shameful
so I no longer have a high
opinion of TGC)
- SGM Survivors
- The Wartburg Watch
- the Beginning of
Wisdom (Jen Wilkin's)
- Pulpit & Pen (some
good posts & some not-
Advent/Christmas related:
- Christmas Bible readings
(NJ's page)
- Ali's Adventures
- Gleanings from the Field
- A Letter from Kabwata
(Conrad Mbewe's blog)
- Rafiki Foundation, Inc
- Coles in Japan
6) Pen, Ink & Paper:
♥ A Place to Flourish
♥ Margaret Shepherd's
Calligraphy blog
- IAMPETH (master
- Fountain Pen Network
- Fountain Pen Geeks
- Gourmet Pens
- Addicted to Pens &
- Inkophile
♥ Pen Addict
- JetPens' Blog
- Ink Nouveau
+ Goulet Pens
- The Well-
Appointed Desk
- JStationery
- Fountain Pen Revolution
- Quo Vadis Planners
& Notebooks
- Delectable Pens
- Fahrney's Pens
- Fountain Pen Hospital
- Papyrus
- American Stationery
- Kate's Paperie
- Paper-Source
- Paper & Ink Arts
- Pomegranate Press
- Flax Art Store
- Cat's Life Press rubber
- Highlander Celtic
- Rifle Paper Co. & their
- Maido
- Paper Tree
- Castle in the Air shop
and their class listings
- Scrapbook Territory
- Nostalgic Impressions
To read fast is as bad as to eat in a hurry.
—Vilhelm Ekelund
poet (1880-1949)
LWA member since 2009
Staples - what speed do you read? This is kind of fun. :)
November 2018
I'm not sure where to put this blog or how to classify it. This blogger is a daughter of a friend and while I'm pretty sure she's a Christian, it isn't a Christian blog, or books & reading or letter writing & mail art. It's basically about their travels so I'm putting it here for now:
Jen's blog: 3toGo


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Dr Anthony Salmon is a chiropractor, running his own clinic in Lake Elsinore, California.
Look him up on www.salmonchiropractic.com
Dr Anthony Salmon FRCP FRCPCH is a Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist at Southampton University Teaching Hospital.
Look him up on www.cardiology-magazine.de/salmon.html
Tony Salmon is Head of Estimating & Procurement at construction company Pearce Group.
Look him up on www.pearce.co.uk
Anthony Salmon, a student at Wilson Magnet High School, Rochester, New York was paralysed in a tragic accident during a game of baseball in 2003.
The late Anthony Salmon (1916-2000) was a prominent figure at J Lyons & Co, the tea people.
Read his obituary on www.kzwp.com/lyons.pensioners/obituary2S.htm
Tony Salmon was a famous evangelist from Lake Oswego, Ontario, USA. He was founder and vice-president of the Kingdom Ministries and we had exchanged many e-mails.
Sadly, Tony passed away on 10th September 2010. He leaves a widow, Sarah, and grown up children.
Tony Salmon is a bus driver in West Yorkshire.
You've already looked him up!
This Tony Salmon is a classic! He is about to "take the world by storm" with his business ideas. He has a great website, but I still can't work out what his business ideas are!
His website is www.tony-salmon.com and he also has a YouTube video. (Click the underlined links to see). Well, whatever he's doing I wish him all the best!
(Update: he failed to answer all my messages then disappeared! I wonder why?)
Anthony Salmon is a Senior Technician at the School of Technology at the University of Glamorgan.
Tony Salmon works as a TV programme director for the BBC.
4 July 2017
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- 1 cup unsweetened almond milk (or non-dairy milk of your choice)
- 1 organic banana, preferably frozen
- 3/4 cup frozen mango
- 2 handfuls spinach
- 1 handful ice (if your banana isn't frozen)
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Sunday's Smoothie {Mango Banana Green Smoothie: Day 6 of 7}
5 comments:
- Unknown said...
Mango and Banana sounds like a fabulous combination! I did apple and cherries the other day, and it was amazing! :)
-Michelle @ Eat Move Balance
- January 6, 2013 at 10:54 AM
- Sarah said...
Hi Katherine,
that's funny, I just finished to write a blogpost for tomorrow about a green smoothie with spinach, mango and banana when I read that.
