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3 episodes with osmanthus
2 episodes with osmanthus
2 episodes with osmanthus
2 episodes with osmanthus
2 episodes with osmanthus
2 episodes with osmanthus
Osmanthus is an evergreen shrub or small tree native to parts of Asia. Amid her evergreen leaves, you will find purple-black fruit and soft yellow flowers that look like tiny rays of sunshine. From these flowers, she gifts you a sweetly divine essential oil with a fragrance like that of apricots and peaches. Just like Mandarin could be considered the child of the citrus oils, Osmanthus is a child of the florals. She possesses a sweet, smiling energy that shines joy and lightness into your life.ABOUT ADAM BARRALET Adam Barralet has been observing and living in tune with nature since childhood. Growing up amongst the bushland and wildlife of the hills in Western Australia and residing in various locations around the world has presented Adam with diverse opportunities to access extensive and eclectic teachings about the secrets of Mother Earth. He has used essential oils for over 30 years and teams his experiences with his background in human biology, chemistry, psychology, health sciences and massage.He has now established himself as an international author, presenter, educator and Wellness Advocate, adept at working with essential oils, along with crystals, animal guides, tarot, astrology and mythology. CONNECT WITH ADAM HERE: https://linktr.ee/adambarralet ABOUT ELIZABETH ASHLEYElizabeth Ashley has over 20 books on sale on Amazon under her pen name The Secret Healer. The UK Director of the National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy and an overseas speaker for The International Federation of Aromatherapists, Elizabeth's work focuses on understanding the very earliest energetic relationships between certain plants and the human world, right up the modern-day scientific evidence of healing botanicals.A practicing Melissa priestess, a plant and bee shamaness as well as a bee guardian, she has the unique perspective of having one foot in our three-dimensional scientific reality with the other dancing in the spiritual realms.CONNECT WITH LIZ HERE: https://linktr.ee/thesecrethealer
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This week, you join us for a fragrant journey through a scented sleepover and a quest to find perfect perfumes for an actress playing Lady Macbeth, & a concert pianist (no less!) We're talking about the delicate allure of Roger & Gallet Osmanthus, the olfactive grandeur of Amouage Epic Woman, and the operatic drama of Merchant of Venice Maria Callas. We'll also explore the tempestuous beauty of 4160 Tuesdays Tempest Rose and tease an exciting upcoming collaboration with author Joanne Harris. But that's not all! We tackle two intriguing listener prescriptions that will captivate your imagination. An actress seeks a powerful scent to embody Lady Macbeth on stage, while a pianist desires a fragrance to echo her passionate performance and boost her confidence. From smoky gunpowder to mossy forests, we explore scents that evoke strength, witchery, and wild nature. Prepare to be spellbound by fragrances that transport you to moonlit covens, ancient ceremonies, and the very essence of power. Whether you're stepping onto the stage or into your own spotlight, this episode promises to awaken your senses and inspire your inner performer. Don't miss this aromatic adventure that blends intrigue, Shakespeare, music, and the transformative power of perfume. Tune in and let your imagination run wild... We discuss: @kga_beauty_pr #kgascentedsleepover @rogergallet Osmanthus @amouageofficial Epic Woman @themerchantofvenice Maria Callas @4160tuesdays Tempest Rose (and founder and perfumer Sarah McCartney's forthcoming collaboration with @joannechocolat new novel – a prequel to Chocolat!) Then there's two of the most artistically intriguing #listenerprescription questions we've ever had: one from Gemma Varnom – an actress soon to play Lady Macbeth, who's looking for a suitably powerful perfume to wear on stage; and another from a pianist about to give the performance of her life – seeking a scent that might echo the passion of the music while boosting her self-confidence. For Gemma (the actress portraying Lady Macbeth): @beaufortlondon Tonnere@zoologistperfumes Moth@andreamaack Coven @papillonartisanperfumes Spell 125@vallense Source For Astri (the concert pianist): @fredericmalle Portait of a Lady@frassai Blondine @ramonmonegal Flamenco Extrait de Parfum @lorchestreparfum Piano Santal
Exploring Osmanthus With Healthcare Practitioners • Hosted by Aisha Harley with guest experts Ariana Harley, Louise Rose ND, Mica Carew ND, LAc, and Will Wan LAc. • Focused on Osmanthus, known as the oil of gentleness • Louise Rose detailed Osmanthus' historical culinary and medicinal significance. • Ariana Harley highlighted its limited availability and favorite fragrance notes. Benefits and Uses of Osmanthus Oil • Calms the nervous system and soothes the skin. • Supports stress regulation, digestion, and hormonal balance. • Emotional benefits include fostering kindness, gentleness, and compassion. • Suggested applications: forehead, throat, heart, and as a perfume. Essential Oils for Self-Love and Comfort • Blend for self-love introduced by Ariana Harley, featuring Osmanthus. • Emphasized spiritual practices during stressful times. • Noted for comfort, anxiety relief, and emotional resilience. Osmanthus Therapy for Emotional Release • Supports relaxation and emotional upliftment. • Applied on acupuncture points to release emotional patterns related to family and relationships. • Addresses feelings of constriction and facilitates spiritual connection. Osmanthus in Traditional Chinese Medicine • Symbolic of spiritual and emotional healing; historically exclusive to Chinese royalty. • Aids in moving Qi, dissipating phlegm, and connecting to the spirit world. • Enhances compassion and addresses various organ systems. Essential Oils for Well-Being and Immunity • Promotes holistic health: mental, physical, and spiritual. • Discussion on blending oils for respiratory support and heart-related symptoms. • Encouragement to trust personal intuition when selecting oils. • Upcoming calls announced on immunity and essential oil education. ✨ Join us for future calls to deepen your understanding of essential oils and holistic wellness! Connect with us: Aisha Harley- www.aishaharley.com / Instagram @aisha.essentialwellness Ariana Harley - https://www.arianaharley.com/ Josie Schmidt- FB Personal Page: https://www.facebook.com/josie.h.schmidt Arin - https://msha.ke/jasmineandjuniper/ Contact Email: aishaharley@comcast.net Welcome to the Visionary Leaders Podcast Here you will gain the knowledge you need to bring essential oils, plant medicine, wisdom, supplementation, and functional medicine into your life. We have a weekly show: “Learn to Be the Healer in Your Home,” where we hear stories from our community on how they integrated essential oils, supplementation, and functional medicine into their lives as a pathway to healing.
We're right in the heart of the "Osmanthus Economy" season! We explore how this beloved flower is blossoming into a thriving industry! What makes this petite flower so prized culturally and economically? / What are pre-cooked social media updates (19:32)? On the show: Heyang, Steve Hatherly & Yushan
In this episode, Meg and Heather discuss Brave Essential Oil Blend, which is also known as the Courage Blend. It combines Wild Orange, Amyris, Osmanthus, and Cinnamon Bark essential oils with fractionated coconut oil. The description in the Emotional Connections book describes what we all need to have in this world - courage to show respect to all people including ourselves, to stand up for what is right for all humanity, and many other things. Check out this wonderful blend! To purchase or find the price of Brave Essential Oil Blend, click here https://doterra.me/ViSMP7. For more information, check out the www.bottlepopppinpodcast.com To learn more about Heather Skold, check out http://www.jugglingsimplicity.com To learn more about Meg Fittsgill, check out http://www.balanceredeemed.com
After a few weeks of really misty, cold, and awful weather, I needed to get out of bed and find some inspiration for the garden. A “pick-me-up” if you like. But where to go? Yep – Hagley Park is always a good place, but so are the garden Centres! The difference is quite obvious: The Botanical Gardens will show you stuff that was planted many decades ago. It's the picture of the future – a glimpse into your garden the children will enjoy after you've moved on. How about the “now” – or maybe the next 10 years or so? Impatient? Perhaps… So I went to Oderings to have a look for some quick colour, tincture, complexion, some colōris, or, as the Spanish Language so elegantly describes: el color. Start with the Letter A: Acer Known here as Maple. Acer senkaki is obviously a Japanese maple. It glows red in Winter (and it's quite pretty as a summer tree too). You don't have to wait for it – you can buy it right now to cheer you up. The next Acer is A. griseum (the paper bark maple) a Chinese species that is actually quite rare in nature, but reasonably common in gardens owned by observant gardeners. Don't be fooled by the species name “griseum” (meaning grey) – it refers to the underside of the leaves. The peeling cinnamon-coloured bark is what gives me hope: hope for a speedy springtime and hope that some young gardeners will see the beauty of back-lit leaves from a low-angled sun. You want some weird Pink to cheer you up? Here's an Erica, simply because I kind-of grew up with plants like that in the Netherlands. Heather, Heaths (“de Hei”), and such plants belong to the Ericacea with almost 1000 described species. They're tough and flower colours are often spectacular; great tucker for insects like pollinators. But the coolest thing is that a good number of these Ericaceae have a habit of flowering in the middle of winter, and that can be brilliant! And then there are Daphne and Hellebores and the fabulous scent of Osmanthus. But perhaps it's a good opportunity to highlight some Native winter jewels, like Libertia peregrinans. Or the range of Corokias (Geenty's Ghost and Frosted Chocolat). These last two make fab hedges!! We also have weirdly bright Cabbage Trees (Cordyline) and strangely dark Flaxes, small and tall. No doubt all found as unexpected genetic morphs or cross-bred entities; mind you, I must say that the dark “background” flaxes really fit well in many gardens and the nectar feeding birds are still keen to visit the flowers in late spring. One native shrub that always bowls me over (when visiting the Catlins) is the relatively slow growing Pseudowintera colorata, also known as Horopito. This shrub is totally unexpectedly beautiful as just about every specimen has a different colour-ratio, live and in nature. Now that's a shrub worth investing in, especially as you can eat the leaves, not just in Māori dishes, but also in Indonesian delicacies. It tastes just the way it looks: On fire! LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
NOISE has you covered this week with new Beth Gibbons, new Kamasi Washington, Canadian electronic and experimental selections, some beautiful Neo-Classical (Norma Beecroft, Osmanthus, Li Yilei), and more avant-garde goodness.Playlist: Beth Gibbons - Reaching OutSandra Sutter - Aurora BorealisLi Yilei - Tooth, Wallflower and SaltLi Yilei - ++++Duelling Ants - MaggotsNorma Beecroft, featuring Robert Aitken, Rivka Golani - Jeu IIOsmanthus - BloomKamasi Washington, featuring Andre 3000 - Dream StateTomas Jonsson - BreioholtDakhaBrakha - TorokhSam Wilson - the moon songRob Mitchelson - Mood UltravioletDominic Pierce - Razberry HeyDominic Pierce - Cloud MachineNAH - Global Logic AssaultWeb Peril - Conference CentreOHSO BLONDO - bad daysWitch Prophet - Save Me - Club MixFYEAR - Pt I Trajectory
Greetings! Some new stuff (Audio Obscura, Letters from Mouse, Allison Burik, Osmanthus, Avi C. Engel), some old stuff (Finneus Gauge, Tangerine Dream), some new stuff made from old stuff (Joseph Benzola/John Balaban) together with just other stuff, serve to fill up the 1 hour & 59 minutes of this week's PTE. Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com twitter-like x-thing: https://twitter.com/envpusher1 2-24-24 PTE Playlist Cosm - Letters from Mouse (Steven Anderson) - Clota - Subexotic Records (2024) https://lettersfrommouse.bandcamp.com/album/clota The Last Day of August Felt Like The First Day of August - Audio Obscura - Acid Field Recordings in Dub - Subexotic Records (April 2024 pre-release) https://audioobscura.bandcamp.com/music Solstice I (Dreams & Memories) / Solstice II (Cycles) / Solstice III (The Promise) - Allison Burik - Realm - self-release (2024) https://allisonburik.bandcamp.com/album/realm Lava underground - Insub Meta Orchestra - archive #1 - INSUB Records (2012) https://insub.bandcamp.com/album/archive-1 Breadcrumb Dance - Avi C. Engel - Too Many Souls - digital self-release / Somnimage (2024) https://aviengel.bandcamp.com/album/too-many-souls Diabaram - Ryuichi Sakamoto w/ Youssou N'dour - Beauty - Virgin (1989) https://www.sitesakamoto.com/ Trivium - Darkslider - Abstract - The Next Complete Collection (So Far) - digital release (2024) https://darkslider.bandcamp.com/album/abstract-the-next-complete-collection-so-far Ca Dao ("cah zao" / folk songs) - Joseph Benzola and John Balaban - Ca Dao - Amanita Music (2024) https://josephbenzola.bandcamp.com/track/ca-dao Case By Case / Data Pollution / Subscription Fatigue - Devin Gray - Most Definitely - Rataplan Records (2023) https://devingraymusic.bandcamp.com/album/most-definitely Variegated Forms, I, II & III - Osmanthus - Between Seasons - digital release (2024) https://valiska.bandcamp.com/album/between-seasons Indignant Swines - Guild Theory - digital single (2023) https://guildtheory.bandcamp.com/track/indignant-swines More Wants More - Finneus Gauge - More Wants More - Train Records (1997) https://finneusgauge.bandcamp.com/album/more-once-more Emergence - Anyone (Riz Story) - In Humanity - TogethermenT Records (2021) https://www.anyoneden.net/in-humanity DD Danz - Acqua Fragile - Moving Fragments - MaRaCash Records (2023) https://maracashrecords.bandcamp.com/album/moving-fragments Poisonous Worm / A Fly In The Queen's Soup - Auzel - Old - digital release/Vuzhmusic (2012) http://www.vuzhmusic.com/releases/auzel_old.html Drowning In Universes - Tangerine Dream - Quantum Gate / Quantum Key - K-Scope (2018) https://kscopemusic.bandcamp.com/album/quantum-gate-quantum-key
