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My World: I worked on the yard some more still really wet here. I have been enjoying the last two days working in the yard. I just work out there for a couple of hours. I have a whole bunch of stuff that I gathered for yard art. I have a bunch of old wooden ladders that I am going to use for trellis for my and my clemantis and jasmine. So transplanted those out of pots and put the ladders up. May paint them bright colors in the Spring. I have an old wringer washing machine I am going to plant with flowers. Oh Oh! Forgot the manifesting lesson.
I am going to use this idea to put my grapes on. I think I have five wooden ladders and a couple of chain link gates to use to have things that need support grow on.
This is just some ideas I have. I also have an old wheelbarrow and a kids wagon to plant. Found garden art is fun and creative and a lot of it can be put in place this winter. Before I went out this morning put this ten bean soup on to cook in crock pot. I am eating vegan as my daughter is and it just makes it easier. I never do eat a lot of meat anyway.
Tomato and Bean Soup
Ingredients (use vegan versions):
2 cups vegetable stock
1 can (16 oz.) garbanzo beans (chickpeas)
1 can (8 oz.) cut string beans or wax beans
1 can (8 oz.) kidney beans (red or pink)
1 package of ten bean soup beans.
1 chopped onion
2 stalks of celery cut into 1/8-1/4 inch slices (horizontally)
1 can tomato sauce
1 can tomato paste
oregano, parsley, basil, etc.
salt & pepper
Directions:
Put the veggie stock in a decent sized pot to heat up. While it is cooking, cut the onion and celery. Add ten bean soup mix and cook until tender. Add the veggies to the stock along with all the cans of beans (including water or whatever else they are packed in). Add the tomato sauce, tomato paste, and spices to taste. Let boil, stirring periodically, and serve hot.
If you aren't vegan, try adding a splash of milk right before the soup boils.
Serves: 2-4
Preparation time: about 1 hour.
Ladies in Lavender  Cast: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Natascha McElhone, Daniel Brühl, Miriam Margolyes, David Warner, Toby Jones
Director: Charles Dance
Genre: Drama
Rated: M low level coarse language
Running Time: 99 Minutes
The Story Of Two Sisters Who Saved A Stranger, And The Stranger Who Stole Their Hearts
Synopsis:
Set in picturesque coastal Cornwall, in a tight-knit fishing village in the 1930's, 'Ladies in Lavender' boasts the cream of British acting talent as Oscar and BAFTA award-winners Dame Judi Dench (Iris, Chocolat, recent James Bond films) and Dame Maggie Smith (Gosford Park, Tea with Mussolini, the Harry Potter films) play the leading roles of sisters Ursula (Dench) and Janet Widdington (Smith).
Rising German talent and award-winning Daniel Brühl (Goodbye Lenin!) plays Andrea. A gifted young Jewish violinist from Krakow, Andrea is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a fierce storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome and mysterious stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the musically talented young man disrupts the peaceful lives of Ursula and Janet and the community in which they live.
My Verdict:
'Ladies in Lavender' is a bittersweet story of two sisters (Judi Dench and Maggie Smith) who live together in a quaint English fishing village, find a young man washed up on the beach beneath their house, take him home and help to rehabilitate him from his near death. As they soon discover, the man is not English which means overcoming a language barrier as they try to discover just who this mystery man is, where he came from, where was he going and more importantly, what are they going to do with him.
Charles Dance makes his directorial debut, also writing the screenplay from a story by William J. Locke, and slowly but surely reveals a beautifully told story of love and communication. Dance elicits such superb performances from Dench, Smith and also Miriam Margolyes who plays Dorcas, the housekeeper to the Widdington sisters. The interaction between Dench and Smith, as two sisters who live together, even sharing the same bedroom, is a pleasure to watch as they try their damnedest to win the heart of their new houseguest, Andrea Marowski (a comfortable Daniel Brühl). Slowly, Ursula (Dench) begins to fall in love with Andrea, which brings emotions to the surface that she finds hard to deal with, ultimately leading to her finding some solace through violinist Andrea's music. Watching Dench deal with these feelings is heartbreaking and a testament to her talent. By the way, Brühl does an excellent job of "playing" the violin - something that is often neglected in movies where a character performs with a musical instrument. Natascha McElhone plays Olga Daniloff, a visiting artist who provides the subject matter for a subplot involving Andrea and the local doctor, Dr. Francis Mead (David Warner)
Never overstated, this is a refined and polished movie, where the contrast of the personalities of the Widdington sisters, is offset by their matter-of-fact housekeeper Dorcas, who manages to impart some humour, albeit unintentionally. The final scene felt a little rushed after all the effort leading towards it and was a tad disappointing - more of the aftermath of Andrea's tenure was needed - but this is getting very picky in an otherwise contemplative and delightful movie.