I need to try out the smoothie with frozen fruits soon, sounds like a good idea. Oh, and I prepared a smoothie with some strawberries yesterday, like in your last post. That tasted good, but the colour turned into something that reminds me of mud - so no pic of that ;-)
As you can see, I am already totally into smoothie making, as much as I am talking about it ...
- January 6, 2013 at 12:39 PM
- Sara said...
I posted twice this week about my progress in the challenge and have a recap post going up tomorrow with links to recipes and the such. Feel free to steal pictures off of the posts that are up already - I don't find myself posting many pictures of the smoothies because they don't often end up a pretty green color... more often than not they're brownish and who wants to look at that!? ;)
- January 6, 2013 at 12:52 PM
- Did I eat that? said...
Sounds delicious and refreshing :) I had a smoothie today, just my usual, which contained spinach, a banana and almond milk. Simple but lovely! I want to start experimenting soon though, so thanks for the ideas x
- January 6, 2013 at 3:53 PM
- Unknown said...
That is such a pretty color green. I bought a big bunch of spinach today to whip up green smoothies all week!
- January 6, 2013 at 8:50 PM


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The Siege of Burthpore !
The Siege of Bharatpur took place between 18 Nov 2104 to 20 November; in what is now Rajasthan state in India. During the early winter months of 2014, the members of the Kochhar Family, led by General Abhinav, travelled to Ghana National Park AKA Keoladeo National Park. Bharatpur got this funny accent of Burthpore from the British troops who had difficulty pronouncing the name Bharatpur.
The Keoladeo Ghana National Park was formerly known as the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary. It plays host to thousands of birds especially during the winter season. Over 230 species of birds are known to have made the Park their home. It is also a major tourist centre. Many ornithologists arrive here in the Migratory Season. It was declared a protected sanctuary in 1971. Also declared a World Heritage Site, Keoladeo National Park is a paradise for bird watchers and photographers. This paradise for birds was formerly a natural depression wetland that was used for duck shooting by high and mighty Kings and British. Though hunting has ceased and the area declared a national park in 1982.
Since it was the start of winters, the birds were still arriving form long distance Siberian, American and European region. Bharatpur is the largest man made and maintained wetland area in the world and many international species of birds make Bharatpur their nesting ground during peak winters. Here large flocks of ducks, 15 species of herons, ibis, cormorants, spoonbills and storks, cranes, geese, coots, pelicans and waders arrive during the winter months for breeding. Also endangered Sarus Crane, Greater Spotted Eagle and Imperial Eagle can be also spotted here. Domestic bird species like sparrows, swifts, mynas, robins, crows, pigeons, peacocks and pheasants can be spotted all round the year. This is the only park in India that is completely enclosed by a 2 m high boundary wall that minimizes the possibilities of any encroachment and biotic disturbances. The water is pumped from neighboring rivers and dams.
There are plentiful options for luxury accommodation in Bharatpur ranging from star rated hotels to palace converted hotels. The best one being Laxmi Niwas Palace. But if one wants to experience Bharatpur in its true sense, one can book accommodation at the Bharatpur Ashok Forest Lodge – owned and managed by Ashoka Hotels. It can be booked online. There is a small restaurant and a conference hall too. We had booked a room for us in this property for a night. This extra ordinary Forest Lodge is located 2 kilometres inside the main gate of the sanctuary. One has to take rickshaw to reach there. No cars are allowed beyond the Parking Area.
Bharatpur can be reached from either Agra or Jaipur via Agra Bikaner highway.
It's an hour and a half's drive from Agra, Approx 60 kilometres. The drive is smooth except the busy Agra traffic, roads are good too! We reached Bharatpur by evening. Sun was setting right on the middle of the highway and it was a beautiful sight.
Upon entering the main gate of the national park, one has to park the vehicle in the garage. And take a rickshaw to reach the Forest Lodge. Rickshaw shuttle was free and sponsored if you have a booking to stay inside. We were welcomed nicely as we checked in. It's very peaceful here inside the park and we didn't have much time to explore outside as its late evening and cold outside. We settled to have dinner at 9. In the morning its 5:30 and we have decided to see the sunrise over the woods. As we slipped outside the Rest House, there were chirping birds everywhere. The birds were having a gala time. Mornings and evenings are noisy with number of bird calls and one can differentiate if he has knowledge of the calls.