New Beth Gibbons, Osmanthus, Stelar Door, and more! Join Steve once again for NOISE!Playlist: Beth Gibbons - Floating On A MomentJayli Wolf - Holding OnJosh Cole - the subwayHartle Road - Catch the CradlePeripheral Vision - I've Got Nothing (Live)Ohmu - Blown BulbOsmanthus - Variegated Forms I, II & IIIAllison Burik - As The Norns WeaveAllison Burik - Seal FolkJames Blake - If You Can Hear MeJairus Sharif - SurfacingTortoise & Bonnie Prince Billy - That's Pep!A Pact Between Strangers - DanceA Pact Between Strangers - SleepBeverly Glenn-Copeland - Love Takes AllStelar Door - Saw HollowXenopraxis - Side D
For this episode we're thrilled to welcome our first guest of the fourth season - Tom, aka @thescentiest. Tom's stunning photos are immediately eye-catching on Instagram, and his fragrance reviews equally nuanced, captivating and thoughtful. He's a huge supporter of indie fragrance brands, retailers, and other creators; celebrating the industry with his annual The Scentiest Awards. Having met Tom for the first time in person at a recent fragrance launch, it's wonderful to welcome him to On the Scent!“My first memories are of my mum's L'Air du Temps miniatures, plus Rive Gauche, and Sun Moon Stars by Karl Lagerfeld. I was always so drawn to smelling them and loved how precious the bottles were...”Tom's personal fragrance journey shapes out like this (and we discussed as many as we could during this episode):CK Eternity - 12 y/oCK One - 13 y/oDrakkar Noir - 15 y/oD&G Pour Homme - 16 y/oPlus Plus Masculine, Diesel - 17 y/oGucci Pour Homme II - 21 y/oPaul Smith Extreme - 22 y/oSpicebomb - 34 y/oTerre D'Hermes Parfum - 35 y/oFall Into Stars, Strangelove - 37 y/oEverlasting, Zoo NYC - 39 y/oAnd a few things he's obsessed with now:“Perfumer H in general, but Ink, Incense Water, and Patchouli stand out. Plus Ink incense sticks are the best I've found!”Tobacco Honey - my first Guerlain, and the scent memory is of my late grandmother's cigar cabinet.Brompton Immortals, Exnihilo - the most zhuzhie rose ever!Fleur du mal, Dries Van Noten - Quentin Bisch does Osmanthus, with an artpiece of a bottle.Celine - Nightclubbing!Eris - Ma Bete (grrr)Isabelle Larignon - all three of her releases.We also mention:@houseofsarahbaker Gold Spot@lesabstraits La Douleur Exquise (from @sainte.cellier)Cacao Porcelana @ateliermateri
In this episode, Nathan interviews inspiring American writer, architect, and resident of the “Le Marche” Region, Mark Hinshaw. For the past 6 years, Mark and his wife "Sunny" Savina Bertollini, a skilled healer and herbalist, have made their home in this lovely central Italian region. This is a conversation you won't want to miss. Vera and Nathan share a lively conversation in Italian ( click here for the transcript or scroll down) and Vera shares some very interesting details about this little-known hidden gem region of Italy. Enjoy!
This week Plant Heritage business manager at Plant Heritage Gill Groombridge joins the Horticulture Week PodcastShe reports on her highlights from the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show (July 2023) which included displays focusing on the history of Plant Heritage's collections over 5 decades as part of its 45th anniversary celebrations.They announced the winner of the Brickell award - awarded to a collection-holder who has excelled in cultivated plant conservation, which this year went to the Saxifraga national collection holder, Adrian Young.Gill explains the way the people qualify to have their plant collection included under the Plant Heritage umbrella and how overlapping collections in different parts of the country may collaborate to best preserve individual specimens and collections. And where collection holders may, for a variety of reasons, be unable to continue preserving the collection, the importance of succession planning comes to the fore.In 2016 Plant Heritage launched the Missing Genera campaign which highlights a list of plant groups that are missing and hopefully encourage would-be plant collection holders to consider developing one. This year the focus is pollinating plants and includes, among others Cactus, Collocasia, Elaeagnus and Osmanthus."Our conservation team do some amazing work ensuring succession plans, working with collection holders to get what succession plans they can in place to keep plants safe for the future." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May roundup, Cinco de Drinko, Self Care, Philadelphia, Osmanthus scents, Hands and Feet, mascara and I read a book ♥️
Our next episode is with music writer and DJ, Osmanthus. We talked about early formative music discoveries via radio and internet forums, finding empowerment in the in-between nature of diasporic identity, and weaving together Japanese RPG soundtracks with club music in his EDZ mix.Listen to Osmanthus' mix, originally aired on Internet Public Radio: https://soundcloud.com/eternaldragonz/osmanthus-internet-public-radio-29-april-2021 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Saison 2! Episode 05: Dans cet épisode, on vous parle de boissons, de politesse et de tricot (entre autres!) Gaëlle et Ethan vivent à Shanghai, en Chine, et parlent de leur vie en Chine (tout est dans le titre en gros), de leurs découvertes et de leurs rencontres. Ca parle de nourriture (on n'est pas Français pour rien), d'insolite et des apprentissages de la semaine. Au menu: En apéro: "Comment ça va?" on vous donne des news des deux dernières semaines, le retour du retour du e-learning. et la saison des osmanthus! En entrée: "Quoi de bon?" Ethan vous dit ce qu'il pense du jus de fruit d'argousier. Alors, c'est bon? En plat principal: "Qu'est-ce que c'est que ça?“ On discute des rites du thé en Chine. Ce n'est pas forcément ce que vous croyez! En dessert: "Quoi de neuf?" Gaëlle se demande jusqu'où va la politesse en Chine, et présente la fameuse règle des "trois refus". Pour le café gourmand : "Qu'est-ce que tu veux?" On vous présente une figure emblématique du quartier, Tata tricot... un petit indice se cache dans son surnom! Le mot de la fin: un mashup peu ragoutant, et une petite chanson! Si cet épisode vous a plu, n'hésitez pas à nous laisser un message vocal sur la plateforme Anchor, et retrouvez des photos insolites de la Chine sur Instagram @chine.insolite, tous les mercredis! L'épisode est également présenté sur Instagram, n'hésitez pas à le suivre pour avoir plus de photos et d'infos sur les sujets que nous abordons. Bonne écoute et à dans deux semaines pour un nouvel épisode! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/commecheznousenchine/message
They're creepy and they're kooky. Mysterious and spooky. They're all together ooky. Nope, it's not the Adam's Family, it's the array of wicked plants on today's episode. It's Halloween season so we'll be talking about an assortment of plants that are spiky, darkly pigmented, stinky, or perhaps even the most wicked of all: invasive. But don't think every perennial or tree on this episode is unworthy of a spot in your garden, some are actually quite lovely landscape specimens. Can a plant truly be frightening? Sure it can—just ask Seymour Krelborn. For further reading on wicked plants, check out this book by Amy Stewart. Expert guest: Christine Alexander is the digital content editor for FineGardening.com. Danielle's Plants ‘Sasaba' holly tea olive (Osmanthus heterophyllus ‘Sasaba', Zones 6b-10) Jack in the pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum, Zones 4-9) Wingthorn rose (Rosa sericea spp. pteracantha, Zones 5-9) Carol's Plants Common dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum, Zones 4-8) 'Barker's Variety' monk's hood (Aconitum carmichaelii 'Barker's Variety', Zones 3-7) ‘Flying Dragon' hardy orange (Citrus trifoliata 'Flying Dragon', Zones 5-9) Christine's Plants ‘Teton' firethorn (Pyracantha ‘Teton' Zones 6 to 9) ‘Zanzibarensis' castor bean (Ricinus communis* ‘Zanzibarensis' Zones 8–10) Chinese wisteria (Wisteria sinensis*, Zones 4 to 9) *Indicates this plant may be considered invasive in certain parts of North America
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Out of more than 200 gardens nationwide, only one can take the coveted crown of RHS Partner Garden of the Year. The 2021 winner has just been announced as Larch Cottage Nurseries in Cumbria's Eden Valley – we meet owner Peter Stott to find out the story behind his piece of horticultural heaven. Back at RHS Garden Wisley, horticultural advisors James Lawrence, Nikki Barker and Julie Henderson get together to answer queries on compost-making, wildflower growing and how to get year-round fragrance in your garden. Plus we talk to Sui Searle, curator of the alternative gardening newsletter Radicle, to hear about her journey into gardening and the changes she hopes to inspire within the horticultural world. Useful links RHS Partner Garden of the Year Larch Cottage Nurseries How to make compost Radicle newsletter Join the RHS for free access to RHS Partner Gardens at selected times Scented shrubs mentioned Winter honeysuckles (Lonicera fragrantissima and Lonicera x purpusii) Osmanthus x burkwoodii and Osmanthus heterophyllus Elaeagnus x ebbingei Daphnes
The Full Moon in Libra is a time to look at your relationships and set new intentions for the next 12 months. In this episode we explore three essential oils Osmanthus, Chrysanthemum and Gardenia and how they walk you through the process of lifting your vibration, attracting those of the same resonance and opening your heart to these new possibilities.FOLLOW ADAMhttps://www.youtube.com/user/adambarralethttps://www.facebook.com/mycrystalconnections/https://www.instagram.com/adambarralet/FREE weekly e-newsletter exploring crystals and morehttp://www.adambarralet.com/BRING MAGICK HOMEMy books, oracle cards and morehttps://www.adambarralet.com/offerings-from-adam-shopMy monthly online crystal salehttps://www.facebook.com/groups/137571803636756/My favourite essential oilshttps://www.adambarralet.com/ordering-doterraKEEP IT SIMPLE!All my detailshttp://linktr.ee/adambarralet
All kinds of foolishness! STL coffee, Candice, Osmanthus frags, nails
Chevy (Chevarooney on Twich) welcomes The Man They Call Dave and Producer Joe to the Brewcast to taste and discuss three beers from Tree House Brewing Company. Tree House Brewing Company is located in Charlton, Massachusetts. It is considered to be amongst the best breweries in the United States, including public beer-rating sites like Untappd and Beer Advocate, as well as sites including Forbes, the Boston Globe, and Thrillist. Founded in 2011, the brewery was originally located in Brimfield, Massachusetts, then moved on to Monson, Massachusetts in 2013, before a multimillion dollar project landed them at their current site in 2017. Tree House is a non-distributing brewery—it is only available to buy on site—but given its popularity, lines at the brewery can run an hour or more on certain days. Charlton MA/Deerfield MA/Sandwich MA/Woodstock CT Restless- Weizenbock Expertly crafted, restless is rich, traditional, and delicious. To make it we combine wheat, a complex assortment of German speciality malts, and noble hops before fermenting it at the hands of a traditional top-fermenting Weiss yeast. It is then refermented in the can to produce a velvety texture that would otherwise be impossible to achieve. Combing the best elements of a traditional doppelbock and weissbier, it carries rich malt complexity and character with notes of brown bread, molten toffee, dark fruit, and mild yeasty phenols. *Pairs with chicken & dumplings or banana bread* All I Want for Christmas is Juice- DIPA All I Want For Christmas Is Juice is an American Double IPA brewed with a fruit-forward blend of American hops along with authentic Japanese sobacha tea paired with vanilla chamomile tea. Sobacha tea is made from roasted buckwheat grown in Hokkaido Japan without pesticides or chemicals. Pouring a hazy orange color in the glass, it carries notes of orange jam, guava soft candy, a hint of vanilla chamomile, and a pervasive and pleasant nutty undertone from the Sobacha Tea addition. *Pairs with rich cheeses or carrot cake* Jolly Juice Following on the wonderfully successful Jingle Juice, Jolly Juice is also brewed utilizing an intriguing ingredient paired with an onslaught of hops. By steeping dried Osmanthus flower in the wort during every phase of the process, we are able to extract incredible stone fruit-like character from this marvelous and mysterious ingredient. The resulting beer is highly enjoyable for its unique nature with floral stone fruit notes, ripe peach, and mild acidity that results from the use of this rare ingredient. #treehousebrewingcompany #beer #beerreview #podcast #WorkingFansPodcast Contact us at: Twitter-@FansWorking Instagram-workingfanswrestling_pod Facebook-Working Fan's Podcast Email- workingfanswrestlingpod@gmail.com Website- Workingfanspodcast.com, what-the-buzz.com Subscribe, rate, and review us here: Apple Podcasts- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/working-fans-podcast/id1482321716?uo=4 Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/6DmVnxHWcURUj8akmwDD9v Google Podcasts- https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kZDA1MTQ0L3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe4jz_jqytm48skZ0CT6gJg Wherever you can Like, Rate, Review, Subscribe, and tell a friend or two!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/workingfanpod/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/workingfanpod/support
Zhongli will sell no Osmanthus wine before its time. Keith Silverstein is a man who needs no introduction, his voice has been heard in countless pieces of media over the years. Seriously, it's much easier naming all the movies, shows and games Keith hasn't been in because his resume is just that impressive. In this episode Keith and I discuss his career, art prints, Genshin Impact, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, video games, Christmas movies, social media and a whole bunch of other stuff. Keith's social media profiles: https://twitter.com/silvertalkie https://www.instagram.com/keithsilverstein/
As the group returns to the stadium, they find an unexpected scene has unfolded there. Urgency takes hold as the group rushes to reunite with Adrick and the other Knights of Ulysia.
