Appreciation and Abundance - Earth Day celebrate

I hope you all had a bright and blessed wesak weekend and time to reflect and contemplate - on Sunday I went with Roma to Cartama market and guess what I see shrugs in the same style as I originally did 2 years ago humph!!!! except of course mine are much nicer LOL, so gonna rattle of a few more in cotton as the market ones are all a little tacky looking and they seem to be only in size 8 to, which is a little unfair to the majority!! Yesterday was 5 hours at La Era, what a nice bunch of dudes they are too, then home to add a few inches to Roma's 2 jackets before meeting up with her at 7 as she was on her way back to the airport, so today is a semi lazy day - as always she has a bag of assorted food goodies left over from her stay and a bunch of beautiful perfumed roses from her garden, so after she left we decided to treat ourselves beer for D and a nice bottle of rioja for me and when we unpacked her goodies there was fresh oak smoked wild salmon which she must have brought from Ireland along with one of my favourite breads Irish wheat bread - what a splendid tapas we had - and to think on Friday we had 8€ to last us until the beginning of next month, yep even got paid from Frank, so life is good to us as always LOL - oh yeah and Dolores came round with a pot of albondigas on Sat {she did the same last year, there is a glut of produce at this time of year}- amazing how it can "appear" that we have nothing and yet have soooooooo much........
After several days of rain the sun has returned and I have never seen the mountains look so splendid and another whoosh of wild flowers blooming bold patches of poppies amongst the green fields, the orange blossom is just beginning so journeys down the mountain will be heavily perfumed - wide open windows and inhaling deeply mmmmmmm - not difficult to remember Earth Day today :)

Please make yourself a note to schedule 2 minutes on Tues. April 22 "to stop & genuinely focus on the feeling of appreciation & gratitude for our beautiful planet."

=== WHY APPRECIATION ? ===

"Appreciation is a powerful emotion with scientifically proven benefits. This one emotion has been shown to positively impact our entire system - from our attitudes & immune system to our heart & mental clarity.

Appreciation means to be thankful, or express feelings of admiration, approval & gratitude. It also means something has increased in value. By consciously applying appreciation, the value of your life & relationships increase. The bottom line is that we take better care of the things we appreciate. The more we focus on appreciation for our planet, the more we'll value & care for our planet."

Please watch the movie here: http://heartmath.com/million_hearts/


Well Legend of Atlantis turned into tooooooo much oh dear lost the plot completely and my attention, to much abuse of the fear syndrome especially apocalypse and as I write this I have just found this wee snippet.......

"apocalypse." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. Retrieved October 22, 2006, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/apocalypse

[Middle English Apocalipse, from Late Latin Apocalypsis, from Greek apokalupsis, revelation, Apocalypse, from apokaluptein, to uncover : apo-, apo- + kaluptein, to cover; see kel-1 in Indo-European Roots.]

[Origin: 1125–75; ME : LL apocalypsis : Gk apokálypsis revelation, equiv. to apokalýp(tein) to uncover, reveal (apo- apo- + kalýptein to cover, conceal) + -sis -sis]

In otherwords, what we have here is a word that has been sorely perverted and abused in a way that it was never meant to be used.

The word apocalypse means "the unveiling" - not death, carnage or destruction. It has nothing to do with those other two ridiculous, provincial and juvenile terms (ie. armageddon; judgement day). In these current times, the so called apocalypse is something wonderful that I look forward to with a big smile on my face and lots of enthusiasm.

As for those who adhere to the traditional delinquent notion of an apocalypse, you will die at the hand of your own gestapo propaganda - {origin}

BUT I still advocate everyone watching Secret Rulers
some very interesting points to ponder - and don't forget you can check the facts that they give if it leaves you incredulous or doubting!!!! My father was in " intelligence " and I remember him telling me once about how the mass of people don't know the half of what goes on and the faces we see telling us what is going on is mostly all front.........
well tis time for me to make a move and take some crochet round to Pat as she is off to Belamadena market tomorrow and no rain is forecast so it's a goer this week and hopefully I shall have some sales then I will go down next week - then down to the bins where the stray cats hang out, real treats for them today with the skin of the salmon, we have cut it into strips so no fighting LOL
have a great earth day everyone remember to smile :)