It's very good to be here at this time and see wonders of Mother Nature. After this we returned for breakfast and later went to see the sanctuary.
Rickshaw ride is wonderful and if you have a good rickshaw puller, he will be a good guide. They have more knowledge about birds than any other person. First we went to see the turtles at the pool of the temple. Then we spotted owls. Later one after the other almost we could spot all the species of birds.
List of birds we spotted was very long ranging from owls, pigeons, pheasants, peacocks, snake birds, ducks, Sarus cranes, robins, herons, ibis, cormorants, spoonbills and storks, cranes, geese, coots, pelicans etc. Also one can spot deer, wild cat and antelopes among the wild animals.
There are series of water bodies inside the sanctuary and colonies of birds can be spotted everywhere. One has to be lucky to spot species of birds and also to click some good photos. We had ample to do photography and have collected some good memories. Soon its checkout time and we have to return to Delhi also. As we packed our bags, I cleared the bills. It's not very expensive here. There is a small post office here in this Lodge, its open for 3 hours only being branch office. Basic post facilities can be availed from this counter. But only till 12:30 PM. We posted a letter from here to our home.
Soon after this we set to return for our home back in Delhi.


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Anyway, as you may have gathered by the title, today is completely centered around future bass. I know AnimeLover likes this genre (even though it's basically the et cetera genre), and I've found a lot of it recently. There's a reason I love it as well - the songs are usually upbeat and happy, but even when they're not, they sound really original and creative. So here are four of the ones I've found.
I've decided that if I ever start a gaming channel, either this or Sound Remedy's instrumental "Video Games" will be my ending music. But I'm leaning toward this one :D And yes, the Monstercat policy will allow it in gaming content videos, as long as it's credited.
Here's a nice fresh one. It's not one of my all-time favorites, but it has a nice tone.
I dunno. I just really REALLY like this one. I either feel really relaxed or kinda pumped up when I listen to it. IT'S THE SUN GUYS SOMETIMES IT GIVES YOU ENERGY AND SOMETIMES YOU WANNA TAKE A NAP ON THE BEACH
Now this one has an anime girl for the cover art. This one really reminds me of Anime Bae. That's really all I can say about it...
Beeteedubs. Whoever wants to do a weekly post this week can just do so.
- Zi-Zi


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Jeffrey Brown talks to Charles Laughlin of the University of Virginia and Xiao Qiang at the University of California, Berkeley about prolific writer and Nobel Laureate Mo Yan, whose detractors cite a cozy relationship with Chinese state media and a savviness about staying away from topics sensitive to the Communist government.
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And for more on the writer and his work, we turn to Charles Laughlin, professor of Chinese literature and director of the East Asia Center at the University of Virginia. Xiao Qiang, chief editor of China Digital Times, he's also a professor new media and international freedom at the School of Information at the University of California at Berkeley.
And, Charles Laughlin, I want to start with you. Tell us about his work, about his themes. What's he writing about? What jumps out at you?
CHARLES LAUGHLIN, University of Virginia: Well, Xiao Qiang — is one of the major writers who came out of — onto the scene in 1980s after the beginning years of the era of reform and opening.
Many writers came out at that time influenced by Western literature, particularly magical realism from South America, and in Mo Yan's case, particular influence from the American writer William Faulkner. And many writers came out at that time, but not many have continued their careers and sustained them to the president day.
And Mo Yan is one of probably only three or four who have done so. And he is, among them one, probably that emphasizes his rural origins the most in terms of subject matter and the particular sort of coarse rural voice he maintains in his fiction.
Qiang Xiao, how well-known is he in China? What's his status there?
QIANG XIAO, University of California, Berkeley: Well, I think he's certainly an acclaimed author, very popular.
Even — I left China more than 20 years. I have heard his name and read his literature back in the '80s and '90s when I was in the United States. He's also apparently embraced by the Chinese state media, particularly for this particular receiving award event.
Fill in a little bit more, Charles Laughlin. So his writing is embraced, in a sense, by the people? How well-known — who would read him? How — what would be his relationship there to readers and the government?
