Books | plants | mindfulness | eco | minimalism
Yōkai and Reapers and Darkness…oh my. The Keeper of Night was deliciously written. Teeming with Japanese folklore, this was much more eerie than I had expected (but in the most wonderful of ways). Unlike most young adult books, Kylie Lee Baker brought forward main characters who are morally ambivalent. The shadows that she cast in our main... Continue Reading →
4 ✨ A little gem of a book for foot care. Stephanie Tourles has done her research, and The Foot Care Handbook: Natural Therapies for Easing Pain, Healing Common Ailments, and Maintaining Healthy Feet really delves into a vast array of areas regarding foot care. I enjoyed the pictures that were included and the nice layout for each... Continue Reading →
3.5 ✨ As you probably guessed by the title, Make Your Own Beauty Products is a book that describes how to make your own beauty products. But Charmaine Yabsley doesn't just delve into recipes, she divulges a slue of information.Over thirteen chapters, Yabsley discusses:* the benefits of natural products,* how our skin works and what... Continue Reading →
The Rain Belongs Here begins inside of the walls the city. Video surveillance is constantly running, violence is virtually non-existent, and citizens are essentially connected to the city through advanced technology. Each citizen serves a purpose, and the more unsavory tasks that keep the city running, and clean, are shared by way of mandatory volunteer... Continue Reading →
Sara is a Hindu goddess of order. Daughter to a goddess of chaos, their differences could not be more drastic. Unable to forgive her mother for events that transpired more than three thousand years ago, Sara left her true goddess form to live, more or less, as a human. Without believers to provide Sara with... Continue Reading →
Throughout the year, we propagated and gifted numerous pilea peperomia to friends and family. Our little plants have now become humongous giants hanging from our south facing windows, where the sunlight is bright and direct. A few questions have come in asking "how can I keep my pilea alive?" If you're not having much luck,... Continue Reading →
Let me take a second to acknowledge the cover art. *Sigh*. Lovely.Okay, now lets jump into it.Earthly Bodies is an eco-horror that tenderly explores human interaction with nature. (Can I pause here and reiterate that it's an eco-horror?! I really enjoyed this aspect of Earthly Bodies).“Plants can adapt to anything, humans cannot."Earthly Bodies introduces a variety of... Continue Reading →
Some people have a list of resolutions at the beginning of each year, some people have a resolution for every month, or every season. But, no matter how you look at it, resolutions are lifelong and here at The Life Resolution we're taking this idea and applying it to our lives starting with mindfulness. But... Continue Reading →
We've all been there: working hard, getting things checked off the "to-do list", pushing through our breaks. Some of us even work through our lunch breaks. But this is not healthy behavior. Working hard is one thing, but pushing through your breaks and putting yourself in second place, that's another thing. Over the years, various... Continue Reading →
"Déjà vu, Déjà su, Déjà vecu."Already seen, already known, already lived. • • • • •Adeline, Addie, LaRue has lived for three centuries, a blink in her eternal life. Already seen, already known, already lived is merely a mantra to Addie. But Addie was not born immortal, and immortality has a price. As a young... Continue Reading →
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