Peace must be one of the most grounding roses I know. In some of my toughest moments Peace has centered me.
Tag: Well-being
Life-lessons from a rose
A rose’s story This is the last surviving rose bush in my small garden. About seven years ago, she was destined to be discarded. But the gardener, unbeknown to me found a place for her in a secluded overgrown section of a garden bed. Here, unnoticed, she took time out to recover and started to…
My take on those ‘Before’ photos
Society’s morbid fascination with ‘before’ Society can often have a morbid fascination with whatever physical acceptability or perfection is perceived to be. We hear of body-shaming stories all the time. These can be directed at us from others, or even worse, at us from ourselves … It’s not what you say to everyone else that…
The journey to healthy weight loss starts with ‘Why’
When ‘What’ comes before ‘Why’ How many times when weight loss crops up in a conversation, is the first question often asked, “So what are you allowed to eat?” After which we start listing the items that ‘The Diet’ prescribes we should eat – as well as when, and how much … This drives me…
Thriving or surviving?
Yesterday I spotted the first rose of summer in my garden. A soft pink bloom on a bush that I bought and planted only one year ago. This will be its first settled season. This morning I went out for a closer inspection and on one floribunda bush only – counted 65 buds waiting to…
A Rose-Scented Life 