Well, the position of literature in Chinese society has been marginalized in the last 15 years or so.
And so belonging to a group of serious writers, his greatest influence would be among those who are particularly interested in literature. A lot of people are reading detective novels and soap opera type of fiction. And so he wouldn't be appealing to them as much.
To sort of chime in though with what Xiao Qiang is saying, he is in the vice chairman of Chinese writers association and thus a government official.
Well, what does that mean in China?
That's a very good question, because critics, including Ai Weiwei, use this to sort of put across the idea that what he writes is not literary and he's just acting as a spokesperson for the government.
But I view him still, in terms of his literary productivity, as a sincere author who's writing about virtually everything that world authors write about. And his work is not without social and political criticism. It's just that he doesn't push some red buttons that authors since 1989, for example, have decided to no longer push in their work.
Well, Xiao Qiang, fill in a little bit of that for us, because here you have got the Chinese government celebrating. You have some dissident voices unhappy. What's going on there?
Well, first of all, I think I agree with what Charles just said about the literature accomplishment of Mo Yan. He's very prolific.
And his writing is original and in a sense seeking to — literature in-depth and make a remarkable contribution to Chinese literature and Chinese culture. That being said, he is not isolated from the social political reality. And he does hold a very cozy and official position in the system.
And some of the activity that he had done in the past generates such a controversial issue in terms of his politics. Here's an example, just very recent, this year. The Chinese government state official — the writers association has this campaign to have prominent writers to handwrite the copy of Mao's — one of the 1942 documents about how — what's the party's view on art and literature, and essentially saying that only the good — the bright side of society should be written about and be elaborated.
In that campaign, Mo Yan is part of it. He personally handwrites a copy of Maoist document and that is printed the book. In my view, that's very poor choice, considering Mao is personally responsible for destroying China's freedom of expression and the persecution of so many writers and intellectuals in the past.
That's been said. And Mo Yan is receiving a literature award. So we should judge him in terms of the merit of his literature accomplishment.
Well, but this, Charles Laughlin, goes to so many interesting cases of writers and artists' positions through history in different regimes, where it's difficult politics.
I have seen Mo Yan described as having a good sense of what he can and can't say without getting in trouble. Is that — does that sound — is that a fair description?
That is a fair description. And this shouldn't be mistaken for being a mouthpiece for government policy.
To give another example, what Xiao Qiang just referred to, this handwritten copies of part of Mao's talks at the Yenan Forum, this was probably not Mo Yan's initiative. It was probably an activity that was participated by most of the leadership or even the broader membership of the Chinese writers association.
This is a document that's considered to be of great historical importance to the Chinese Communist Party. And so his participation in it shouldn't be viewed necessarily as a particular statement in favor of government policy and especially not of the repression of freedom of speech.
What about — just stay with you. What about putting this in a larger context of a changing China and what writers are writing about these days?
You were saying that he was writing — most of his stories are set in rural areas about rural issues. Is he engaging, are others engaging more so now with the kind of changes that we hear about all the time?
He is, but I'm not sure he's keeping up as well as people of the younger generation, who are much more cosmopolitan and multilingual and savvy about world trends and technologically savvy.
Mo Yan is writing a lot of novels recently. He's published more prolifically in the last three or four years than he has before. And I have noticed that he tends to move from a rural focus in the earlier or mid part of the novel to generationally, maybe a more of a focus on the urban environment in the later stages of the novel.
But in so doing, he demonstrates a little bit less familiarity with that slice of contemporary Chinese life. And I think these younger writers are probably more in their you might say native habitat when they're writing about these things.
Xiao Qiang, a brief last word on that about how this fits into contemporary writing?
Well, I think it's very interesting to see how the Chinese state media lauded about his being — received this award, in contrast with the former two Chinese you mentioned that — one is Gao Xingjian, who is in exile, the government doesn't approve of his politics.
And another is a democracy champion, Liu Xiaobo. Interestingly, Mo Yan is his pen name. And his pen name literally in Chinese means don't speak. So, there's a popular Internet joke circulating on Chinese Internet right now saying, who is the first Chinese winner of a Nobel Prize? Don't speak. Who's the second Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner? Don't speak. And who's the third one? Don't speak.
