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December 17, 2009 03:06 AM EST --
The snow flakes fall like messengers from heaven. Each carries a memory of the old year or a wish for the new. Under the falling snow there is a silence so profound that if I dared dwell in it, . . .
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November 20, 2009 03:40 AM EST --
The trees have lost their leaves and the water birds have flown south. Nature has made a space which feels like it needs filling. It isn't so strange that we choose this barren time of year for giving . . .
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October 16, 2009 03:59 AM EDT --
Mrs. Bengtsson's wide smile issues from under her garden hat. Her head vibrates unwillingly back and forth. This is the mark that age has left on her person in order to signify that here walks . . .
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October 06, 2009 10:26 AM EDT --
Once upon a time, not very long ago, our considerations of what we ate were driven by what was available to eat in our surroundings, what the season delivered, what we knew how to prepare and what was . . .
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September 15, 2009 11:11 AM EDT --
Strings of gold grow from the hanging birch. There can be no tree that succumbs so gracefully to the end of the season as this one. The fish swim in the reflection of this tree’s last grand . . .
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September 04, 2009 01:51 PM EDT --
Hi Everyone,
Did you know that it is because water behaves in 66 ways that man cannot explain that there is life on earth? In the new Water: Source of Life issue of my free e-magazine, www.nordicwellbeing.com . . .
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July 21, 2009 03:17 AM EDT --
The even, calm smell of bees’ wax fills the air in the small house where I have harvested the first of this summer’s honey. The centrifuge, my main tool for extracting the honey from the intricate . . .
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June 19, 2009 04:46 AM EDT --
Birch branches decorate every portal and the marguerites form small islands of play on freshly mowed lawns. The multi-colored lupine shoot their way out of the earth to be ready in time for tucking into . . .
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June 02, 2009 02:54 PM EDT --
Hi Gather Friends,
So often humans are portrayed as being in conflict with nature. What we forget is that we are a part of it and that simple shift in perception could well go a long way to solving . . .
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May 20, 2009 05:10 AM EDT --
I hop in the jeep and barely notice the complaint screeching from the rusty car door hinges. Like an old dame who has seen a lot of life, my jeep freely expresses her opinion. Like another resolute . . .
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May 14, 2009 02:01 AM EDT --
Hello dear friends at Gather.
It has occurred to me recently that what many of us our doing here at Gather is helping one another to learn to live. That can sound patronising but isn't given the . . .
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April 18, 2009 04:13 AM EDT --
Up on the hill overlooking my new neighborhood in a field that hasn't been plowed for centuries, I close my eyes and greet the morning. The noise of the traffic from the main road below . . .
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March 16, 2009 11:28 AM EDT --
Hello Friends at Gather,
I just wanted to welcome you to the March issue of my free e-magazine, www.nordicwellbeing.com, which takes a look at the renewed importance of home in these difficult . . .
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March 16, 2009 11:11 AM EDT --
As I pack the sprouted tulip bulbs into pots at the front steps of my home, I'm quietly humming one of the songs from this weekend's Musikfestivalen (Music Festival) final. I'm not . . .
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February 22, 2009 03:02 AM EST --
It is an intense, sunny day out on the ice in front of my island home. The mature winter sun slowly gets her way over the cold temperature and the thin crust of snow on the surface of the ice . . .
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February 15, 2009 06:28 AM EST --
As the daylight hours grow longer here in the cold North, I've begun thinking about my garden and all of the plans that I have for it this 2009. The only problem is that gardening can be an expensive . . .
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February 15, 2009 05:59 AM EST --
This being Valentine's Day weekend, I know that I should perhaps be throwing some oysters, clams and other libido-promoting foods into my pots. I cannot help it, though, I'm stuck on quite different . . .
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January 18, 2009 05:00 AM EST --
After a long day of feeding my own and other people's children yesterday, I asked my husband whether he can remember feeling as a child that there were all sorts of things he could not eat. I had . . .
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January 02, 2009 09:44 AM EST --
It was something that could neither be created nor destroyed and I had just tuned into it. That voice was love.
I'm posting snippets from the memoir I am writing which will be available . . .
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December 17, 2008 10:40 AM EST --
It's that time of year when a reflective mood begins to sweep across the earth. The year is done. It will never come back again. Yet the prospect of a new time is ahead of us. For myself, . . .
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