Der Ginkgo ist gelb und die Straßen duften nach Osmanthus. Dies ist eines der Events hier, das in fast keinem Reiseführer genannt wird. Außerdem geht es um die Wadenbeißer der deutschen Wikipedia, Noten und natürlich den NaNoWriMo. 00:30 NaNoWriMo2021 07:58 Osmanthus 10:30 Musik-Notation 15:46 WP-Wadenbeißer 25:41 Räuchermehl 27:26 80 vs. 20 29:22 Werbung Ausführliche Shownotes: umlautsdiary.wordpress.com Alle Links, ordentlich sortiert: umlauts.de MATRIX Gruppe: https://matrix.to/#/#umlauts:matrix.org Mastodon: https://literatur.social/@sventetzlaff --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sven-tetzlaff/message
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In this episode Suzy and Nicola delve into the world of fabulous affordable fragrances. Some of the most well respected perfumers in the industry have created spectacular fragrances, many of which are under £30 and Suzy shows us why price shouldn't always dictate our choices.Here's what they mention during the episode:On the Scent Podcast – Affordable Fragrances We Love…Zara @zara Fleur d'Oranger / Fleur de Patchouli / Bohemian Bluebells / Ebony Wood Ariana Grande @arianagrande Cloud Kim Kardashian @kimkardashian Pure Honey Katy Perry @katyperry Indi & Other Stories @andotherstories Sardonyx Fire Roger & Gallet @rogergallet Gingembre Jil Sander @jilsander Sun Listener Questions: Donna Karan @dkny Signature (discontinued) Shay & Blue @shayandbluelondon Black Tulip The Body Shop @thebodyshop Black MuskThe Body Shop @thebodyshop Ananya (discontinued) Cacharel @cacharelparfums Lou Lou Blue (discontinued)The Body Shop @thebodyshop Moringa Al Rehab @alrehab.official Elena Diesel @diesel Loverdose Jo Malone London @jomalonelondon Vanilla & AniseL'Occitane @loccitane_uk_ire Osmanthus Āman @aman Purifying Pulse Point Remedy Saini Blends @saini_blends_perfumers Gulab (rose) attar
In this episode, Suzy and Nicola start by reviewing the brilliant fragrance service Parfumado @uk.parfumado.com (This is a paid for review).Parfumado have a library of over 450 scents and you can pick a new one to try each month for £12.95. From niche to luxury to classic to fragrances that even Suzy hasn't heard of, they really do have a great collection. Start your subscription now by going to uk.parfumado.com and receive a 50% discount on your first month with discount code OUTSPOKEN50.Later in the episode it's time to discuss the fragrances that Nicola and Suzy are gravitating towards now that Summer is melting into Autumn as well as answering your fragrant prescriptions…Here are some of the fragrances mentioned during the episode:Nicola's Been Wearing:@millerharris L'air de Rien@chanelofficial Le Lion@maisonfranciskurkdjian Oud Satin Mood@officialbyredo Rose of No Man's Land@kilianparis Love Don't Be Shy@theperfumersstory Azzi Glasser Fever 54@fredericmalle Portrait of a LadySuzy's been wearing:@sg79sthlm 17@diptyque Tempo@histoiresdeparfums 1969@maisoncrivelli Hibiscus Mahajád@exnihiloparis French AffairListener Prescriptions:@houseofsarahbaker Bascule@rpparfums Robert Piguet Bandit@ruthmastenbroek Ruth Mastenbroek Dagian@cloonkeen Lá Bealtaine@loccitane_uk_ire Osmanthus
Today we celebrate a woman who helped change the way pesticides were used in the United States. We'll also learn about the man who taught thousands of people how to prune and graft fruit trees and also founded the Home Orchard Society. We’ll hear about how to prune Willow (Salix) trees with one of my favorite gardeners. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a lovely set of postcards - they’re so pretty - you may just want to display them. And then we’ll wrap things up with a marvelous article about a source of winter joy for gardeners: scented houseplants. Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart To listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to “Play the latest episode of The Daily Gardener Podcast.” And she will. It's just that easy. The Daily Gardener Friday Newsletter Sign up for the FREE Friday Newsletter featuring: A personal update from me Garden-related items for your calendar The Grow That Garden Library™ featured books for the week Gardener gift ideas Garden-inspired recipes Exclusive updates regarding the show Plus, each week, one lucky subscriber wins a book from the Grow That Garden Library™ bookshelf. Gardener Greetings Send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes, and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org Curated News Eight Steps to Create a Stunning Winter Garden | Stihl Facebook Group If you'd like to check out my curated news articles and original blog posts for yourself, you're in luck. I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So, there’s no need to take notes or search for links. The next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community where you’d search for a friend... and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group. Important Events January 29, 1958 On this day, a letter to the editor appeared in the Boston Herald in Section 3 on Page 14 and was titled “Evidence of Havoc by DDT." It was written by a Duxbury resident, journalist, and nature-lover: Olga Owens Huckins. Olga and her husband, Stuart, had created a little bird sanctuary around two kettle ponds on their property. It was a place, “where songbirds sang, ducks swam, and great blue herons nested.” When the Massachusetts State Mosquito control program began spraying in their area, Olga observed birds and insects dropping dead in her garden. During that time, the DDT was sprayed at a rate of two pounds per acre. The day Olga's property was sprayed, the pilot had extra DDT in his tank, and he decided to dump it - right over Olga's land. As a former Boston newspaper reporter, Olga voiced her anger and frustration in the best way she knew how; she wrote about it. Olga wrote, “The ‘harmless’ shower-bath killed seven of our lovely songbirds outright. We picked up three dead bodies the next morning right by the door. They were birds that had lived close to us, trusted us, and built their nests in our trees year after year.” After writing the paper, Olga wrote another letter to an old friend named Rachel Carson. Olga wanted Rachel to help her find people in Washington who could provide more information about the aerial spraying of DDT. Olga's letter sparked four years of research for Rachel. She put it all together in a book called Silent Spring. Rachel's book opened people's eyes to the hazards of DDT, and public opinion eventually forced the banning of DDT in 1972. Today, Olga & Stuart’s property has new owners, and they continue to preserve the site as a bird sanctuary - and also as a way to honor the two brave women who stepped forward when it was put in harm’s way: Olga Huckins and Rachel Carson. January 29, 2005 Today is the anniversary of the death of the founder of Home Orchard Society, Larry L. McGraw. Larry's obituary stated that pomology was his passion for more than 50 years. Pomology is the science of growing fruit. In an effort to preserve fruit trees in the Northwest, Larry began collecting scion wood specimens in his twenties, and he founded the Northwest Fruit Explorers - an organization and clearinghouse for fruit information and fruit growers. During his retirement, Larry worked as a horticulturist for the Oregon Historical Society. One day, Larry discovered an envelope that contained apple seeds that were a hundred years old. The letter inside the envelope referenced Marcus Whitman and his orchard. Marcus Whitman was a doctor who led a group of settlers West to Washington State by Wagon Train. His wife was named Narcissa, and she was very bright, a teacher of physics and chemistry. Marcus and Narcissa were part of a group of missionaries. They settled in an area now known as Walla Walla, Washington, and apparently, the Whitman's had an orchard. Beyond that, Marcus and Narcissa's time in Washington was not fruitful. They attempted to convert the local Native Americans to Christianity but were unsuccessful mainly because they didn’t bother to get to know or understand them. Sadly, their only daughter drowned when she was two years old. After that, Narcissa’s eyesight began to fail. When the Native Americans came down with measles, they blamed the settlers; but they specifically blamed Marcus since he was the town doctor. After almost all of the Native American children died, the surviving Native Americans launched an attack on the settlers. The Native Americans killed Marcus and Narcissa in their home on November 29, 1847, and this event became known as the Whitman Massacre. The seeds that Larry found at the Historical Society were one of the last pieces of the Whitman legacy. Larry's attempts to germinate the Whitman apple seeds were unsuccessful. However, Larry did successfully obtain apple trees from Russia for his Portland Orchard. By 1973, Larry had over 300 varieties of apples growing in his garden. Two years later, in May of 1975, Larry hosted a meeting with a group of other orchard growers. It was the official first meeting of the Home Orchard Society. During his lifetime, Larry taught thousands of people how to prune and graft fruit trees. And during his 50 years of researching apples, Larry estimated he had come across over 2,000 different apple varieties from all over the world. Unearthed Words ‘How often do you prune your willows?’ you may ask. It varies. We have to consider the vigor of different varieties and also, of course, the amount of time we have to spare. We do not always do what is ideal. If you can manage it, I think it is probably best to prune every year in February, removing about half the shoots, leaving the youngest, brightest looking stems. Some we prune every two years, others we leave longer, but not too long. I once left [the rosemary willow] Salix elaeagnos ""SAY-lix el-ee-ag-nus"(rosmarinifolia "rose-mah-ren-uh-FOE-lee-uh") for several years. With long, fluttering, grey leaves, white-backed on purple stems, they made superb specimens. I was loath to touch them but eventually found we had to restrain them from smothering other good things. Faced with the huge framework in winter how hard dare I cut? Gingerly I went round, saw in hand, cutting off vast pieces but leaving, to my mind, an acceptable framework. Along came a young member of staff who, not before consultation, confidently took the saw and slaughtered my framework almost to the ground. I knew, in theory, he was right, but I just hadn’t the courage. Would it be too great a shock to the system? Well, they were slow to start, but by the end of the season, they looked magnificent. — Beth Chatto, garden writer and gardener, Beth Chatto's Garden Notebook, January Grow That Garden Library Botanicals: 100 Postcards This wonderful postcard set came out in 2017, and the subtitle is 100 Postcards from the Archives of the New York Botanical Garden. “This box set contains 100 rare and brilliantly colored botanical art selections from the New York Botanical Garden archives. The images include portraits of exotic flowers, cacti, and succulents from the New York Botanical Garden collections. Each image is printed on lush, uncoated stock to mimic the original paintings. These postcards are perfect for mailing, framing, or using as gift tags.” You can get a copy of Botanicals: 100 Postcards from the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) and support the show using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $15 Today’s Botanic Spark Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart January 29, 1998 On this day The Courier-Journal out of Louisville, Kentucky ran an article by Tovah Martin called “Winter is the Best Time for Scented Plants.” Here’s an excerpt: “In spring, there are violets, but who wants to crawl around sniffing flowers 2 inches above the ground? In summer, roses abound, but close encounters with rosebuds can be thorny. No, winter is when scents are sampled to the best advantage. With a horde of houseplants huddled on the windowsill, nostrils can have a field day. Fragrant plants, however, have one slight drawback: They're not very showy. The blooms of most fragrant flowering plants are a subdued cream, white, or yellow in color and rather diminutive in size. Take heliotrope, for example. It smells like a comforting combination of baby powder, mulled cider, and vanilla. The flowers are white or purple in dense clusters, and they bloom lustily in any bright, south-facing window, if you can keep the white fly at bay. Or try a hoya in an east or west window; the blossom umbels smell something like freshly baked croissants. If you prefer something along the line of apricots warm from the oven, try Osmanthus fragrans, the sweet olive. If you crave the citrus scent but don't have a sizable south window, consider a mock orange, Pittosporum tobira, instead. It tolerates low light and produces nosegays of creamy flowers amid laurel-like leaves. Several jasmines (especially Jasminum sambac Maid of Orleans, J. nitidum, and J. tortuosum) are easy houseplants. They exude deep, romantic, come-hither-type perfumes with a hint of musk thrown in after dark. If you like the idea but not the musky note, go for a jasmine imitator. Trachelospermum asiaticum is known as pinwheel jasmine but bears no kinship to jasmine whatsoever. It looks like jasmine with vining branches studded by umbels of star-shaped blossoms with twisted petals. And it smells like jasmine, without the questionable undertones. One word of caution before you delve into the realms of fragrant plants: If you can, try to sample potential perfumed roommates before adopting them. One person's perfume is another's stench. Even certain jasmines can rub some people the wrong way. British garden designer Gertrude Jekyll spent a night abroad and sent her lady's maid searching for a dead rat. It turned out to be Jasminum polyanthum, growing by the window.” Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener. And remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."
