Home grown produce from the backyard. Rocket, 🌿 avocados, 🥑bananas, 🍌 and cucumbers. 🥒 The avos come from my neighbors tree and we swap produce, or I just share what I have with them. I literally have an orchard in my backyard - a grape vine, and banana, lime, lemon, mandarin, plum and feijoa trees as well as a small vegetable patch, even though I only live in a tiny 60m² unit in a block of three, and the land is clay. Besides being a mum, growing my own food is one of the most rewarding experiences for me.
Growing my own food means so much more than just having food on the table to eat. It also aligns with the mental health wellness model we use for Maori here in New Zealand, called Te Whare Tapa Whā (the four sided house) meaning the four cornerstones of the model that are brought into balance to achieve overall wellbeing:
• Taha tinana (physical wellbeing) – gardening as physical work / exercise and producing healthy, organic food
• Taha wairua (spiritual wellbeing) – connection with nature and a sense of purpose
• Taha whanau (social wellbeing) – bringing people together around a shared objective, food swapping and sharing
• Taha hinengaro (mental & emotional wellbeing) – building confidence and
empowerment through a sense of self-responsibility for one’s own wellbeing
And as my garden grows I feel like I grow too, such is the intrinsic connection we have to nature.
"A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust." - Gertrude Jekyll
HEADS UP - I got good news. Youns want some good news? . . . . . . . Jus kiddin I KNOW youns do 🤣 Here it is - I talk to a lot of folks I don't know like they are family. The folks I talk to also know how badly they have been betrayed by a corporation pretending to be a constitutional republic. The place where I see folks that actually support said criminal syndicate is near always on TV. As in theater created to get folks to "go along". Folks are coming to comprehend that WE THE PEOPLE need to hold those A-holes responsible ourselves. As we were obligated to do when this nation was founded and failed to do. THAT IS GOOD NEWS. Folks know we need to uphold our obligation to our own freedom
HARD TRUTH
The US. patent office has been used to control invention and innovation to maximize profitability for somewhere in the ballpark of 100yrs. Technological advancements and are tightly controlled thru the patent office and MANY compartmentalized black budget programs. The very corporations pushing technology are not only government funded, but they were also government created too. As in controlled. Controlled as a means maximize control and profit . . . . . . . NOW, knowing that, you should also know the "cabal" folks talk about, IS the federal government. 😶 Corporate lackies hell bent on control for profit is exactly what the senate n congress are composed of . . . . . . . PRIME EXAMPLE - No one involved with the FDA, the CDC or USDA is ever held responsible, nor is anyone involved with big pharma. THAT is because the criminal syndicate with corporate structure has BOTH on payroll 😶
Friends,
in the face of all that we are witnessing in the world today, who hasn't asked themself at times, "What can little old me change"? It's a common question and we've all asked it before.
It's actually a very important one to ask, but most don't realize how powerful the real answer is.
Let us explain in today's Sunday Sermon 👇🏽
Hello friends,
it's time for a Sunday Sermon again:-)
It's very interesting how something that can help us so greatly and expand us forward into greater wellbeing can also be the thing that holds us back or locks us in at times.
Does that sound like a paradox? Well, let us explain...👇🏽
