Celebrating Our Differences
Today, it occurs to me that perhaps I have been “resting “a bit too much from writing for Garden Spices. You see, words have become challenging for me during the past year. May I please explain? Several years ago, I was diagnosed with “Early Macular Degeneration .”Now, as 2022…
Pause. Don’t move forward. Don’t look back. Stop. Collect yourself, OOyour thoughts and emotions, OOall of you. Give yourself OOto the moment. Let your breath OOcatch up with you. Let it find its way OOwith you. Set your body OOat ease. Shift your consciousness OOinto idle. Invite Time…
Five years ago Amber Wess was keeping her God-child and cooked seafood for her family dinner. Bellies full, mouths began to wag about the delicious meal and to request that sWess start selling plates. Wess then developed a daily menu including meat, fish, seafood, and sides. Licensed and…
Deep Breathing: Christine “Liz” Larue We are living in stressful times. Not a day goes by without hearing some story on the news that causes one to catch your breath. You hear about some issue you grit your teeth about; it could be some political snafu, your boss…
As we begin 2023, imagine what the world – your life – could be like if we gave fear a rest. A long rest, a longer than a day rest. Fear mongering has surpassed fever pitch and has created schisms and disunity on a global and…
There is nothing more beautiful than Indigo, the mystical color of wisdom, intuition, and spirituality. The Indigo workshop held by the Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, Tuscumbia, AL was enlivened by the stamps of pattern, and the magic of working in this medium with designer, Nadene Mairesse. Of…
About the Artist: Pamella Allen is a Jamaican-born, Brooklyn-based visual artist in practice for over 30 years whose works have been exhibited in traditional gallery and non-traditional settings, in site-specific public art corporate commissions for healing spaces such as Bellevue Hospital for the HHC Art-In-Medicine program, community…
The sky was afire, showing off what colours of blush she could afford our compliments. A golden smear here, a bronze dusting there. Tangerine followed closely. The sky was full of peace. She loudly said nothing but truly beautiful, heavenly soft poetic puffs of glowing cloud. She showed…
We had a visit from Carla Renae and her wonderful cookin’ for my daughter, Camille’s, Birthday. She told us she was meatless for a minute. Here are two recipes she cooked, yellow and yummy! – Victorine SugarPearl’s, LLC | Charlotte, NC Lambchops recipe: www.sugarpearlsonline.com |…
(There are about 20 young people in my house constructing Vision Boards. Me? Teeing up for passing out.) “Everyone who knows me understands that if they sit me down with a throw to cover me, I‘m gone. If folks visit me, they know what to expect; my…