Pulling a thread; unraveling wisdom

At the present Moment
Bloom and Bud and Bloom again
"Botanically speaking, the raspberry is also known as an aggregate fruit where every drupelet originated from a single pistil of the raspberry flower." ~ Mandy Smith
COXI and COXII enzyme inhibitors with anti-inflammatory and pain relieving properties
Epigynous berries are simple
Fleshy Fruit.
Genera : plural of genus - taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms.
"I'd like to be those flowers, open to everything." - The Wailin' Jennys, Bird Song

Jujube : is a species of Ziziphus in the buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae), used primarily as a shade tree that also bears fruit.
"Keep wanting to move forward with the blog/website, with my herbal business, and much more." ~ Mandy
Leaf contains wonderful medicine...used in easing discomfort during pregnancies and menopause.
Nahuatl was the language of the Aztecs and has been spoken in Central Mexico since at least the 7th century AD.
Okay, so this one will be a bit like reading the dictionary or wikipedia, but with friends, and great pictures :)
Prunus : is a genus of trees and shrubs, which includes the plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots and almonds.
Quitting the blog thing - but just for a month
http://atthepresentmoment.blogspot.com/2014/06/raspberries-reconfiguration.html
Some flowering plants that produce drupes are coffee, jujube, mango, olive, most palms, pistachio, white sapote, almond, apricot, cherry, damson, nectarine, peach, and plum.
Thinking about the warm, juicy fruit makes my mouth water.
Unleashing the creativity
"Vow to live in the sunshine and warmth with every breath and beat of my heart." ~ Mandy
"What could be sweeter than a sun-ripened raspberry?" ~ Mandy
eXocarp, or skin; and mesocarp, or flesh
Yearning for whatever is next
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujube


The ABCs of Why I do Cartwheels - July 2, 2014 - updated June 26, 2018

In response to my promising a cartwheel in honor of their birthday, a friend wrote:

"Sometime I need to hear the story behind all of these cartwheels you do! Either way, I know that's an honor in itself... so thank you very much! "

Bailey, this blog post is dedicated to you :)

I was 35 years old when I moved to Cary, NC, on Halloween, 1996. I had never lived more than 15 or 20 mins from the Atlantic Ocean, so, the first time we traveled to the NC coast, I expressed the joy I felt by turning a cartwheel. This photo was taken at Wrightsville Beach, September 2009.

Fourteen years later, a high school friend challenged me to do 49 cartwheels in celebration of my 49th Birthday. Thank you Andy Dreher, for kicking off something that has enhanced my life daily and inspired me to rename my blog - I don't even remember what it used to be! I decided to do cartwheels more frequently, and then daily for a number of reasons, as you will see below. 

Since then there have been library cartwheels (when I was feeling particularly good or particularly challenged), and inspired "gift" cartwheels. The first one for Eloise Grathwohl Birthday. Now I sometimes do more than one a day, depending on how many people I know are celebrating their birthday, or if someone is trying to take a picture and wants to get it just right. When I turned 50, my kid - and my Dad - said maybe I needed to start counting backwards so I could still do one when I celebrate my 100th Birthday. While I thought that was a good idea, I have yet to start counting backwards. However, when I celebrated my 52nd Birthday, I did 53 - one to grown on. Click here to see that blog post and stay tuned for what happens this year...because... in 18 days, I will be 57 :) And now for the ABCs of why I do cartwheels:

Absolutely everything can be made better by turning a cartwheel, or two.
Because I can!
Celebrate life!
Do it to gain a fresh perspective
Erupted out of the sheer joy of being reunited with the ocean again
Feeling Frustrated or Fascinated
Gratitude expression
How it began... Hmmm... How old was I when I first did one?
Irrepressible urge to reconnect with my child-like self
Joy
Keeps me young, playful, healthy, and strong
LOVE the feeling I get when I Let go, breathe and turn everything over
My Birthday gift to myself: click here for video of 14 of those, one right after the other :)
Napatree Point is where I remember doing many as a kid - here is the most recent
 May 2018
One on my 100th Birthday?! 
Posted by my good friend Sue Gager Palmer and her Humphrey in my honor :)
Quick video of one such beach cartwheel click here
Reminder to turn everything over to God. Everything
Spontaneous expression of gratitude and joy
Turn everything over to God aka "GUS" or the God of my
Understanding
Visceral response to arrival at the ocean again after having been away for too long
Why not?
eXpression of eXuberance
Yoga helps :)
Zest for Life

Summer Yoga/Vacation plans for July

As A new month begins, A plan unfolds for a fabulous vacation, and then Another new beginning...

(I somehow lost the link to this. If it is your photo, please let me know so I can correct my goof. Thanks :)
Energized by nature
Freedom to
Grow
July begins...
Ken posted this am (29 June 2014) 
Mural at "my" yoga studio
Napatree Point is calling my Name
Ostentatious - what a great word. I watching Iron Man with Elizabeth but now - time to go to the
Pool - while I can - the one and only thing I might miss just a little bit
Quiet will be worth it though
Raleigh - here we come...
Thank you, Meghan Natifa Griffith for another great class.
Vacation will also be Yoga-filled
eXciting new 
Yoga classes to try and then...