Sweet Osmanthus is only in bloom for a short time each year. But the Chinese love it so much that they make sure its fragrance lasts the whole year.
Free Healthy Habits Checklist + Full Show Notes available at ww.valerielavignelife.com/94 Today I'm sharing some of my favourite natural tools and solutions to support healthy daily habits and rituals. I'll be sharing the products, how I use them, and also how you can get yours if you are someone who is ready to elevate your everyday health and wellness! [1:09] The products in today's episode are some of dōTERRA's most popular oils and products, and the kit they are packaged in is part of our team's annual Healthy Habits Program. Each year we run a Healthy Habits Program using these products, and a few others. Consider today a sneak peak or introduction into the program and the products it's based around. Let's jump into the Healthy Habits Collection! This kit includes five life changing essential oils including a unique grounding blend that smells like a magical forest. It also has five supplements for foundational nutrition and health, and lastly it includes everyone's favourite natural muscle rub. This Healthy Habits Collection is available in the US and Canadian market, however I encourage purchasing from the US warehouse as it includes the fifth supplement that the Canadian warehouse does not yet have. SHOP THE HEALTHY HABITS COLLECTION HERE For those of you who don't already know me, my name is Valerie LaVigne. I am a Health Coach, Business Owner, and lover of life. When people ask me to help them live a healthier lifestyle, the first thing I ask them is: “How much water do you drink every day?” You would be amazed by how many of us are chronically dehydrated. You'll be even more amazed at what happens when you start drinking the correct amount of quality water your body needs daily. Yes it can be THAT SIMPLE (sometimes). [2:50] Drink More Quality Water Drink at least half your bodyweight in ounces of water per day. If you need a reminder, there is a Water Reminder App, you can set up your own reminders to track your progress. If you're hungry between or right after a meal, it's usually because you're thirsty. Drink up! dōTERRA's citrus oils are incredible and cleansing when you add them to your water! They have a chemical constitution called limonene in them. Lemon comes in the Healthy Habits kit, but you could also use Wild Orange, Green Mandarin, or my favourites: Grapefruit and Tangerine! Some other popular oils to add to water are Smart + Sassy and Peppermint! I add 1-2 drops of oil per Litre of water. Any time you're adding oils to your water, you must use your glass or stainless steel water bottle. No plastic! You can add on additional citrus oils to your purchase if you like. [4:23] Now the true foundation to health and wellness is nutrition, which is why I take dōTERRA's Lifelong Vitality Pack aka LLV daily. Hello amazing daily supplements! After a few weeks of consistently taking these natural solutions, you may notice more energy, less pain, glowing skin, and stronger nails! I've noticed so many different areas of my body improving after taking these supplements, like less sugar cravings and more mental energy. This package of three supplements was designed to be the perfect compliment of a balanced wholefood diet with the nutrient equivalent of 12 servings of fruits and veggies in every serving. LLV Testimonials The first of these three powerhouse supplements is the Microplex VMz This is a complete vitamin mineral. It's “complete” because the body is able to digest it AND use all the vitamins. The body treats it, absorbs it, and eliminates it just like it does with food. Microplex VMz solves the absorption issues of vitamins and minerals in other supplements by using a glycoprotein matrix to help the body absorb vitamins, and chelated minerals (meaning the minerals bound to an amino acid). Basically it makes the supplement recognizable as food nutrients. Some of the many vitamins and minerals in this supplement are: vitamins A, D, E, C and B, and minerals calcium, magnesium, and zinc. The second supplement in the LLV Pack is xEO Mega Say hello to the ONLY omega supplement I have ever finished an entire container of. I used to dislike fish and would try to supplement it with omegas and I honestly tried them all. The fish burps, the chalky tablets, the liquid versions, the flavoured versions - GROSS. ALL OF THEM. I eventually just started eating fish because I hated the supplements I was trying… UNTIL dōTERRA's xEO Mega! It's combination of sea and land based Omega 3's - which are crucial for our brains, and unique blend of essential oils (clove, frankincense, thyme, cumin, wild orange, peppermint, ginger, caraway, and german chamomile) add antioxidant protection - and the best part. No nasty burps! This supplement is also available in the vegan package, however not part of the Healthy Habits Kit. And finally the Alpha CRS+ A super powerful antioxidant that also gives us energy at the cellular level = natural energy for consistently feeling good :) No energy drink sugar crashes after those garbage (fake) energy boosters. The Alpha CRS+ stimulates overall cellular health which protects our DNA from being attacked by damaging free radicals. [7:54] TerraZyme This supplement supports healthy digestion and metabolism of enzyme-deficient, processed foods. You want to take 1 capsule with each meal, possibly two if your meal is mostly cooked or processed so that the food nutrients get properly absorbed. TerraZyme also supports the conversion of food nutrients to cellular energy and promotes comfort for mild food intolerances. It contains a proprietary blend of 10 active whole-food enzymes that help your body digest complex carbs, fats, sugars, fiber, and proteins! [8:31] PB Assist+ Probiotic This supplement is available in the US version of the kit, however it is not yet available in Canada. Canadian dōTERRA current or new members can access the US kit through the US warehouse. What I love about this probiotic is it has both pro AND pre biotic fibers that are double encapsulated for better absorption in the needed areas of the GI tract. They also look really cool and a little alien-like from other supplements you have have used or seen. AND you don't have to keep them in the fridge! Which is amazing because I always forgot to take supplements I had to keep in the fridge. PB Assist+ promotes balance and proliferation of beneficial bacteria. It helps to maintain healthy intestinal microflora balance. The way I like to explain is, is that this keeps the flowers in your belly garden happy and healthy. [9:46] Daily healthy habits are not only what you're putting into your body, but also how you are moving your body. Daily movement is key in creating a healthy lifestyle, as I always say, “a body in motion, stays in motion.” Getting into a movement practice is a lot easier than it sounds. Most people overthink or over complicate starting a new workout routine or fitness schedule, but really it's super simple, and the key is finding an exercise you love! Personally, I really enjoy lifting weights at the gym. I also love yoga and pilates. I do not do well in Zumba, but once in a while I'll pop into a spin class. Since I'm not very consistent with spin, it's a little add on when I can, and I focus on getting to the gym instead. Now that we have chosen our favourite workout style, we can create a realistic routine. Take a peek at your calendar and see if there are any gaps where you can schedule a workout in. Start with 2-3 times per week. If this is new for you, I recommend investing in a personal trainer, or signing up for group classes in advance. Keeping your schedule the same every week will help you make your workouts a habit. Be kind to yourself and do your best. Remember, you're just starting out! If your body isn't used to lots of movement and/or exercise, your muscles will probably start telling you about. Which is why I LOVE dōTERRA's Deep Blue Rub! The Deep Blue Rub is a blend of different essential oils including: Wintergreen, Camphor, Peppermint, Ylang Ylang, Helichrysum, Blue Tansy, Blue Chamomile, and Osmanthus blending together in a convenient and soothing cream. This rub provides a comforting sensation of cooling and warmth to problem areas. You can apply this to your feet and knees before or after exercise. My boyfriend loves this rub before because he says it helps him to activate his muscles. I enjoy the rub post because I like the cooling and soothing sensation. It's also great when you massage it into the neck and shoulders after a long day of work to ease muscle tension. [12:22] Now I mentioned the Healthy Habits Collection also contains different essential oils and essential oil blends. If you've been listening to the Women's Empowerment Podcast, you'll know that I teach a lot about essential oils and how to use them, so I will include those previous episodes in the show notes for you if you want to go back and re-listen. Or if you're new to the show and you want some more information, everything you need can be found in the episodes listed below: E90: Q&A: dōTERRA & Essential Oils E88: Elevate Your Daily Routine with Essential Oils E80: Q&A: My Monthly Wellness Boxing's E76: Green Cleaning with Essential Oils E49: Raising Your Vibration with Essential OilsE35: The Simplest Ways to Use Your Essential Oils E32: Summer Essentials to Optimize Your Health E24: Natural Solutions: Informed Self Care E23: Natural Solutions: Reduce Synthetic Exposure E22: Natural Solutions: Rest & Stress Management E21: Natural Solutions: Nutrition & Exercise E09: Top 10 Essential Oils Master Class E02: Hormone Essentials [12:52] Let's talk about The Oils that come in the kit! The first is Lavender. Most people have heard of, and could probably recognize this scent. What you may not know is that Lavender essential oil is known as “The Swiss Army Knife” of essential oils because it has SO MANY USES! I will include more information about lavender in the Healthy Habits Checklist freebie available in the show notes page for you. One of the most common uses of lavender is for its calming effect. You can add a few drops to your diffuser before bed, or place a drop on your pillow as part of your evening ritual. This helps with the transition from a busy day to a restful night. Lemon is also part of the Healthy Habits Collection. It is one of my most used oils because I love the smell so much, and it's great for making household cleaners! There are heaps of uses for lemon oil that I have put in the Healthy Habits Checklist (Big Yellow Button Below) but my most favourite lemon oil hack is when I need to get something sticky off a surface! For example a price tag that leaves goo on a new flower pot. Or when you miss the mail person and the sticker they leave on the window leaves guck when you take it off. SImply add 5-8 drops of lemon EO onto a piece of paper towel and gently rub until the goo is gone! You might need a few more drops depending on the stickiness of the goo. The “King of Essential Oils” is Frankincense and a small bottle of this oil is included in the Healthy Habits Collection. This oil is POWERFUL! It has many uses including soothing and warming the body, as well as helping glowing skin, and balancing mood. This oil is a wonderful companion to lavender in the diffuser before bed, or with lemon in the diffuser throughout the day for a fresh and warm mood boosting scent. The Healthy Habits Collection comes with two different essential oil blends. The first is On Guard. This is also known as dōTERRA's Protective Blend as it was designed to support immunity and fight harmful germs. I use On Guard and Lemon together in all purpose cleaning spray as it is safe and great for green cleaning kitchen surfaces. It's wonderful in the diffuser and has a warm and spicy aroma. Balance Blend is the other of the essential oil blends in the Healthy Habits Collection. This is also known as the Grounding Blend and it was the first of dōTERRA's oils that I truly fell in love with. You see, the reason why I got into essential oils in the first place was because I was searching for a holistic approach to coping with anxiety. I started with the aromatherapy oil collection and really loved those oils, however something shifted deeply within me when I was introduced to Balance blend. I'm not sure what it was, but I'll call it love at first smell! I diffused this all day every day, and I would put a drop on the bottoms of my feet morning and night. It was an absolutely life-changing ritual for me that really helped me with my anxious feelings. I am still very much in love with this blend and I always recommend it to friends who are looking to find some relaxation and stability. It's so simple to incorporate and very gentle and supportive. I'll share more information about this blend and the other oils in the Healthy Habits Checklist (Big Yellow Button Below) [16:33] If you're listening to this podcast episode and you're thinking, “OH EM GEE this all sounds amazing and I would LOVE to get these natural tools into my home!” You can go to the show notes page and at the bottom you will see a link with information on how to join our essential oil community. When you purchase this collection through my link you will be sent the products I talked about today. Please send me an email with a picture or copy of your receipt so that I can support you in the products you purchased. You can refer back to this episode and the Healthy Habits Checklist (Big Yellow Button Below) as a guide for the specific oils and supplements I discussed today. How to Join the VLL Essential Oil Community! If you have any more questions you can contact me through my contact page. I would be happy to answer any of your questions!