This one, it is Mo Yan. But two other people are being banned in the Chinese official media and Chinese Internet.
All right, Xiao Qiang and Charles Laughlin, thanks, both, very much.
Thank you.


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Lindsey Brown started A Day N June as a strictly vintage pop-up shop that had a steady residency at Reservoir Hill favorite Dovecote Café. As she gained more of a following, she decided it was time for a change. She wanted a comfortable space for her customers to come drink wine, eat brownies, and enjoy themselves. So A Day N June transformed into a permanent showroom just north of Carroll Park. The new space is colorful, vibrant, and filled with tons of enviable artwork, which perfectly captures Brown's personality.
Since the grand opening last November, Brown has expanded to offer both vintage and new clothing in an effort to appeal to every type of woman and give customers the best of both worlds. We got a chance to sit down with Brown to discuss inspiration, her favorite country in the world, and why chokers should never go out of style.
How did you come up with A Day N June as the name of your store?
Lindsey Brown: I came up with the name because my birthday is June 5 and I'm a Gemini. So I wanted the brand to be about me and a true reflection of my personality.
How would you best describe A Day N June in one sentence?
LB: A Day N June is fun. I don't like anything that is boring, so there aren't any plain items in here. Everything has a color or a pattern that makes it interesting.
What is your favorite piece in your store right now?
LB: My favorite piece is a fur coat I call the Joanne the Scammer coat. It's unisex so there's so much you can do with it. I'm actually going to shoot it for the men's collection because I want to show the versatility of it.
What inspires you?
LB: Art and originality inspire me. For example, seeing how someone can take something simple and transform it into a whole look.
If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?
LB: I would live in Greece. I've never been there before but I imagine the olive oil is delicious and there are just olives, bread, and wine everywhere.
Finish this sentence: No outfit is complete without . . .
LB: Color.
What is your guilty pleasure?
LB: Chicken wings.
What is the last thing you splurged on?
LB: The last thing I splurged on was some vintage clothes. Specifically, this fur jacket that I'm obsessed with.
Name one fashion trend you hope never goes out of style.
LB: I hope chokers never go out of style. I love chokers; I wish they came back in style years ago. I'm like, "Why didn't I bring this trend back personally?"
Name one fashion trend that you hate.
LB: I don't like the guys' trend of wearing women's jeans. There's a limit to how tight a man's jeans should be.
Our Picks:
(Jeweled necklace, $15; suede cowgirl top, $18; button-down skirt, $20; Furby clutch, $36)


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Sounds simple enough, right? All they ask is that everyday for 100 days you submit a picture of something that makes you happy. Anything, anything at all, as long as it made you happy.
So what's up, why does this challenge exist? 100 Happy Days says it perfectly on their website,
"We live in a time when super busy schedules have become something to boast about. While the speed of life increases, there is less and less time to enjoy the moment that you are in. The ability to appreciate the moment, the environment, and yourself in it, is the base for the bridge towards long term happiness for any human being."The other amazing thing, according to 100happydays.com, 71% of participants failed this challenge quoting lack of time. Crazy, right?!
I love the idea of this challenge, and I would love it if anyone would like to join in on it with me. I am going to start June 1st, so if you would also like to start June 1st we can take on these 100 Happy Days together. Make sure to visit 100happydays.com to get all the details and register in the challenge. If you want to follow me along on my 100 happy days I will be sharing on instagram.
Do you accept the challenge?


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July 16, 1861
The Skirmish at Laurel Hill.
The "Examiner" makes the following extract from a letter written by a gentleman, an officer in the Richmond Sharp Shooters to his wife in this city. It is written from Laurel Hill, in Barbour county, under the date of the 7th inst., and gives some interesting details of the skirmish at that place. The writer says:
"On last night we heard firing all round our camp, and our men were kept constantly under arms. This morning our Regiment was ordered to the front, about 3 o'clock. Our company, which was in front, commenced firing, and kept up the fighting until night. Our men fought bravely, and have received the praise of every officer in the Regiment. Our loss was one killed:private Charles Goff. I was in fifteen yards of Goff when shot. He was shot through the head and died without a groan. He was an apprentice to Mr. R. H. Bosher, corner of 9th and Main streets. Capt. Harrison and private Bosher, of the Goochland Greys, were slightly wounded. Robert Jarvis came near being shot, a bullet passing through his haversack. The loss of the enemy is variously estimated, some saying that as many as twenty were killed and wounded.:The enemy left three dead on the field, and one of their captains and seven privates were captured by our men. The Georgia regiment was in the fight, and did their part in killing the Yankees.
