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18/09/2025

Thursday Thoughts: on honey
"Honey is the nectar of the gods."
[commonly cited as a quote from Aristotle]
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16/09/2025

GratiTuesday – Gratitude for 5th Season
GratiTuesday Greetings! Loving late summer this year, as is usual for me. Celebrating every outdoor moment, preferably on the beach. Ignoring the all-too-early introduction of all things pumpkin-spice and Halloween. Insisting on summer’s presence right up until the autumnal equinox, and even then soaking up every ray of sunlight like a squirrel stashing its stores for the cold, dark season to come.
Late summer is held as The Fifth Season in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Joseph Cardillo, Ph.D., a research psychologist specializing in mind-body medicine, shines some light on the influence of the seasons on our psyche - individually and collectively - as well as for our personal physical health and well-being. He writes, in a HuffPost article, "The Promise of the Five Seasons", of our innate connection to Nature. Acknowledging each season’s particular sensibility offers us an opportunity to intentionally connect and flow with the rhythmic cycles of nature.
Spring: Embrace the Power of New Beginnings
Summer: Create Abundance
Late Summer: Gain Rootedness
Autumn: Find the Justice of Letting Go
Winter: Dream of Quietude
Late Summer is at the center of this cycle. It is the fulcrum point around which the other four seasons revolve. It invites a pause for reflection and assessment in between the cycles of growth and decay so one may become grounded. In so doing, Cardillo asserts , “You see who you have been, who you are and who you want to be.”
The Fifth Season’s invitation - for many of us this year - is essential to resetting from the upset of recent events. Consider taking a brief respite from present-day concerns to realign with “who you are and who you want to be.” Rest assured that these late summer ‘fruits’ create the ideal set up for Autumn, Winter and the coming spring.
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11/09/2025

On this day we pause to remember the victims, their families, and the responders of September 11th
photo credit: Jin S. Lee

11/09/2025

Thursday Thoughts: on kind words
“Kind words are like honey, sweet to the soul and healthy to the body.” ~ Proverbs 16:24
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09/09/2025

GratiTuesday – Gratitude for Awareness
It is GratiTuesday… right now. Another benefit of practicing gratitude - however you choose to do so - is that in so doing, in each moment of the gratitude practice, you are fully present. This type of present moment awareness is fundamental to delivering its much sought after benefits such as reduced anxiety, decreased depression and more restful sleep.
Michelle DeWitt expands upon this theme in an article written for The Panchamama Alliance entitled, “10 Questions To Bring More Awareness To Your Gratitude Practice.” She briefly explores the pitfalls of a culture that values immediate gratification and materialism, and then offers the antidote; letting go of past disappointments and future expectations through a present moment gratitude practice.
"...the type of peacefulness and happiness that comes from within is significantly more fulfilling and sustainable than happiness obtained externally.” Michelle DeWitt / panchamama.org
Thankfully, Michelle provides a list of 10 prompts to redirect our attention:�
1. What relationships am I thankful for?�
2. What am I grateful for that I learned about myself the past year?�
3. What activities am I grateful for?� ... ... ...
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04/09/2025

Thursday Thoughts: on friends
"A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside."
~ Winnie The Pooh
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02/09/2025

GratiTuesday – Gratitude for Honey Month

On this GratiTuesday, I find myself delighting in the golden glow of one of nature’s most perfect gifts: honey. That’s right - it’s National Honey Month! Throughout September, we celebrate honey, the bees who make it, and the hardworking beekeepers who care for them.

National Honey Month was established back in 1989 by the National Honey Board… Why September? Because that is when the honey collection season winds down, as bees begin to tuck into their hives and prepare for winter. It is the perfect moment to pause, appreciate, and savor this miracle of nature before the chill sets in.

And oh, what a miracle it is. Did you know that 1 hive - home to about 70,000 bees—may travel up to 55,000 miles and visit over 2 million flowers just to make a single pound of honey?… Honey bees pollinate 1/3 of the foods we eat. Imagine life without apples, almonds, onions, or watermelon. Yikes! Bees truly keep our plates colorful and our bellies full.

But there’s trouble in paradise. Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has caused devastating losses, wiping out up to 90% of bees in some hives. It is a sobering reminder that our buzzing friends need us as much as we need them. The good news? We can help. Little choices, like skipping pesticides in our gardens or supporting local beekeepers, ripple outward in big ways… That’s community. That’s connection. That is gratitude in action! …

So, how can we celebrate this month of golden goodness? Here are a few ideas:
Buy local honey…
Plan a bee-friendly garden for next spring…
Or better yet, gift them a jar of local honey!