🌺🌻🌼No siempre colocamos plantas en sus jardín por su bella floración o porque posee una hojas increíbles. El perfume es una de las razones por las que encuentran un espacio en nuestros jardines. ¿No te parece? Pueden ser las hojas las aromáticas, pero hoy serán las flores. Tres plantas conocidas pero que quiero destacar. # Jazmín de leche (Trachelospermun jazminoides) # Gardenia o jazmín del cabo (Gardenia augusta y Gardenia jazminoides) # Olivo de olor (Osmanthus fragans) Espero que te gusten y me hagas un comentario. Te invito al canal de Telegram https://t.me/jardineros y desde allí al grupo privado para compartir conocimientos y experiencias. Muchas gracias!
🌺🌻🌼No siempre colocamos plantas en sus jardín por su bella floración o porque posee una hojas increíbles. El perfume es una de las razones por las que encuentran un espacio en nuestros jardines. ¿No te parece? Pueden ser las hojas las aromáticas, pero hoy serán las flores. Tres plantas conocidas pero que quiero destacar. # Jazmín de leche (Trachelospermun jazminoides) # Gardenia o jazmín del cabo (Gardenia augusta y Gardenia jazminoides) # Olivo de olor (Osmanthus fragans) Espero que te gusten y me hagas un comentario. Te invito al canal de Telegram https://t.me/jardineros y desde allí al grupo privado para compartir conocimientos y experiencias. Muchas gracias!
En estos tiempos extraños y convulsos es imperativo volver a conectarnos con las herramientas básicas del Ser humano. Este podcast nos lleva de paseo por los caminos sanadores del Feng Shui y nos inspira a sintonizar con nosotros mismos mediante la Aromaterapia. Sylvia Galleguillos fundó el centro de aromaterapia Osmanthus y la Escuela Chilena de Feng Shui. Autora de diversos libros como "Feng Shui en el hemisferio sur","Mis aromas favoritos" “Amor. Los Secretos Del Feng Shui Y La Aromaterapia” "Plantas que sanan" entre otros.
Mrs. May Lee and Wai Yee are going to introduce how to make Osmanthus and red bean cake. - 桂花因為香味持久, 很多時會製成糕點，李太與楊蕙而會於節目中介紹在這款傳統糕點，加上紅豆，成為非常吸引的小食。
Mrs. May Lee and Wai Yee are going to introduce how to make Osmanthus and red bean cake. - 桂花因為香味持久, 很多時會製成糕點，李太與楊蕙而會於節目中介紹在這款傳統糕點，加上紅豆，成為非常吸引的小食。
doTERRA Deep Blue Essential Oil blend is perfect for a soothing massage after a long day of work. Wintergreen, Camphor, Peppermint, Ylang Ylang, Helichrysum, Blue Tansy, Blue Chamomile, and Osmanthus work together to soothe and cool. After long hours on the computer, try rubbing Deep Blue proprietary blend on your fingers, wrists, shoulders, and neck. A few drops of Deep Blue Soothing Blend diluted in doTERRA Fractionated Coconut Oil can be part of a cooling and comforting massage. https://www.doterra.com/US/en/p/deep-blue-oil
Mission encre noire Tome 22 Chapitre 276. XieXie de Michelle Deshaies paru en 2018 aux éditions David. Chine 1934. XieXie est une simple silhouette qui se détache sur la montagne, une de ses botte fleurie à la main, lorsque Rose débarque à Guilin. L'invasion de l'armée japonaise est encore une vaste rumeur, l'union des nationalistes du Kuomintang et des communistes de Mao, une bonne nouvelle. Raymond Vaughn, dirige la Lloews Coal Mining Corporation de Liverpool ici aux Guangxi. Il en tire certains privilèges dont celui d'engager XieXie à son service. À 300 miles de Guangzhou, la servante chinoise et le couple vont se prendre d'affection. Il naît une relation intime et de confiance plutôt inédite à cette époque. À la veille de la révolution communiste, les vents d'est et d'ouest se font déjà menaçant, la guerre approche. Il est temps de penser à fuir. Tous ? Osmanthus, ces arbustes aux fleurs blanches odorantes, évoquant le houx, plus communément appelé olivier à thé embaume le studio pour accueillir l'autrice, Michelle Deshaies à Mission encre noire. Extrait:« Jim Fultergrass s'approche de Xiexie et lui demande de regarnir son assiette de sandwichs au boeuf et de salade de thon. XieXie s'apprête à le faire quand Rose s'approche - Jim, je peux vous aider moi-même ou demander à Quijong, notre servante, de le faire, car Xiexie est notre invitée ce soir - Ça ne me cause aucun problème, chère madame Vaughn, tant et aussi longtemps que je peux me remplir la panse de tout ce que vous avez à manger de si délectable. Indiscrètement, madame Vaughn, mangerons-nous ce soir à l'anglaise ? - Appelez-moi Rose, je vous en prie. - Alors Rose, il y a si longtemps que je n'ai goûté au plum-pudding. J'en rêve comme à la douceur humide du sexe d'une jeune chinoise. Garderez-vous encore Xiexie longtemps avec vous ou a-t-elle une jeune soeur ou amie qui pourrait servir dans ma maison avec autant de grâce et de savoir-faire que XiXie? - Jim, je vous en prie, XieXie est chez nous comme une amie. Elle fait partie de la famille. En ce sens, vos propos sont tout à fait déplacés. Vous avez déjà plusieurs jeunes filles qui veillent à vos besoins.» L'été de Katya de Trevanian paru en 2017 aux éditions Gallmeister traduit de l'anglais par Emmanuele de Lesseps. Trevanian, aka Rodney Whitaker, est un des auteurs américains les plus mystérieux. Disparu en 2005, il laisse planer dans son sillon une aura de secret. L'été de Katya fait parti d'une réédition de ses oeuvres aux éditions Gallmeister. Ce thriller psychologique vient épaissir les ténèbres. La famille Tréville quitte précipitamment Paris pour s'installer près de Salies, aux Pays-Basques en France. Le jeune assistant du docteur Hippolyte Gros, Jean-Marc Montjean fait la connaissance des jumeaux Katya et Paul lors d'un banal accident de Bicyclette. La froideur de l'accueil du frère ne vaut que par la beauté ensorcelante de la soeur. Le jeune homme est conquis. Devenu ami de la famille, en dépit des bonnes manières, un lourd et douloureux secret hante leur hospitalité. Livre envoûtant, l'Été de katya détonne sur l'ensemble de la production de Trevanian. Le style surannée donne le ton juste d'une époque en sursis d'une des guerre les plus meurtrière de l'histoire en devenir. Extrait:« Tandis que je marchais vers Salies sous un ciel bleu de Prusse constellé d'étoiles brillantes, paradis accessible, je songeais aux discordances de la soirée à Etcheverria: les joyeux bavardages du dîner face aux sombres avertissements de Paul ; la gaieté spontanée de Katya qui se divertissait d'un rien, de jeux de mots comme de cailloux, face à ses soudains accès de mélancolie rêveuse ; la gentillesse brouillonne de M. Tréville face à la peur de ses enfants qu'il n'apprenne mon affection pour Katya. C'était un tableau peint à moitié en aquarelle et à moitié au couteau avec des couleurs criardes. Et j'avais la conviction désagréable que c'était l'aquarelle qui était artificielle, tel un léger lavis recouvrant des portraits plus inquiétants.» Stand by Saison 1 de Bruno Pellegrino, Aude Seigne et Daniel Vuataz, illustré par Frédéric Pajak paru en 2018 aux éditions Zoe. Prenez un équation simple: une catastrophe se déclare. Le paysage environnant se dégrade rapidement. Introduisez un groupe de personnages livré à lui-même. Mélangez. que reste-t-il ? En d'autres termes, voilà le défi lancé par les éditions Zoé à ces jeunes auteur-e-s membres de l'AJAR (association de jeunes écrivain-e-s suisses). Composer les quatre épisodes d'une première saison d'un feuilleton littéraire, rappelant les faits d'armes des illustres feuilletonistes George Sand, Balzac ou Zola. Une éruption volcanique géante du côté de Naples vient modifier rapidement l'écosystème d'une partie de la planète. Trois groupes de personnages se retrouvent bloqués. Alix à Paris/Roissy, Une jeune équipe européenne de recherche au Groenland et Nora, Virgile et Vasco en visite au Monténégro pour ouvrir un testament. Comment rentrer chez soi ? Cette première saison tient toutes ses promesses: rebondissement, point tournant, fin ouverte...peut-être même y retrouverez-vous l'ambiance de vos séries télévisées préférées, telles Walking dead, Breaking Bad ou les Revenants ? Le défi est lancé, À vous de le relever. Extrait:« Il est trois heures du matin, le milieu d'une nuit d'octobre au Groenland. La baie de Melville, côté Canada, est peut-être striée de reflets bleu profond. À soixante kilomètres de la côte ouest, les lumières de Clim Camp clignotent. Dans cette base affrétée par le service climatique européen, des jeunes hommes et femmes venus de tout le continent effectuent leur quota de jours obligatoire, sous la houlette d'un instructeur agréé. cette année, ils sont cinq à avoir passé l'automne à Clim camp, rejoints il y a dix jours par un autre groupe, ceux de Summit, eux aussi en fin de mission. Tout le monde est regroupé pour attendre l'avion qui doit les ramener à la maison.»