We are looking for a general engagement every moment, though it may be delayed several days. Our men have every confidence in their leaders, and are in the best of spirits.
In the Lynchburg "Republican" we find the following account of the same engagement:
Barbour Co., July 7, 1861
DEAR REPUBLICAN: Just at the close of a most exciting day, I take advantage of a few leisure moments to inform you of the events which have made it important. This morning at 6 o'clock, we were informed that the enemy had advanced in full force up the road from Phillippi, and were then only two miles from our camp. Citizens who came in reported that their trains, wagons, artillery and men filled the road for a distance of nearly two miles.
The Georgia Regiment, Col. Ramsey, was sent out one mile in advance to meet them and about 8 o'clock three companies of the Regiment encountered about the same number of the enemy, who were deployed in the woods. An irregular fire was kept up until 11 o'clock, at which time the Georgia boys succeeded in driving he enemy back to the main body of the army. But one man was wounded on our side, and that a flesh wound in the leg. The enemy shot very badly. Our men report eleven of the enemy killed and a number wounded.
A young boy in the Georgia Regiment killed one of the enemy, who was in advance and separated from the rest, and he immediately ran up and took his gun (Minnie musket) and accoutrements.
This evening, the Twenty-third Virginia Regiment was sent out to relieve the Georgians. Firing commenced at 2 o'clock and continued until 8, P.M. I was present during the whole time, on the ground. About ten steps from me, one of Captain Harrison's men was shot through the shoulder. The ball passed entirely through and entered the coat of Captain H., who was a little in the rear. One of the Richmond Sharp Shooters was shot through the head and instantly killed. The enemy lost in the evening about fifteen men and some wounded. I saw a good many of them fall.
The enemy were very near:just at the edge of the woods in which our men were deployed, and we could hear them talking distinctly; they kept up a continual yell, using all kinds of profane language. One man I saw mount upon the fence, wave his hat, with three cheers for Lincoln and groans for Jefferson Davis, but before he had given them, a ball from one of the Sharp Shooters ended him.
To night our men will rest in the trenches, and we expect to be attacked at daylight by the whole force of the enemy. They are 10,000 strong with artillery. McClellen is supposed to be in command. We can maintain our position.
Our men acted with great coolness and bravery, and are anxious for the enemy to show themselves again.
Gen. Garnett directed all the movements of the day, and every one has perfect confidence in his judgment and military skill.
This evening our men buried one of the enemy, whose body was left in the field in the morning. He was from Indiana. They were in the midst of the enemy's bullets while putting him in his grave.
The fight at Laurel Hill.
an authentic account.
A Sharp day's work.
[special correspondence of the Dispatch.]
July 15, 1861
The fight at Laurel Hill.
an authentic account.
A Sharp day's work.
[special correspondence of the Dispatch.]
Laurel Hill. Barbour county, July 7.
Another fight and success so far with the Confederate troops. Before daybreak this morning (Sunday,) the troops at this camp were aroused by the firing of the picket guard, and in a short time our men were in line and ready for service. About light another volley was fired, apparently about a mile from our camp and the excitement was increased by the rapid movement of the Georgia Regiment and the cavalry. Finally orders came for us to take proper positions, that the enemy was advancing upon us, and that the Georgia Regiment had fired upon them and held them in check. This regiment kept up a fire upon them until about 3 o'clock, killing four or five of the enemy, and receiving in turn only one men wounded, slightly.
At 3 o'clock, the Georgians were marched off and the 23D Regiment took its place, on the brow of a hill to a very short distance of the Yankees. The 23D remained on the ground until dark, when they were relieved by the 27.
