Celebrating Our Differences
Say the word, “patience,” and your soul hears you. Immediately, you are encouraged to slow down and let the universe move you. ( I think it’s that soft “c” in the word). Then why is it so hard to take the action to…wait? We fuss and cuss to…
Happy New Year!! Choice. This is the year we will make many socio-political choices; we will also make personal choices that effect our living. My year-end Garden Spices trip to Barbados set the plate for how I will enter into 2016. The traffic dangerous, the local people unfriendly,…
Light your candles; bake your turkeys, dance in the streets to celebrate your holiday season, whatever it is. No matter what we do to unfold and revel in the holidays, family is at the core of it. Garden Spices Contributors make it clear that family means much more…
We are shifting. Whew!! These are the days folks are calling on their Higher Self to get by. It doesn’t matter what your faith tradition or if you don’t have one. Wisdom is the invocation. We seek the discernment to do what is right for us and for…
Last year, Garden Spices embarked upon a mission: … to explore and celebrate diversity through the lens of people of various ethnicity, beliefs, genders, physical and mental abilities in hopes of finding the core of understanding and realization that we are all part of a universal garden. A year later, I am…
Madanlal was a strong and powerful businessman who was an expert in his industry. His community appreciated his knowledge of business and the way he built his empire. His wife, Mayavati, was very good as a homemaker and caregiver, and she was also a powerful administrator for the…
We are grabbing it by the handfuls. “Delight, pleasure, bliss, glee, exuberance, happiness, treasure, wonder, treat, prize… so many words to express JOY, ” according to Managing Editor, Pratik Mamtora. Garden Spices feels it through honoring our family, through our spiritual walk, remembrances, and in the case of…
I’ve always had a grudge against change. As soon as I settle into a level of comfort or despair, something unrecognizable or RECOGNIZABLE happens and smacks me upside my head to make a move! That’s what change does. It moves and shakes us up, allows us to expand…
There is no way to encapsulate the word “Strength.” Mamas that grieve loved ones feel the hue of being strong differently from daddies that have stood for children in tough love. Yet, we have all had the opportunity to stand on the power of this word. Take for…
Ok. I give up! There is no way to predict the outcome of an issue of Garden Spices Magazine, which is what the magic of this mission is all about. I throw out a word, and the Contributors digest it and express what they feel about the word…