Mission encre noire Tome 22 Chapitre 276. XieXie de Michelle Deshaies paru en 2018 aux éditions David. Chine 1934. XieXie est une simple silhouette qui se détache sur la montagne, une de ses botte fleurie à la main, lorsque Rose débarque à Guilin. L'invasion de l'armée japonaise est encore une vaste rumeur, l'union des nationalistes du Kuomintang et des communistes de Mao, une bonne nouvelle. Raymond Vaughn, dirige la Lloews Coal Mining Corporation de Liverpool ici aux Guangxi. Il en tire certains privilèges dont celui d'engager XieXie à son service. À 300 miles de Guangzhou, la servante chinoise et le couple vont se prendre d'affection. Il naît une relation intime et de confiance plutôt inédite à cette époque. À la veille de la révolution communiste, les vents d'est et d'ouest se font déjà menaçant, la guerre approche. Il est temps de penser à fuir. Tous ? Osmanthus, ces arbustes aux fleurs blanches odorantes, évoquant le houx, plus communément appelé olivier à thé embaume le studio pour accueillir l'autrice, Michelle Deshaies à Mission encre noire. Extrait:« Jim Fultergrass s'approche de Xiexie et lui demande de regarnir son assiette de sandwichs au boeuf et de salade de thon. XieXie s'apprête à le faire quand Rose s'approche - Jim, je peux vous aider moi-même ou demander à Quijong, notre servante, de le faire, car Xiexie est notre invitée ce soir - Ça ne me cause aucun problème, chère madame Vaughn, tant et aussi longtemps que je peux me remplir la panse de tout ce que vous avez à manger de si délectable. Indiscrètement, madame Vaughn, mangerons-nous ce soir à l'anglaise ? - Appelez-moi Rose, je vous en prie. - Alors Rose, il y a si longtemps que je n'ai goûté au plum-pudding. J'en rêve comme à la douceur humide du sexe d'une jeune chinoise. Garderez-vous encore Xiexie longtemps avec vous ou a-t-elle une jeune soeur ou amie qui pourrait servir dans ma maison avec autant de grâce et de savoir-faire que XiXie? - Jim, je vous en prie, XieXie est chez nous comme une amie. Elle fait partie de la famille. En ce sens, vos propos sont tout à fait déplacés. Vous avez déjà plusieurs jeunes filles qui veillent à vos besoins.» L'été de Katya de Trevanian paru en 2017 aux éditions Gallmeister traduit de l'anglais par Emmanuele de Lesseps. Trevanian, aka Rodney Whitaker, est un des auteurs américains les plus mystérieux. Disparu en 2005, il laisse planer dans son sillon une aura de secret. L'été de Katya fait parti d'une réédition de ses oeuvres aux éditions Gallmeister. Ce thriller psychologique vient épaissir les ténèbres. La famille Tréville quitte précipitamment Paris pour s'installer près de Salies, aux Pays-Basques en France. Le jeune assistant du docteur Hippolyte Gros, Jean-Marc Montjean fait la connaissance des jumeaux Katya et Paul lors d'un banal accident de Bicyclette. La froideur de l'accueil du frère ne vaut que par la beauté ensorcelante de la soeur. Le jeune homme est conquis. Devenu ami de la famille, en dépit des bonnes manières, un lourd et douloureux secret hante leur hospitalité. Livre envoûtant, l'Été de katya détonne sur l'ensemble de la production de Trevanian. Le style surannée donne le ton juste d'une époque en sursis d'une des guerre les plus meurtrière de l'histoire en devenir. Extrait:« Tandis que je marchais vers Salies sous un ciel bleu de Prusse constellé d'étoiles brillantes, paradis accessible, je songeais aux discordances de la soirée à Etcheverria: les joyeux bavardages du dîner face aux sombres avertissements de Paul ; la gaieté spontanée de Katya qui se divertissait d'un rien, de jeux de mots comme de cailloux, face à ses soudains accès de mélancolie rêveuse ; la gentillesse brouillonne de M. Tréville face à la peur de ses enfants qu'il n'apprenne mon affection pour Katya. C'était un tableau peint à moitié en aquarelle et à moitié au couteau avec des couleurs criardes. Et j'avais la conviction désagréable que c'était l'aquarelle qui était artificielle, tel un léger lavis recouvrant des portraits plus inquiétants.» Stand by Saison 1 de Bruno Pellegrino, Aude Seigne et Daniel Vuataz, illustré par Frédéric Pajak paru en 2018 aux éditions Zoe. Prenez un équation simple: une catastrophe se déclare. Le paysage environnant se dégrade rapidement. Introduisez un groupe de personnages livré à lui-même. Mélangez. que reste-t-il ? En d'autres termes, voilà le défi lancé par les éditions Zoé à ces jeunes auteur-e-s membres de l'AJAR (association de jeunes écrivain-e-s suisses). Composer les quatre épisodes d'une première saison d'un feuilleton littéraire, rappelant les faits d'armes des illustres feuilletonistes George Sand, Balzac ou Zola. Une éruption volcanique géante du côté de Naples vient modifier rapidement l'écosystème d'une partie de la planète. Trois groupes de personnages se retrouvent bloqués. Alix à Paris/Roissy, Une jeune équipe européenne de recherche au Groenland et Nora, Virgile et Vasco en visite au Monténégro pour ouvrir un testament. Comment rentrer chez soi ? Cette première saison tient toutes ses promesses: rebondissement, point tournant, fin ouverte...peut-être même y retrouverez-vous l'ambiance de vos séries télévisées préférées, telles Walking dead, Breaking Bad ou les Revenants ? Le défi est lancé, À vous de le relever. Extrait:« Il est trois heures du matin, le milieu d'une nuit d'octobre au Groenland. La baie de Melville, côté Canada, est peut-être striée de reflets bleu profond. À soixante kilomètres de la côte ouest, les lumières de Clim Camp clignotent. Dans cette base affrétée par le service climatique européen, des jeunes hommes et femmes venus de tout le continent effectuent leur quota de jours obligatoire, sous la houlette d'un instructeur agréé. cette année, ils sont cinq à avoir passé l'automne à Clim camp, rejoints il y a dix jours par un autre groupe, ceux de Summit, eux aussi en fin de mission. Tout le monde est regroupé pour attendre l'avion qui doit les ramener à la maison.»
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Seventh Day of the Seventh MoonBy Ken Liu“Tell me a story,” said Se. She had changed into her pajamas all by herself and snuggled under the blankets.Se’s big sister, Yuan, was just about to flip the switch next to the bedroom door. “How about you read a story by yourself? I have to … go see a friend.”“No, it’s not the same.” Se shook her head vigorously. “You have to tell me a story or I can’t sleep.”Yuan glanced at her phone. Every minute tonight was precious. Dad was out of town on business, and Mom was working late and wouldn’t be home till midnight. Yuan needed to be home before then, but if she could get her little sister to sleep quickly, she’d still have a couple of hours to see Jing on this, her last night in China.Full transcript appears after the cut.----more----[Intro music plays.]Hello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode 15 for September 15th, 2015. This is your host, Keffy, and I'm super excited to be sharing this story with you.Our story today is "Seventh Day of the Seventh Moon" by Ken Liu.Ken Liu (http://kenliu.name) is an author and translator of speculative fiction, as well as a lawyer and programmer. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards, he has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons, among other places. He also translated the Hugo-winning novel, The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin, which is the first translated novel to win that award.Ken’s debut novel, The Grace of Kings, the first in a silkpunk epic fantasy series, was published by Saga Press in April 2015. Saga will also publish a collection of his short stories, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, in March 2016. He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.We also have a special guest reader this week, which is awesome.Our reader this week is S. Qiouyi Lu. You can visit their site at http://s.qiouyi.lu/ and follow them on Twitter at @sqiouyilu.Seventh Day of the Seventh MoonBy Ken Liu“Tell me a story,” said Se. She had changed into her pajamas all by herself and snuggled under the blankets.Se’s big sister, Yuan, was just about to flip the switch next to the bedroom door. “How about you read a story by yourself? I have to … go see a friend.”“No, it’s not the same.” Se shook her head vigorously. “You have to tell me a story or I can’t sleep.”Yuan glanced at her phone. Every minute tonight was precious. Dad was out of town on business, and Mom was working late and wouldn’t be home till midnight. Yuan needed to be home before then, but if she could get her little sister to sleep quickly, she’d still have a couple of hours to see Jing on this, her last night in China.“Come on, Yuan,” Se begged. “Please!”Yuan came back to the side of the bed and stroked Se’s forehead gently. She sighed. “All right.”She texted Jing: Late by half hour. Wait?The crystal cat charm, a gift from Jing, dangled from her phone. It twirled and glittered in the warm bedroom light as she waited impatiently for the response.Finally, the phone beeped. Of course. Won’t leave until we meet.“Tell the story about the Qixi Festival,” said Se, yawning. “That’s tonight, isn’t it?”“Yes, yes it is.”Long ago, a beautiful young woman, the granddaughter of the Emperor of Heaven, lived in the sky by the eastern shore of the Silver River—that’s the broad band of light you can sometimes see in the sky at night, when the air is clear.She was skilled at the loom, and so that’s why people called her—“You skipped the part where you describe her weaving!”“But you’ve heard this story a hundred times already. Can’t I just get it over with?”“You have to tell it right.”—as I had apparently neglected to mention: her works were displayed proudly by the Heavenly Court in the western sky at every sunset: glorious clouds of crimson, amethyst, periwinkle, and every shade in between. So people called her Zhinü, the Weaver Girl. And though she was the youngest of seven immortal sisters, we mortals addressed her by the honorific Big Sister Seven.But over time, Zhinü grew wan and thin. Her brows were always tightly knit into a frown, and she did not wash her face or comb out her hair. The sunset clouds she wove were not as lovely as before, and mortals began to complain.The Emperor of Heaven came to visit. “What ails you, my granddaughter?”“Haha, you do that voice so well. You sound just like Grandfather.”“I’m glad you approve. Now stop interrupting.”“Oh, Gonggong, I’m so lonely. Living all by myself in this hut, my only company are my loom—jiya, jiya, it squeaks all day long—and a few magpies.”The Emperor took pity on her and found her a good match. The young man tended to cows on the western shore of the Silver River, so people called him Niulang, the Cowherd. He was handsome and kind and full of funny stories, and Zhinü loved him, and he her, the moment they set eyes on each other.“See, I’m not such a bad matchmaker.” The Emperor of Heaven smiled as he stroked his beard. “Now I know you’re young, and you should have fun. But now that you have a companion, please don’t neglect your work.”Zhinü moved to the western shore of the Silver River to be with Niulang, and the two of them married. They had two boys, and there never was a happier family.“Oh, no, here comes the boring part. You can skip it if you want to.”“No way! This is the best part. You’ll understand when you’re older. Now pay attention.”Every morning, as Niulang got up before sunrise to take the cows to their favorite pasture, Zhinü could not bear the thought of being separated from him. So she would come along. She’d put the two babies in two baskets draped on each side of an old, gentle ox, and she would ride on the back of a pure white bull led by Niulang. They’d sing together, tell each other stories from before they met, and laugh at the jokes that only they understood.Zhinü’s loom sat unused back at the hut, gathering dust.Sunsets became ugly affairs. The few clouds that remained became tattered, wispy, colorless. The people laboring in the fields lost the beauty that had once lifted up their hearts at the end of a hard day, and their laments rose to the Heavenly Court.“My maritorious child,” said the Emperor of Heaven—“What does that word mean?”“It means loving your husband too much.”“How can you love someone too much?”“Good question. I don’t know either. Maybe the Emperor of Heaven didn’t have enough love in his heart to understand. Maybe he was too old.”—“I warned you about neglecting your duty. For your disobedience and neglect, you must now move back to the eastern shore of the Silver River and never see Niulang and your children again.”Zhinü begged for reprieve, but the Emperor’s word was as irreversible as the flow of the Silver River.At the Emperor’s decree, the Silver River was widened and deepened, and Zhinü forever parted from her husband. Today, you can see the star that is Zhinü on one side of the Silver River and the star that is Niulang on the other, their two sons two faint stars on each side of Niulang. They stare at each other across that unbridgeable gap, the longing and regret as endless as the flowing river.“Why did you stop?”“It’s nothing. My throat just felt itchy for a bit.”“Are you sad for Niulang and Zhinü?”