The 23d under the command of its brave and able commander, Colonel Taliaferro, behaved with coolness and courage worthy of veterans. The Sharpshooters, Capt. Tompkins, of Richmond, were selected as the advance corps, and took up their position within two hundred yards of the enemy, and acting as skirmishers, took to the woods and done their duty faithfully and well. In fact, they being the only company armed with this, they had to bear the brunt of the fighting.
This company, as soon as they were stationed, commenced a rapid fire on the enemy, which was as promptly returned; but fortunately with little execution to us. The fire was kept up until 7 o'clock, at which time we were relieved I cannot particularize any one who performed the most service, where all done so well, not only in this corps, but in the whole regiment. Our loss is Chas. W. Goff a citizen of Richmond, who was shot through the head, and was killed instantly; Captain Tompkins received a slight scratch on the nose, which, by the way, is a very prominent feature,) caused by a splinter; Corporal Ro. H. Jarvia received a ball through his haversack, cutting through his "grub," and the same ball struck against the leg of Sergeant J. W. L Jones, without, however, doing any injury; Sergeant Bosher, of the Goochland Greys, received a flesh wound in the arm, and the same ball made a mark on the breast of Captain Harrison, of the same corps. The enemy's loss is estimated at 25 killed. How many wounded could not be ascertained.
The firing is still carried on by the 27th Regiment, our men now being in the trenches, sleeping on their arms, expecting to go at it again to-morrow.
The enemy commenced their work with yells and cheers, swearing and using all kinds of vulgar language, which our troops replied to by well aimed bullets and a determination to rather than yield. I have not time to write any more to-night, but will give you particulars when the battle is ended. Ned P. S.--It has been reported in Richmond by an enemy of two of the members of the Sharp Shooters that they were to be shot for sleeping on their posts. The report is false, and I take pleasure in correcting it, to relieve the minds of the parents of the two individuals alluded to. Ned. July 15
Additional Particulars.
[special correspondence of the Dispatch.]
Additional Particulars.
[special correspondence of the Dispatch.]
We continue the intelligence from our special correspondent, commenced on the first page.
Laurel Hill, Barbour co., July 9th, 1861.
I wrote you a short account of the engagement the command of Gen. Garnett and the enemy had a few days since, and have since learned additional particulars.
The force of the enemy is estimated at between 7,000 and 8,000, and advanced from Phillippi on Saturday and took up a position on a hill about a mile and a half from our post, which, however, is obstructed from the view of our troops by a still higher hill directly between them and ourselves. On learning of their advance, our General checked their advance by taking possession of a hill to the left of them, and on Sundaymorning about daybreak the two commenced operations, our force consisting of only one company of Georgians and theirs' of a larger number, constituting the advance guard. This company held their own until about 2 o'clock, when they were relieved by the 23d Regiment, (Col Taliaferro.) The Georgians succeeded in killing five or six of the enemy, but received from them not even a scratch, although the Yankees kept up a severe fire upon them.
On the arrival of Col. Taliaferro's command, the Richmond Sharp-Shooters, being armed with superior arms, were placed in advance, and took up a position closer than that occupied by the Georgia company. The company had no sooner taken their proper place, when they opened briskly on the foe, which was returned as briskly; but few of the return shots did any execution, save to nerve us to extra exertion. We continued our fire until relieved by Col. Fulkerson's Washington County Regiment, at 7 o'clock. The Sharp-Shooters succeeded in killing between 25 and 30 of the enemy. Our loss was private Charles H. Goff, of Richmond city, killed instantly, and Captain Harrison and Sergeant Thad. Bosher, of the Goochland Grays, slightly wounded.
