Earth has everything we need. Let it be enough for us all.
May you find the magic in the earth today and every day!
Warmly, Brenda
Note: Sorry this is late, but I spent today in the garden with my kids. My son whose foot is broken managed to rake up the soil where our water access was replumbed. And then he scattered grass seed like a champ. I hope you found a good way to celebrate!
I am behind but so glad son is able to sow grass seeds while recuperating. This sounds like a fun family gardening experience!
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We had a good week despite our setbacks. 🙂
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You always have such fabulous bright flowers Brenda – wonderful colour, and there is magic in the earth – if only we found it everyday!!♥
Your son sounds like he’s on good recovery – my goodness a broken foot is a big thing to have to recover from!!! I guess a young age helps to recover quicker. I remember breaking my arm when I was 5 years old – it was very painful, I really wouldn’t have wanted to have walked on it while it was recovering!! 😯 I hope he gets back to his normal fit self very soon! 🙂
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Thanks, Suzy, yes my son is suffering a bit. We had to get him a wheelchair for longer jaunts, he just can’t walk too far. He has managed to keep going to school and orchestra. He’s a trouper. 🙂
I find the earth’s magic, as long as I’m not stressing. That just completely kills my ability to see and imagine. Ice creams helps. LOL
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Hello Brenda! I am always so delighted reading your words…. but so sorry to hear your son has one foot broken! what happened?? (OR better, how could it happen??)
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Hi Luanne, Thanks for stopping by. He jumped from too high, landed on only one foot, and seems to have both a bad sprain and a bone fragment. He’s not bouncing back quickly, and has to stay off his foot as much as he can at least until mid-May, maybe longer. It’s torture for him, poor kid. He’s normally very active. I blame the cartoons and movies, where people are always jumping from really high with no injury. That’s visual fiction, and it makes kids do absurd things. Parkour is also a terrible sport for encouraging kids to be reckless with their bodies. Or maybe it’s my fault for letting him play like a kid. Anyway, he will be better before summer, I hope. Thanks for asking! Hope your wild child is well. Best, Brenda
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Oh dear!! you know how many times I tell my son: you are NOT Superman… Or “if we crash the car, we will probably not be continuining living as your heroes”. .. Cartoons, movies and videogames… what a tragic lessons sometimes. Wish he could be happy seeing Tom & Jerry, like we have been (once upon a time:) and know nothig about all these nonsenses.
Hugs for you both! and a big kiss for the little one.
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Many kids need to learn for themselves what the limits are. They’re different for different people. His friend has jumped from that height and been fine, but not my son. He had been having such fun when it happened. He’ll be fine soon, I hope. XOXO, Brenda
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yes, earth does have everything we need!
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Yes, isn’t that a comforting thought?
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absolutely. we worry so much about nothing really, when all our needs are met by earth and her elements.
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Yes, even our emotional needs can be soothed by a moment in a sunlit glade and the dewy glance of a deer.
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Great to read that you spent the day outside with your kids Brenda celebrating the Earth.
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It was a lovely day. I hope my plants survive. Frost due tonight. Figures. LOL
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Go figure Brenda – that’s what killed several of my plants in March. Hope yours survive.
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Thanks! Fingers crossed.
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A great way to have spent Earth Day! While we spent a large part of last week outdoors and in garden, this week has been rainy and cold, so I guess we “celebrated” Earth Day by renting Malificient and having a move night? I guess we did that wrong…
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Louise, you have plenty of banked celebration. 🙂 And what a great movie. I love that opening scene, that’s a celebration of earth and imagination.
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I stopped on the way to work to watch the CT River for a bit. Other than that, no official observance (well, I read a lot of blog posts about Earth Day 🙂
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Watching a river counts! 🙂
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and what a great place for you to spend earth day!
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I get that restless gardening urge every spring. I love to be out in the garden.
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Happy Earth Day to you too 🙂
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Thank you!
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Lovely words; it can be enough for us all if we care enough to make it so.
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Too true! And so few do. But those of us who do, create a beautiful little world of our own.
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Happy Earth Day to you too, Brenda! Gorgeous picture to celebrate such a special day! 🙂
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Thank you. I found those flowers at the library, of all places. 🙂
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IJoin you in gratitude for our wonderful planet! Hugs, Barbara
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Barbara, You are a good friend to the earth! Hugs, Brenda
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And I forgot to add a compliment regarding the photo. Those are colours I can see.
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Aren’t those stunning flowers? I found them at the library.
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Like you, Brenda, I spent yesterday morning, this morning and will spend tomorrow morning (Friday) in the garden…and have found a whole range of unused muscles… 🙂
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Yes, my muscles are reminding me this morning that I’m not 20 anymore. I had a stern talk with my left leg which doesn’t work well under the best of circumstances. LOL I have to check on my lettuces and make sure the bunnies didn’t devour them.
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Yes, I got a chance to appreciate my beautiful earth today and every day. Isn’t it grand!
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Yes, indeed!
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
HELPING OUR KIDS APPRECIATE IT ALL IS IMPORTANT!!!! 🙂
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So lovely!! 🙂 ❤ I saw two snakes today, one on each side of the river. They were chased away by a shiny blue kingfisher. Yesterday there were thunderstorms and the foxes and grasshoppers were howling like mad. Then I saw a tiny invisible bug diving into the river making very intricate sun-silvered ripples as it danced around in the water. Then I saw to eagles and a stork high up in the sunrise. Then I saw the water lilies opening up to the sun at 5 am. Happy Earth day!!! 🙂 ❤ She is our beloved mother! ❤
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My goodness, what a busy lady Mother Earth is. So many quarrels happen around her hem.
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Yes!! 😀
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Hugs, Angel-friend. 🙂
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Hugs, Fairy-Brenda! 🙂
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🙂 On your way to Norway?
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No, only end of next month 🙂 for summer holidays! 🙂
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Oh, that must be a lovely time of year to visit.
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Yes it Is!! Summers in Norway are lovely!! Between 15 and 25 degrees Celsius and midnight sun! 🙂
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Wow, such long days. I spent part of August in Scotland one year, and the midnight sun made the days long and gorgeous.
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Yes, it is like that 🙂 The night light is amazing!! 🙂
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Soft and gentle is how I remember it.
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Yes ❤ and mysterious 🙂
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Happy Earth Day to you too, Brenda! Thank you for the lovely photo and sentiment. Hope your son is back to 100 percent soon 🙂
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I hope so, too. Poor guy has become quite a couch potato with a broken ankle.
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