“Maybe … a little bit. But it’s just a story.”But the magpies that once kept Zhinü company took pity on the lovers. Once a year, on the seventh day of the seventh moon by the lunar calendar, on Qixi, the day when Zhinü is at her highest position in the sky, all the magpies in the world fly up to the Silver River and make a bridge with their bodies so that the lovers can spend one night together.This is the day when all the young women in old China would pray to Big Sister Seven for love.Oh, I know you want to hear more about the bridge of magpies. You love this part. Well, I imagine it’s a lot of work for the birds. They probably have to go to magpie bridge-building school, and those who’re a bit slow have to go to cram school for extra study sessions …Yuan turned out the light and tiptoed out of her sister’s bedroom.On my way, she texted.She made sure the air conditioning was set comfortably low, locked the door of the apartment, and ran down the stairs. And then she was in the hot, humid evening air of Hefei in August.She biked through the streets, dodging an endless stream of cars beeping their horns. She liked the physicality of the ride, the way it made her body come alive, feel awake. She passed the sidewalks filled with people browsing past stores and kiosks filled with everything imaginable: discount electronics, toys, clothes, fancy European soups and cakes, mouth-watering sweet potatoes baked in tinfoil and fried, smelly tofu. The heat and the exertion stuck her shirt to her skin, and she had to wipe her forehead from time to time to keep the sweat out of her eyes.And then she was at the coffee shop, and Jing—slender, graceful in a plain white dress and a light jacket (for the air conditioning), a faint whiff of the floral perfume that always made Yuan dizzy—greeted Yuan with that bright smile that she always wore.As if this wasn’t the night the world ended.“Are you done packing?” Yuan asked.“Oh, there’s always more to pack.” Jing’s tone was light, breezy, careless. “But I don’t have to get to the airport ‘til nine in the morning. There’s plenty of time.”“You should dress in layers, with something long-sleeved on top,” said Yuan—mainly because she feared saying nothing. “It can get cold on the plane.”“Want to take a walk with me? The next time I walk around at night I’ll be in America. Maybe I’ll miss all this noise.”Yuan left her bike locked to the light post outside the coffee shop, and they strolled along the sidewalk like the rest of the crowd. They did not hold hands. In Shanghai, perhaps no one would have cared, but in Hefei, there would have been looks, and whispers, and maybe worse.Yuan imagined Jing walking about the campus of the American high school at night. Jing had shown her pictures of the red brick buildings and immaculate lawns. And the smiling boys and girls: foreigners. Yuan felt out of breath; her heart seemed unable to decide on a steady rhythm.“Look at that,” said Jing, pointing to the display window of a pastry shop. “They’re selling Qixi Lovers’ Cakes now. So overpriced. And you know some stupid girl is going to throw a fit if her boyfriend doesn’t buy it for her. I want to throw up.”“Not quite as bad as Valentine’s Day,” Yuan said. “I think the vendors are pretty restrained. Relatively speaking.”“That’s because people aren’t into Qixi any more. We Chinese always get more enthusiastic for Western imports, even holidays. It’s a national character weakness.”“I like Qixi,” Yuan said. She said it more emphatically than she meant to.“What, you want to set out an altar under a melon trellis, offer up a plate of fruits, pray to Big Sister Seven, and hope for a spider to weave a web over the offering by morning so you’ll get a nice husband in the future?”Yuan’s face grew hot. She stopped. “You don’t have to mock everything Chinese.”Jing cocked her head, a teasing smile in her eyes. “You suddenly getting all patriotic on me now?”“Your father has the money to pay for you to go to an American boarding school. That doesn’t make you better than everyone else.”“Oh, lay off that wounded tone. You’re hardly some migrant worker’s daughter.”They stared at each other, the neon lights from the nearby stores flickering over their faces. Yuan wanted to kiss Jing and scream at her at the same time. She had always liked Jing’s irreverence, the way she wanted to turn everything into a joke. She knew her anger had nothing to do with this conversation about Qixi at all.Jing turned and continued down the sidewalk. After a moment, Yuan followed.When Jing spoke again, her tone was calm, as if nothing had happened. “Remember the first time we went hiking together?”That had been one of the best days of Yuan’s life. They had skipped their cram school sessions and taken the bus to Emerald Lake, an artificial pond bordering several college campuses. Jing had showed Yuan how to set up her phone so that her mom couldn’t see the messages Jing sent her, and Yuan had showed Jing her baby pictures. They had bought a lamb chuanr from a street vendor and shared it as they walked along the lakeshore. Her heart had beaten faster with each bite of roasted meat off the skewer, thinking that her lips were touching where hers had touched. And then, as they strolled through one of the campuses, Jing had boldly taken her hand: it was a college, after all.And then that first kiss behind the willow tree, tasting the hot spices from the lamb kebab on Jing’s tongue, the calls of wild geese behind her somewhere…“I remember,” she said. Her voice still sounded wounded, and she didn’t care.“I wish we could go there again,” Jing said.The anger in Yuan disappeared, just like that. Jing always had such a way with her. Yuan felt like putty in her hands.“We can chat on QQ or Skype,” Yuan said. She hurried to catch up so that she was walking next to Jing. “And you’ll come back for visits. This isn’t like the old days. It will be okay. We can still be together.”They had wandered off the main thoroughfare onto a less busy side street. The streetlights on one side were out, and looking up they could see a few stars in the sky. Hefei wasn’t as polluted as some of the cities on the coast.“I’m going to be really busy,” Jing said. Her tone was calm, too calm.“We can text every day, every hour.”“It’s different over there. I’ll be living on my own in a dorm. I have to actually study if I want to go to a good college. My family is paying a lot to give me this.”“Americans don’t study that much.”“It’s not like watching American TV shows. There aren’t subtitles. I’ll meet lots of new people. I have to make a new life over there, new friends. I’ll need to be thinking, talking, breathing English all the time if I want to make it.”“I can text you in English,” Yuan said. “I’ll do whatever you want.”“You’re not listening,” Jing said. She stopped again and looked at Yuan.“What are you trying to say?” As soon as she asked the question, Yuan regretted it. It made her sound so weak, so clingy, like a girl from one of those Korean dramas.“I’m going away, Yuan. I told you this was going to happen last year, when we … started.”Yuan looked away so that Jing would not see her eyes. She pushed the image of Jing with someone else out of her mind. She cursed her eyes and told them to behave and stop embarrassing her.“It will be okay.” Jing’s tone was now comforting, gentle, and that made it worse. “We’ll both be okay.”Yuan said nothing because she knew she couldn’t control her voice. She licked her lips, tasting the salt from the sweat of her ride. She wanted to wipe her eyes so she could see clearly again, but she didn’t want to do it in front of Jing.“I want to make this night a happy memory,” Jing said, but her voice finally cracked. She struggled, but failed, to keep her calm mask on. “I’m trying to make this easier. Isn’t that what you’re supposed to do for those you love?”Yuan looked up, blinking her eyes hard. She looked for the Silver River, and she remembered that in English it was called the Milky Way—what a graceless and silly name. She looked for Zhinü and Niulang, and she vaguely remembered that in English they were called Vega and Altair, names as cold and meaningless to her as the stars.Just then, magpies seemed to come out of nowhere and gathered over their heads in a cloud of fluttering wings. While they looked up, stunned, the flock swept out of the night sky, descended over them like a giant spider web, and lifted them into the heavens.Riding on the wings of magpies, Yuan found, was not like riding a magical carpet.Not that she knew what riding a magical carpet felt like—but she was sure that it didn’t involve being constantly poked from below by a hundred—no, a thousand—little winged fists.The magpies would fall a bit below where they were and flap their wings rapidly in an upward burst until they collided with the girls’ bodies. The combined force of all the magpies would push them up until the birds lost their momentum and began to fall away, and then a new wave of upward-thrusting magpies would take their place. The girls resembled two ping-pong balls riding on the water spout from a hose pointing up.In the maelstrom of wings they found each other and clung together.“Are you all right?” They each asked at the same time.“What in the world is happening?” Jing asked, her words jumbled together from fear and excitement.“This is a dream,” Yuan said. “This must be a dream.”And then Jing began to laugh.“It can’t be a dream,” she said. “These magpies carrying us: they tickle!”And Yuan laughed too. It was so absurd, so impossible; yet it was happening.Some of the magpies began to sing, a complicated, trilling, lovely chorus. There were magpies of every description: some with white bellies, some with white beaks, some with iridescent, shimmering, blue wings. Yuan felt as if she and Jing were enclosed inside the beating heart of some giant, flying, alien musical instrument.Arms around each other, gingerly sitting side by side, they peeked out at the world below from between the darting wings of the magpies.They were floating in a dark sea. The lights of the city of Hefei spread out below them like a pulsing, receding jellyfish.“It’s getting cold,” said Yuan. She shivered as the wind whipped her hair around her face.“We’re really high up,” said Jing. She took off her summer jacket and draped it around Yuan’s shoulders. Yuan tucked her nose into the collar of the jacket and breathed in the lingering perfume. It warmed her heart even if the thin fabric did little against the chill.Then Yuan berated herself. Jing had broken up with her, and she didn’t need to look so needy, so pathetic. It was fine to cling to Jing in a moment of weakness, but now they were safe. Gently, she took her arm from around Jing and shrugged out of her arm as well. She lifted her face into the clear, frosty air, and tried to shift away from Jing, keeping some distance between them.“Reminds you of Su Shi’s poem, doesn’t it?” Jing whispered. Yuan nodded reluctantly. Jing was the literary one, and she always knew the pretty words, suitable for every occasion.A half moon, like a half-veiled smile, loomed pale white in the dark sky. It grew brighter and larger as they rose on the backs of the magpies.Jing began to sing the words of the Song Dynasty poem, set to a popular tune, and after a moment, Yuan joined her:When did the Moon first appear?I ask the heavens and lift my wine cup.I know not whether time passes the same wayIn the palace among the clouds. I’d like to ride up with the wind,But I’m afraid of the chill from being so highAmong the jade porticos and nephrite beams. We dance with our shadows.Are we even on earth any more?The silver light dapples the window,Illuminating my sleepless night.Do you hate us, Moon?Why are you always waxing just when we’re parting?Like a dancer and her shadow, the two girls swayed, each separately, to a harmony as young as themselves and as old as the land beneath.“So, it’s all true,” said Jing.The magpies had lifted them above the clouds and leveled off. As they glided over the cottony mists, they could see a celestial city of bread loaf-like buildings, punctuated by spiky towers here and there, gleaming in the late summer moonlight in the distance: blue as ice, green as jade, white like ivory. The styles of the buildings were neither Western nor Chinese, but something that transcended them all: heavenly, the Palace of Immortals.“I wonder if there really are immortals living there,” said Yuan. What she didn’t say out loud was her secret hope: she and Jing had been picked by the magpies for this trip to the heavens because the immortals thought they were as special a pair as Niulang and Zhinü—the thought was tinged with both excitement and sorrow.And then they were at the Silver River. It was broader than the Yangtze, almost like Taihu Lake, with the other shore barely visible on the horizon. The rushing torrent roared past like stampeding horses, and giant waves as tall as the apartment buildings in Hefei pounded against the shore.“Hey, don’t carry us over the water!” Jing shouted. But the magpies ignored her and continued to fly towards the river.“They’re building a bridge,” said Yuan. “It’s Qixi, remember?”Indeed, more flocks of magpies appeared. Along with the flock carrying the girls, they congregated like rivulets coalescing into a mighty river of wings. The magpies hovered over the water, with newcomers extending the flock’s reach towards the other shore. They were forming an arching bridge over the Silver River.“I have to take a picture of this,” said Yuan, and she took out her cell phone.The crystal cat charm dangling from the phone caught the light of the moon and dazzled. The magpies immediately surrounding Yuan trilled and dashed at it, knocking the phone out of her hand. And then it was a free for all as more of the magpies forgot about building the bridge and rushed after the shiny bauble. Even when charged with a magical mission, birds were still just birds.Or maybe even the birds have realized we’re not such a special pair after all, Yuan thought, and the charm is more interesting.She gazed after her phone anxiously. If Se woke up from a nightmare, she might try to call her. And if her mom got home before her, she might wonder where she was. She needed that phone back. She hoped the birds would bounce the phone closer to her so she could snatch it.Then those worries were pushed out of her mind as the magpies that had supported Yuan dropped off to join the chase after the charm, and no new magpies replaced them. Her weight overwhelmed the few magpies that remained on task, and she began to fall. She didn’t even have time to cry out.But then a strong hand caught her right wrist and arrested her descent. Yuan looked up into Jing’s face. She was lying down on the bridge of magpies, and she strained as she reached out and held onto Yuan with one hand while fumbling in her purse with the other.