In alluding to this company, I do not wish, nor is it my desire to detract from the remainder of the regiment, for a braver set of men can scarcely be found; but in the engagement of Sunday, they could not, with the arms they have, have reached the enemy, being too far off, nor could they have gotten a closer position. In fact, the whole regiment done its duty faithfully and well, and I believe will ever continue to do so. It is composed of the following companies and officers: The Amelia Grays, Capt. Perkinson; Brooklyn (Halifax) Grays, Capt. Hames; Louisa Grays, Capt. Sergeant; Frederick Hall Grays, Capt. Coleman; Goochland Grays, Captain Harrison; Central (Prince Edward) Guard, Capt. Hughes; Keysville (Charlotte) Guard, Capt. Walton; Amelia Rifles, Capt. Scott; Louisa Rifles, Capt. Walton, and the Richmond Sharp-Shooters, Captain R A. Tompkins, all under the command of Col. Wm. B. Taliaferro, with the following assistants: James R. Crenshaw, of Richmond, Lieutenant Colonel; Jos. Pendleton, Maj.; W. B. Pendleton, of Louisa, Adjutant; Dr. Wm. A. Carrington, of Charlotte, Surgeon; Dr. Jacob M. Deems, of the same county, Assistant Surgeon; Dr. Winston, of Louisa, Quartermaster : all good and true men, who have the confidence and respect of all the command. The Surgeons are attentive and well skilled, and do all in their power to relieve those who suffer from sickness, and have been fortunate, so far in their restoration of a number of patients.--The Hospital Steward, Dr. Angle, also deserves credit for the manner in which he performs his laborious duty.
The firing was continued all night by the regiment of Col. Fulkerson, with but little execution, however, as the night was very dark Certainly none of our troops were injured.
This regiment in turn was relieved by the gallant Georgians, under Col. Ramsey, at daybreak Mondaymorning, who, until a late hour in the day, kept up a continual fire upon them, and succeeded in killing six of the Yankees and taking a Lieutenant prisoner. The number of them wounded of course cannot be ascertained. The Georgians left the ground in the afternoon, with not a man killed or even a scratch.
During the latter part of the day the enemy fired a number of bomb shells, grape-shots and balls in the direction of our troops, playing havoc with the trees and shrubbery, not in the least damaging any of our men, but with a loss to them of a large amount of powder. In consequence of the rapid discharge of artillery, our General sent out two regiments (the 23d and 20th) to sustain the Georgians, but they did not succeed in getting a chance at the enemy, and during the night retired from the field, with the hope of inducing the foe to follow them, so as to get them in the range of our artillery. It is supposed that our infantry and rifles had done such execution among them that the enemy got his "bile" up a little and let loose his big dogs of war, which, however, proved as harmless as his leaden pups.
The firing is still going on, (12 o'clock, Tuesday,) but I have not heard what damage has been done. How long we are to continue this brush fighting it is hard to tell, but our troops are getting weary of it and are exceedingly anxious to get them in a face to face battle, and thus decide the contest. I should have stated that the Yankees keep behind fences, brush, stumps, and have taken a log house, from which they have good shots at us. But for this, we would give you a larger number of their dead to record.
The Danville Artillery, as fine a body of men as can be seen anywhere, under the command of the gallant Captain Shoemaker, has not, as yet, had an opportunity of showing its hand; but when it gets a chance, the enemy may well look out, as the men are restless and eager for the fray.
A member of the Georgia Regiment was accidentally killed in camp, by the discharge of his piece, on Sundaymorning. His name I could not learn. His remains, and those of private Goff, were interred yesterday with military honors.
The commander of the Yankee troops, I have not yet learned. Their troops are poorly clad, and appear to be of the lowest class of humanity, who, it seems, it would be doing the world a blessing to relieve of.
I shall give you farther accounts as they transpire. The Dispatch is so much sought after that the Postmasters on the route take particular pains that they never reach their destination. Soldiers suffer enough without being deprived of the pleasure of hearing from home : so give them a "talk" in your columns. Ned.
Timeline of West Virginia: Civil War and Statehood: July 1861


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My hope is that this brief set of considerations sheds some light for the astrological enthusiast into some of the inner workings of astrology, in a way that helps create a more solid footing with regard to the shape of astrology today, so that it can be navigated with more purpose, clarity, and enjoyment. Also, … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2018
This Dark Moon / This Cardinal Moment
There are currently six planetary bodies in the sign of Capricorn. The Moon is dark. Tomorrow a new lunar cycle is initiated with a tremendous thrust of energy quietly emanating from a concentrated space of sky. This saturation of the sign Capricorn happens at a time when the awareness and output of people, plants and … Continue reading
5 Stand-Out Astrological Events in January 2018
Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner — what is it? if not intensified sky, hurled through with birds and deep with the winds of homecoming – Rainer Maria Rilke 1. Uranus Stations Direct — January 2, 2018 — An Impulse … Continue reading