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if you are super sensitive for motion, you probably already tried a lot of cures. as i do not like to take medicines and would like to enjoy travelling more, i renewed my search for a cure. last week i made candied ginger, as ginger still seems to be the best way to feel as less sick as possible. my son tried out. it is delicious and really diminished the sickness a lot. the only disadvantage was the ginger being really hot. now, after a week, it has become somewhat softer in taste. so try it out yourself. use a more healthy sugar like raw cane sugar or another sweetener if you prefer. the recipe i used: 1 ginger root, peeled and sliced add water (1 cup per 100 mg of ginger) cover and cook for 35 minutes or until tender drain the ginger, keeping the water weigh the ginger and add as much sweetener reheat the ginger, water and sweetener and keep stirring until the sugar (re)crystallizes (20 minutes) transfer to a cooling rack with backing sheet underneath and let dry the res

did you ever hear of regrowing new vegetables from the scraps? i just came by regrowing carrot tops into new plants and discovered that you can regrow so much. of course we tried out seeds from vegetables and fruits before, even grew our own date palm but from scraps is something new to us. check out the internet if you are interested in doing so too.

at the canals in my home town you can find a lot of lime trees (tilia). beautiful trees with healthy fruits to use for tea and flowers that bees make delicious honey from. but as i was biking under the trees this week, my tires got stuck to the street a bit. i remembered the car being parked under it would turn into an dirty old car, as if parked there for a long time, in a few days. so i decided to exactly find out if the sticky street and dirty cars came from insects in the trees or from the trees itself. it seems that in particular, aphids are attracted by the rich supply of sap of the leaves. in turn, they are "farmed" by ants for the production of the sap which the ants collect for their own use. the result, a dripping of excess sap (honeydew) onto the lower branches and leaves, streets and cars. and as this honeydew is often covered with a black mould, a black sticky layer is the result. happily enough this sticky layer is only annoying to us while the trees do not

even red wine seems to be bad for your health. all the stories on red wine being good for the heart, seem to have been made from misinterpreted research. alcohol is poison. and that just now, when after years of not drinking a drop, i recently started with drinking a small glass once a month or so. i stopped years ago when i became ill for three days after drinking bubbles after a hard days work when i was very tired and short of breath. the first advice for those with any physical defect is to quit with alcohol, coffee and black tea. so i stopped with alcohol, coffee and black tea. the coffee came back when i was just permanently too tired but mixed with caffeine-free coffee. now red wine came back. but with the news article i just read, it seems to be as stupid as smoking. so i will just drink raisin juice instead of wine again. it is delicious though and relaxing, but i can think of other relaxing things.

i hate spoiling food so i always buy carrots without the greens on though then the greens probably have been thrown away anyway. but now, my daughter brought a big bundle of carrots with the green leafs from her own garden. reason to find out what to do with the green tops. and guess what. a world of recipes opened up, like pasta sauce, pesto, salad ... take a look yourself on the internet. and then to know it is very healthy, full of vitamins and minerals and even proteins. by the way, did you know you can also use the green leaves of cauliflower?

around this time, you wonder why the sweet chestnuts are delicious and the horse chestnuts, that almost look alike, should not be eaten. i promised my daughter to find out, so now i understand that sweet chestnuts come from the castanea family of trees while the horse chestnut comes from a totally different aesculus family. the horse chestnut is very bitter to us humans and even poisonous, while squirrels and deers love them. the horse chestnut tree is beautiful though, while flowering and during autumn. and the chestnuts we can use in crafting, like making a spiderweb, while eating the delicious sweet lookalikes. both chestnuts have medicinal properties. maybe in a next post more on that topic or just google yourself if you are curious.

making beautiful things, or seeing beautiful things can lift you up with a boost of energy. as we all can use positive energy from time to time, during days, during periods in live, i searched for more background to this phenomenon. i found definitions of emotional energy, the energy that makes you feel young and connected to the and hope in life., an aliveness of the mind, happiness of the heart, combined with an energetic body (physical energy). and for those with physical limitations, don't despair, the physical side is the less important part. if you have a dip, free up this energy by not only living for others, by not living in the past, by talking to positive people, by looking at beautiful things, by adding adventure to your live, by adding things on your agenda to look forward to. without doubt, a lot more things can boost your emotional energy.

aged 44, i do have difficulties reading labels on jars and packages in the shops, especially if the light is not very strong. so i wondered, should i get used to reading glasses or not, because it would worsen the farsightedness and make my eyes lazy. the answer is: doing exercises for your eye muscles cannot hurt, but wearing reading glasses will not worsen the aging of your eyes. you will become more dependent though on your glasses, just because you will get used to the clear sight. Link to some exercises on eHow

who does not know stonehenge, the legendary neolithic stones in the south of england. in the third book of michael scott on the immortal nicholas flamel it is the location of important power and in many other books and films it is an mysterious historical powerful monument. and now, researches discovered remains of chapels that indicate that the stones were not in splendid isolation but part of a bigger structure. these mysteries of real life indicate for me, the importance to keep on dreaming, because real life has too many layers to be exactly clear. dreams can give you a peaceful feeling within this noisy and restless world. so go on and dream or read (often the same as experiencing someone others dream). more on the books of michael scott .

living is about balance. balance for our body to stay fit. balance in our relations to stay happy, free and loving. balance in our lives to have enough love, beauty and goodness to counterbalance the pain and uglyness of our world. just because nature gives us no longlasting happy end but keeps on going. our challenge, to keep our balance.

fairy tales are real life. maybe your happy end is just still to come. fairy tale people have rough times before the happy ending and maybe after the happy end they have new rough times. maybe seeing your live as a fairy tail will get you better through rough times.

doubting about having children or not? don't if: you are very sensitive you can't handle unfair critics you don't like injustice you don't like grumbling you love peace you prefer to be friendly you love to dream away you hate the wrongs in the world