“Let go!” shouted Yuan. “You’ll fall, too!” Her world seemed to shrink down to her hands as they clasped around Jing’s hand, around her warm, pale skin. She willed herself to let go, but she could not.“Don’t be ridiculous,” said Jing, panting.The magpies continued to fight each other for the shiny charm, causing Yuan’s phone to bob up and down over the flock like a stone skipping over water. They had stopped extending the living bridge over the water.Jing finally managed to free her own phone from her purse. She paid no attention as her purse almost tumbled over the side of the bridge, where it would have disappeared into the roiling waves below. By feel, she pressed the first button on the dial pad.Yuan’s phone came to life and began to vibrate and buzz. The shocked magpies backed off in a panic, and the phone stayed still in the air for a second before falling, faster and faster, and finally disappeared into the Silver River without a trace.Yuan felt her heart sink. That cat charm, the first gift Jing had ever given her, now gone forever.“Good thing I have you on speed dial,” Jing said.“How do we still have reception here?”“After all that, that’s what you are worried about?” Jing laughed, and after a moment, Yuan joined her.The magpies seemed to have awakened from a bad dream, and they rushed over and lifted Yuan up onto the bridge. Once the girls were safe, the magpies continued to extend their bridge to the other side of the Silver River, leaving the pair at the middle of the bridge, suspended over the endless water and mist.“We almost caused the magpies to fail to build the bridge,” Yuan said. “It would be so sad if Niulang and Zhinü don’t get to meet this year.”Jing nodded. “It’s almost midnight.” She saw the look on Yuan’s face. “Don’t worry about not being home. Nothing bad can happen on the night of Qixi.”“I thought you weren’t into Qixi.”“Well, maybe just a little bit.”They sat down on the bridge together, watching the moon rise over the Silver River. This time, Yuan did not let go of Jing’s hand.“She’s coming,” said Yuan. She jumped up and pointed down the bridge towards the eastern shore. Now that she had spent some time on the bridge of magpies, she was getting pretty good at keeping her footing over the fluttering wings.In the distance, through the mist that wafted over the bridge from time to time, they could see a small, solitary figure making its way towards them.“So is he,” said Jing. She pointed the other way. Through the mist they could see another tiny figure slowly creep towards them.The girls stood up and waited, side by side, looking first one way and then the other. Being in the presence of the annual reunion of this pair of legendary lovers was exciting, maybe even better than meeting TV stars.The two figures from the opposite ends of the bridge came close enough for Yuan and Jing to see them clearly.Out of the east, an old woman approached. Yuan thought she looked as old as, maybe even older than, her grandmother. Her back bent, she walked with a cane. But her wrinkled face glowed healthily with the exertion of having traveled all the way here. Wearing a Tang Dynasty dress, she looked splendid to Yuan. Her breath puffed out visibly in the cold air.Out of the west, an old man emerged from the mist: straight back, long legs, wiry arms swinging freely. His full head of silvery white hair matched the old woman’s, but his face was even more wrinkled than hers. As soon as he saw the old woman, his eyes lit up in a bright smile.“They’re not—” Jing started to say in a whisper.“—quite what we expected?” finished Yuan.“I guess I always pictured immortals as being … well, I guess there’s no reason to think they wouldn’t grow old.”A wispy tendril of sorrow brushed across Yuan’s heart. She tried to imagine Jing as an old woman, and the tenderness made her almost tear up again. She squeezed Jing’s hand, and Jing squeezed back, turning to smile at her.The old man and the old woman met in the middle of the bridge, a few paces away from where the girls stood. They nodded at Jing and Yuan politely and then turned their full attention to each other.“Glad to see you looking so well,” said Zhinü. “Da Lang told me that you were having some trouble with your back the last time he visited with his family. I wasn’t sure you were going to make it here this year.”“Da Lang always exaggerates,” said Niulang. “When he visits I don’t dare to sneeze or cough, lest he insist that I go to the moon to visit Chang’E for some Osmanthus herbs. This old bag of bones can’t really take any more medicine. I think he’s more upset than you or I that his brother didn’t want to be a doctor.”They laughed and chatted on, talking about children and friends.“Why don’t they kiss?” Jing whispered to Yuan.“That’s a Western thing,” Yuan whispered back. “Niulang and Zhinü are old school.”“I’m not sure that’s true. I’ve seen Internet posts arguing people in ancient China used to kiss—but anyway, they’re standing so far apart!”“It’s like they’re friends, not lovers.”“It seems that we have some curious guests,” said Zhinü as she turned around to look at the girls. She didn’t sound angry—more like amused.“We’re sorry,” said Yuan, feeling her face grow hot. “We didn’t mean to be rude.” She hesitated. It didn’t seem right at all to call this old woman “Big Sister Seven.” So she added, “Grandma Zhinü and Grandpa Niulang.”“We just thought,” Jing said, “that … um … you’d be more … passionate.”“You mean less laughing, and more tears and recitation of love poems,” said Niulang, a gentle smile in his eyes.“Yes,” said Jing. “No,” said Yuan, simultaneously.Zhinü and Niulang laughed out loud. Niulang said, “It’s okay. The magpies have been building this bridge for thousands of years, and they sometimes bring guests. We’re used to questions.”Zhinü looked from Yuan to Jing and back again. “You two are together?”“Yes,” said Jing. “No,” said Yuan, simultaneously. They looked at each other, embarrassed.“Now that sounds like a story,” said Zhinü.“We were together,” said Yuan.“But I’m leaving,” said Jing. “We’ll be parted by the Pacific Ocean.” And they told their story to Niulang and Zhinü. It seemed perfectly right to pour their hearts out to the legendary lovers.“I understand,” said Zhinü, nodding sympathetically. “Oh, do I understand.”At first I was inconsolable. I stood on the shore of the Silver River day after day, pining for a glance of my husband and children. I thought the pain in my heart would never go away. I refused to touch my loom. If my grandfather was angry, then let him find someone else to weave the sunsets. I was done.The first time we met over the bridge of magpies, Niulang and I could not stop crying the whole time. My children were growing up so fast, and I felt so guilty. So, when we had to part again, Niulang came up with a stratagem: he asked the magpies to retrieve two large rocks that were about the weight of my babies and carried them home in two baskets on the ends of a pole over his shoulder, the same way he had carried the boys onto the bridge. And everyone thought they had gone home with him. But unbeknownst to anyone else, I carried the boys home with me on my back.And after that, every year, as we met on the bridge, we passed the boys back and forth. They’d spend one year with me, one year with Niulang. They would not have their parents together, but they would have both of them.Each time we met, I told him again and again of the solitude of my hut, the desultory squeak of my loom. And he told me of how he took his herd to the same pastures that we had gone to as a family, to relive the happiness we shared. The grass had grown thin and bare from overgrazing, and his animals were just skin and bones.And then, one year, when the boys were a little older and could walk on their own, Niulang held me and told me that he didn’t want to see me sad any more.“We live a whole year for this one day,” he said. “We’re letting our lives pass us by. It’s not right that you should sit by your loom pining from morning ‘til evening. It’s not right that our sons should think our lives are lives of sorrow. It’s not right that we should come to believe that yearning for what we can’t have is what love is all about.”“What are you saying?” I asked. I was angry, and I didn’t know why. Was he saying that he no longer loved me? I had been faithful to him, but had he been to me?“We know we cannot be together,” he said. “We know that sometimes things happen to people that keeps them apart. But we have refused to look for new happiness. Are we sad because we’re in love? Or are we sad because we feel trapped by the idea of love?”I thought about what he said, and realized that he was right. I had become so used to the story about us, the idea of us living our whole lives for this once-a-year meeting, that I hadn’t really thought about what I wanted. I had become my own legend. Sometimes the stories we tell ourselves obscure our truths.“You’re beautiful when you laugh,” he said.“We’re beautiful when we seek to make ourselves happy,” I said.And so I went back to my loom and poured my love for Niulang into my weaving. I thought those were some of the most beautiful sunsets I had ever woven.And then I found that love was not a limited thing, but an endless fount. I found that I loved the laughter of my children, and the chatter of friends new and old. I found that I loved the fresh breeze that brought smells from far away. I found that other young men made my heart beat faster.And Niulang went and took his herd to new pastures, and he came up with new songs. Young women came and listened to him, and he found that conversation with them gladdened his heart.We told each other these things the next time we met over the bridge. I was glad for him and he for me. We had been clinging to each other as though we were afraid to drown, but in fact, we had been holding each other back from moving on.“And so we each went on and had other loves, joys as well as sorrows,” said Zhinü.“We still meet once a year,” said Niulang, “to catch up on each other’s lives. Old friends are hard to come by.” He and Zhinü looked at each other with affection. “They keep you honest.”“Are you disappointed?” asked Zhinü.Jing and Yuan looked at each other. “Yes,” they said together. Then they said “no,” also together.“Then, are you not in love anymore?” asked Yuan.“You ask that question because you think if we’re no longer in love, then that means the love we had was somehow not real.” Zhinü turned serious. “But the past does not get rewritten. Niulang was the first man I loved, and that would be true no matter how many times I fell in love after him.”“It’s time to go,” Niulang said. The magpies under them were getting restless. The eastern sky was brightening.“You were together, and you’re together now,” said Niulang to the girls. “Whatever comes, that remains a fact.”“You look lovely together, dears,” said Zhinü.Niulang and Zhinü embraced lightly and wished each other well. Then they turned and began to walk in opposite directions.“Look!” said Jing, and gripped Yuan’s hand.Where the old Niulang and Zhinü had been, there was now a pair of ghostly figures: a young man and a young woman. They embraced tightly, as if Yuan and Jing were not there at all.“They were such a handsome couple,” said Yuan.“They still are,” said Jing.And as the bridge of magpies broke up, carrying the girls down to earth, they looked back at the pair of ghost lovers dissolving gradually in the moonlight.Miraculously, Yuan found her bike where she’d left it.The sidewalks were still relatively empty. The first breakfast shops were just getting ready for the day, and the smell of warm soy milk and freshly fried youtiao filled the air.“Better rush home,” said Yuan. “Don’t miss your flight.”“And you need to go, too. Your mom will be worried sick!”Jing pulled her in, wrapping her arms around her. Yuan tried to pull back. “People will see.”“I don’t care,” Jing said. “I lied that day at Emerald Lake. I told you I had kissed other girls before. But you were the first. I want you to know that.”They held each other and cried, and some of the passers-by gave them curious looks, but no one stopped.“I’ll call you every day,” Jing said. “I’ll text you whenever I get a chance.”Yuan pulled back. “No. I don’t want you to think of it as a chore. Do it if you want to. And if you don’t, I’ll understand. Let whatever will happen, happen.”A quick kiss, and Yuan pushed Jing away. “Go, go!”She watched as Jing ran down the street to catch the bus. She watched as the bus pulled into the stream of traffic, a mighty river of steel like the Silver River, and disappeared around the corner.“I love you,” Yuan whispered. And no matter how the stream of time flowed on, that moment would be true forever.END“Seventh Day of the Seventh Moon” was originally published in Kaleidoscope, published by Twelfth Planet Press, edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios in 2014.This recording is a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license which means you can share it with anyone you’d like, but please don’t change or sell it. Our theme is “Aurora Borealis” by Bird Creek, available through the Google Audio Library.Thanks for listening, and I’ll have another story for you on September 22nd.[Music plays out]
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