Real Symbolic Actions: Flowers Feed Compassion

Byriehlifegrace April 12, 2008

Hostesses and the floral industry have known this for a long time. But the symbolic action of giving and receiving flowers makes people happy. The tangible symbol of being surrounded by flowers, makes people happier.

Now the Home Ecology of Flowers Sudy at Harvard reveals that:

1) Flowers Feed Compassion.

2) Flowers chase away anxieties, worries and the blues at home.

3) Living with flowers can provide a boost of energy, happiness and enthusiasm at work.

Read the entire article on About Flowers by clicking here.

Pelicans “Just Visiting” Along the Mississippi River

Byriehlifegrace April 8, 2007April 8, 2007

Pelicans link my lives in two locations this morning. Daniel and I see pelicans when we kayak on Clear Lake in Northern California. We paddle round the small peninsula, and there, they are! A cloud of squawking white swirling and settling on the water. I see a blur of pelicans this morning, looking over my…

Boxes as Evidence of Transition

Byriehlifegrace June 22, 2007June 22, 2007

Transition is a place all of its own. In between-ness. Being on the move, in motion. Sorting and packing. Yes this/not that. Clearing space, literally, for a new life cycle to follow, the unknown, fallow, yet fertile field yet to be plowed and sown. My studio has become a staging area for my move. The…

Sushi Socks & Seeing Clearly

Byriehlifegrace November 30, 2007June 4, 2008

I propped up my feet wearing socks grabbed from a jumble bin in a thrift store. My socks and I relaxed and listened to the teachings coming in through the closed circuit TV from the ballroom. Afterwards, Bev came over and said, “Let me look at your sushi socks.” Sure enough, there they were…little prints…

George Lucas’ fatherly advice for success in the arts

Byriehlifegrace May 21, 2008May 21, 2008

Remember that ultimately going for the money is 100% wrong. Going for love of what you’re doing is sort of 60% right. You can fill that other 40% with a little practical thinking: I also want to make a living at this. I don’t want to starve. —George Lucas, Quoted in USA Today

Triptych: Jeweled Bones, Right Panel: Jewels Under Glass–Flash Fiction in Three parts by Janet Grace Riehl

Byriehlifegrace May 9, 2007May 16, 2008

This flash fiction of 3 parts, or panels, was originally published in The Portland Review. I’m posting it on Riehlife in three parts. “Triptych: Jeweled Bones” links to an on-going theme of how the land nurtures us as writers and creative people. Arletta Dawdy found inspiration in this piece and I’ll be posting her story-poem…

Triptych: Jeweled Bones, Central Panel: Bones in the Cellar

Byriehlifegrace May 11, 2007May 16, 2008

Mother shooed us into the cellar. I turned my pockets inside out and showed her my discoveries. While we waited for the storm to pass, my mother told us stories: saints’ bones preserved in crypts of faraway cathedrals; healers who told the future by throwing bones as if they were dice; and air-raid cellars in…

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Susan Gallacher-Turner says:

April 12, 2008 at 9:20 am

Janet,
Well I couldn’t agree more. I always love to buy and have flowers throughout my home and studio but never had a scientific study to back me up….wheee…now I can go buy those tulips I was planning on and know that ‘scientifically’ I’m helping myself and my environment.

Susan
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Hal Manogue says:

April 12, 2008 at 9:28 am

Flowers are a expression of love in the now. What a wonderful way to communicate! No words, no jestures, only pure vibrating energy. The Birds and the Bees appreciate that vibration too.

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