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This Issue: Boundaries!

Painting Title: FearlessMedium: Acrylics, collage on canvas.Dimensions: 50cm x 50cm#amsterdam #london #beirut #saudiarabia #dubai #chilliartprojects Loved Ones, What are your Boundaries? Do they relate to your gender, race, relationships, business, creative work, your mind, body, spirit, or all of the above? If we are to exercise self-care, we…

Watch Yourself! This My Space

Boundary: That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent; that which marks a bound, as of a territory. Want to have some fun? You know I’m kind of mischievous, so you in? We could see this as an exercise in life, an experiment in human behavior. So, the…

Boundaries

Webster’s dictionary defines a boundary as “something that indicates or fixes a limit or extent.”  Boundaries are funny things. Depending on how we exercise, they can include, exclude, divide, protect, or even limit. During the pandemic, most of us set boundaries to protect ourselves. We have maintained some of those…

SugarPearl’s: Zaalouk!

SugarPearl’s Studio Kitchen LIVE Zaalouk is a North African salad of eggplant and tomatoes. The roasted eggplant is combined with tomatoes and seasoned with spices and garlic. #eatgoodsugar SugarPearl’s, LLC | Charlotte, NC: www.sugarpearlsonline.com | carla@sugarpearlsonline.com Facebook LIVE: Carla Renea and SugarPearl’s | Instagram: sugarpearls_online | YouTube: SugarPearl’s…

This Issue: Rest!

Happy New Moment! My annual greeting for the New Year invites another moment to contemplate/activate our existence, to live and love strong. One of the chief Contributors to the mission of Garden Spices, Author, Humanitarian, Entrepreneur, Activist, and Advocate for all things positive and just, Susan Peters, transitioned…

This Issue: Serve!

  Always ready to go serve!  Susan Peters Loved Ones! This is the season of gratitude and gifts, but Garden Spices is celebrating the most powerful contribution we can give to society – the ability to serve. Perhaps you recognize the woman featured on our cover, Susan Peters. She is…

Called to Serve

To serve is a daunting task. It’s okay not to be okay. It’s okay not to be able to resolve your own personal, professional, health care, or family difficulties/distresses/disasters. It’s okay not to understand or fix the political quagmire that is the United States of America. It’s okay…

Serving a Permanent Sentence

While the word ‘Serve’ has many meanings, in the context of this commentary, we ponder what serving one’s time in prison means and whether the time served intersects with eventual redemption. Hundreds of thousands of men and women serve prison sentences for wrongful acts they have committed. They…

This Issue: Vote!

    Loved Ones, Two months until we vote in the USA. In two months, we exercise a right that has been fought for, trampled over, given, and taken away. Yet, many of us choose to close our eyes to it – we choose not to Vote. Yet,…

This Issue: Mental!

  Painting by Artist, Brenda Davis, (1962-2022) What an Anniversary!! Loved Ones, We celebrate eight years of Garden Spices Magazine with a topic relevant to the news of these days – “Mental.” Mental, as in one’s faculties, health, disorders – anything relating to the mind. We understand that…