Just to see the two Dames of British stage and screen together (again) is a privilege.
Rating : B
Christina Bruce
http://www.femail.com.au/ladies-in-lavender-review.htm
Personally I loved it I did not think it should have a B rating. The music was wonderful. It did feel like the story could have been filled out a bit in places.
Just finished reading:
Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Review When Sue Bender proudly announced to a friend that her first book, Plain and Simple had made it to the New York Times bestseller list, her friend immediately shot back, "But what number on the list are you?" Bender was shocked, realizing that nothing we accomplish seems like enough in our overly pressured world. In Everyday Sacred we follow Bender on her quest to make every moment enough. Cleaning a desk, sipping cappuccino, making computer connections, and appreciating freshly painted walls all become opportunities to satiate one's life with sacred encounters. The end product reads like an Amish quilt--simple vignettes sewn together to create a comfortable lifetime companion.
From Publishers Weekly The Zen monk's begging bowl is the pervasive image in this author's continuing spiritual journey she began recording in her bestselling Plain and Simple, in which she described her time living among the Amish. Here, she tells how, back home amid the more mundane experience of her daily life, she accepted the challenge of finding meaning by daily proferring the beggar's bowl to be filled with the sacredness of everyday life. The lessons and stories that fill her bowl are related to Bender's life-ordinary events seen with fresh eyes and offered as simple ways for busy people to incorporate reflective periods into their lives. The simplicity that made her earlier book appealing is also evident here. Illustrations. $100,000 ad/promo; author tour.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
http://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Sacred-Womans-Journey-Home/dp/0062512900
What I am grateful for today: Having a yard to work in. Cleaning my home. Having my own home. Being creative. Resting and having a nap. Living in the now. Seeing miracles in ordinary everyday things. I am grateful for books, and movies. I am grateful for our local library. So it is, all is well, I love you all, Judi
1. Whilst you are learning or ‘getting better at’ manifesting (isn’t everyone), remember to play, it doesn’t matter how 'good' or how ‘bad’ you are at it, your attention is on the 'playing', THAT'S where the energy flows from
2. Be passionate about being passionate, that’s the intention of your goals remember, what energy they flow for you
3. The Universe loves you unconditionally. It loves you so unconditionally that you don’t have to believe it loves you and it will still love you.
4. You are inherently free in this Universe. You are free to think what you like and thus are free to set your vibrational tone to what you like
It is always about the Now.
5. Anything you think about the present and future are all perceptions FROM THE NOW.
6. Any emotion or anything you work with, get it to how you feel about it in the Now, that’s where the leverage is, rather than ‘I felt x’ about it, why are you mentioning it Now? Why does it come up Now? What is the emotion at Now?
When you think of your goals and if you feel uncomfortable (you can replace that word with any negative emotion) it is because there is discord between your desire and your belief, they are vibrationally apart at that moment. There is a difference between what you want and your current thoughts about it. Your job, using the techniques here, is to bridge that gap and have the manifestation
7. One way to deal with discord when thinking of your goals is to ‘soften’ the resistance/discord. So rather than thinking of the million you will have, start with a concept such as "money goes where attention goes" – i.e. something general which you know you are ok with believing now, and when that feels comfortable/familiar, build it up to something else, and so on to the goal....
8. Take steps, getting [vibrationally] familiar each step of the way, make the emotional journey to the goal
9. The Emotional (spiritual) journey has far far far more leverage and power than the Action (physical) journey.
10. The physical is a manifestation of the spiritual
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Ladies in lavender is an inspirring title. Working in the yard, reading, watching a movie make a pleasant shedule .
