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Nettle and Lavender Seeds Sprouting--Supporting Our ReFIREMENT

Can you be too excited about seeds sprouting--NO!! Nancy and I started writing this blog several years ago and have been gratified and encouraged by the positive responses we've received.

We are now taking a few more simple steps in our own reFIREMENT. We started by assessing our present resources and among them was the big yard surrounding this house on three sides. Another our ability to risk and stay close to the edge. Another our creativity.

Our Healingwitherbs project is just at the very beginning. A bed is dug. Some nettle seeds planted in a recycled plastic salad container (a great reusable tabletop greenhouse) are beginning to sprout. Some lavender seeds are sprouting. Holy Basil seeds have been ordered. So for under $20.00 we will see what returns we can acheive. It is SOOOOOOOOOOO exciting--what all will come from those little seeds.

A high school mate has already shown what she can do in reFIREMENT. See this website http://www.yahsbest.com/. Suzanne, who is Yah, organically grows the vegetables for and bottles salsas and more. Can't wait to visit her farm and taste this summer.

In the warmth and light of reFIREMENT, all kinds of seeds can grow lending validation to a new abundant life.

 

Bone Health and Nettles

Susun Weed, that long time guru herbalist writes in this article about the connection between bone health and nettles. Nettles Article.

There is no reason that women should worry about disintregrating bones with the right nutrition and exercise. Stinging nettles can help as well as oat straw and other herbs and foods such as sea veggies--which are yummy as well. I love to make a cold salad from Arame and light sweet vinagers.

"Waste Not" A Glimpse of Beijing Hutong Life by an Almost Baby Boomer

An Ultimate in Savings

 Song Dong, one of China's most inventive artists and only two years short of official Baby Boomerdom, being born in 1966 the start of the Cultural Revolution,   has made from his mother's life and her art of saving and recycling, a wonderful installation art project that is on display at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC running through Sept 21.

"When Mr. Song's father died, in 2002, his mother was inconsolable. She continued to live in the jammed Beijing house, throwing nothing away and obsessively bringing more stuff in it, as if continuing to feather a nest for a now-absent family. And despite the fact that surrounding area was threatened with destruction, she would make no move that entailed parting with her possessions."

For nearly 60 years she lived in the city with her husband and two children in a tiny house crammed with domestic odds and ends — clothes, books, kitchen utensils, toiletries, school supplies, shopping bags, rice bowls, dolls — which were used, then recycled, then indiscriminately hoarded. Now the entire cache, every odd button and ballpoint pen, is at MoMA, along with Ms. Zhao’s fridge and bed.

See this article in the NYTimes about Song Dong's mother's life and what she saved from hutong life in Beijing.
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