Jane's Garden Report

Mother, today we celebrate the unity of the human family. Mother, we ask your forgiveness, for our destructive ways. Mother,we seek today to learn to forgive one another. Help us, Mother, to learn to love you as the old ones loved you, so that we may heal ourselves and our environment.

A quick, nutritious seasonal meal both nourishing and satisfying for a summer's day.

Learn to dress a salad, make a marinade with oil and vinegar or lemon. An easy way to make vegetables & salads come alive with health and flavor.

Learn how to make this delicious and nourishing dish from leftovers or anytime you need extra vitamins and fiber. Easy and fun for vegans, vegetarians and fish and meat eaters alike.

Try this East-West flavor fusion that combines fruity, sour, sweet and hot and goes well with rice dishes or fish.

Serve this dish as a main course or side dish. According to Ayurveda, saffron has wonderful healing qualities for all body types especially as a “blood revitalizer”.

Check out Jane's 'Fortune Cookie of the Day'! Spiritual Fire

Our most recent visit to the farmer's market in Brentwood, California, inspired me to create this local version of a pasta primavera, which after all, is a dish where you get to celebrate the vegetable stars of springtime! This dish of vegetables with a bit of pasta will really shine & deeply satisfy your hunger for nourishment.

Curtis made a funny face when I said I would use the word susurrus to describe the sound of that night, the night of the Ice Storm. It was his "slithering snakes on the roof"- susurrus.

Within frozen depths does warmth stir, and mud rises. Seeds of air & fire, water & starlight move into the cold and wet places that awaken from slumber.

There is a tremendously powerful acquisitive and materialistic collective thought-form hovering in the ethers around us, and part of our joy and inner work as bringers of Light into this world is to counter that thought-form with compassion, opening our hearts and giving freely to those around us in need of uplifting.

my wish, Remember this Solstice. Pray for healing, pray to be heard around the world in every language.