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Calculate Your Key Number To find out what this month has in store for you, calculate your key number by adding the day and month of your birth. Continue adding until you arrive at a single...
Calculate Your Key Number To find out what this month has in store for you, calculate your key number by adding the day and month of your birth. Continue adding until you arrive at a...
"Spring rain Leaking through the roof Dripping from the wasps nest." ~Matsu Basho Every spring the wasps awake outside my window. More than once we have had nests removed, but every year they...
"The world's favorite season is spring. And, all things seem possible in May." —Edwin Teasdale. Calculate Your Key Number To find out what this month has in store for you, calculate your key...
You can always tell it's April. By the sound of falling rain... That mystic mournful music As it trickles down the drain. Calculate Your Key Number To find out what this month has in store for you,...
I love the spring For every day There's something new That comes to stay Another bud Another bird Another blade The sun has stirred. Last week, I took my first beach walk of the year without a coat...
"Equal dark, equal light Follow the circle, deep insight Blessed Be, Blessed Be The transformation of energy!" So it flows, out it goes. Threefold back it shall be. Blessed Be, Blessed Be. The...
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bow. ~AE Houseman. Vancouver is wonderful in February. Pink snow everywhere. This time of year I'm always reminded of returning from...
"To love and be loved is like feeling the sun from both sides." Calculate Your Key Number To find out what this month has in store for you, calculate your key number by adding the...
"If apples were pears And peaches were plums And the rose had a different name I'd love you just the same." That is my favourite Valentine rhyme. I can never resist it at the beginning of February....