As we lean into autumn, let’s savor the sweetness of the season and the tiny creatures who make it possible. Bees be buzzing, honey be flowing, and gratitude be growing. Because without honeybees, life just wouldn’t be as sweet.

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26/08/2025

GratiTuesday – Greatfull for Gratitude
Happy GratiTuesday. This is a day for contemplating gratitude. On this Tuesday I am greatful.
Yes, yes, yes. I realize ‘greatful’ is not an actual word, but I do enjoy playing with words. Which is not to say that I lack an appropriate appreciation for language. On the contrary, I have a deep reverence for words. How we choose them, use them, and understand them.
In the case of ‘greatful’, it is my understanding this word is frequently intended to convey gratitude, but has been spelled incorrectly. I wonder. I wonder whether the magnitude of gratitude experienced by the speller spilled over, indicating the one communicating was, or is, full of great gratitude; greatful.
The error in transcription could easily extend to an additional ‘l’ at the end; as in ‘greatfull.’ Indicating fullness. Great fullness. Completely full of extraordinary gratitude; greatfull.
Quick! Call Funk and Wagnalls. We have a new submission for their consideration.
In all seriousness, how would you express extraordinary gratitude in a single word? For my money, ‘greatfull’ gets the job done. For example, I am truly greatfull you have read this deeply into my silly essay. I am also greatfull for all the words that are, including standard language, of course, as well as all those terms fantastically fabricated for specificity of purpose.
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21/08/2025

Thursday Thoughts: on Self Care
"Nurturing yourself is not selfish – it's essential to our survival and your well-being." ~ Renee Peterson Trudeau
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19/08/2025

GratiTuesday – Gratitude for Wellness
Can you believe National Wellness Month is almost over? Well, as the proverbial they say, ‘Time flies when you’re having fun.’ And what could be more fun than focusing on wellness? Brownies. Ah, yes, very true, and I covered brownies in an earlier essay this month. Today’s essay seeks to find a relationship between gratitude and wellness.
What is National Wellness Month? Rumor has it that National Wellness month was founded by a health spa in 2018, to foster community and connection throughout the wellness field. Over time it has evolved to challenge us to up our wellness game in various ways throughout the month of August.
Imagining those who came up with this month-long challenge pictured all of us just hanging about with nothing to do all August long. Hah! That’s a laugh. Although to be honest, I do a fair bit of hanging about on the beach in August. Still, plenty of people schedule their family vacations in August. And, then there is all that prep to enter a new school year for parents, students, and all the folks who work in education. How could anyone possibly find the time in August to focus on wellness?
I hear ya’. AND… Maybe lack of time is the point behind a whole month dedicated to focusing on how we manage wellness. Here are a few essentials to get you started:
Self-care
Physical Exercise
Meditation
Disconnect & set boundaries
Gratitude
And there it is. The relationship between gratitude and wellness. Gratitude can be an essential component of your wellness regimen. The best part about adding gratitude to your daily wellness activities is that it is FREE and doesn’t take up much time. In actuality, everything on the list above is FREE! IMO, authentic self care is always FREE.
For example, try this quick and easy Gratitude Practice… [read full post at https://laurelblossomyoga.com/]

14/08/2025

Thursday Thoughts: on possibilities
"A description of what is, is not a description of what would be." ~ Robert Reich
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12/08/2025

GratiTuesday – Gratitude for Trees
On this GratiTuesday I am thinking about trees… I am on this day immersed in gratitude for trees.
… … …
… thinking about an enormous tree in my own back yard. It is some sort of wild cherry tree, with teeny-tiny cherry berries. It is fruiting again after about four dormant seasons. I had all but given up on this tree after it dropped one of its giant limbs and then put out a bumper crop, carpeting my back yard inches deep. And then… four years of nothing… except exceptional shade. Which is certainly something to appreciate.
One tree leads to another and I am reminded of a passage from the teachings of Ram Dass, comparing appreciation of trees with that of people.
When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You appreciate it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree.
The minute you get near humans, you lose all that… And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.
This link between tree-appreciation and people-appreciate provided the inspiration to meditate on my own feelings of gratitude for all the trees and all the people in my life. I know trees that drop leaves and I know trees that drop berries. I know people with great loving arms. I know people having their best year ever, and people still growing into their best yet to come. I am practicing the tree-ness of all the humans, and I am grateful for every one of them showing up in my life exactly who and how they are.
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laurel blossom yoga is the result of my personal experience of healing and transformation through yoga, meditation and Reiki.

After a lifetime engaged in the corporate world – health and fitness, printing and publishing, music industry, and higher education administration – my career focus and commitment shifted to a mission of service through yoga, meditation and Reiki. laurel blossom yoga delivers onsite, as well as live-streaming online, personally designed

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