Salt Lake City-based startup, Halcium, is working on a small-scale wind turbine designed as a standalone renewable energy system for individual homes or buildings. Known as the PowerPod, the portable renewable energy device, which has no external moving parts, is a 1 kW wind turbine that potentially produces 3x more power than a regular turbine. […]
PowerPod: Small-scale wind turbine designed to be a standalone renewable energy system — Life & Soul Magazine
Accumulating toys and new playthings is pretty much inevitable over the Christmas and summer holidays. We all like to reward and treat our kids and provide them with fun and educational sources of entertainment. And toys and playtime are an essential part of the growth and development of our children. But giving our little ones […] […]
How to declutter your children’s toy collection — TerraCycle News — Life & Soul Magazine
Who you are on the inside is what matters. Your body, body parts don’t define who you are on the inside! Your body is merely a machine. The energy that is inside of you is what drives the body, form not the body. So this importance we give on how we look and what body parts we have or not has no relevance. A male can be in a female body and a female can be in a male body. It is the soul that you are defined by. A soul is a male and female spiritual energy being as one soul together. We have both feminine and masculine energy beings within us. It is not our job to judge who we are based on the body but to accept and acknowledge who we are and our role that has been chosen for you to play in the microcosm of the macrocosm that serves the greater good.
The soul he or she is the one that chooses what her or his form they want to be. Who are we to judge that? And who gives you the right to judge the form that a Soul, Divine Goddess, God has chosen to express themselves? Hmm? No you don’t have any right. The God is a female and male without one the other does not exist. And a God or a Goddess divine soul can choose whatever form they want to take to express themselves. All we have to do is look within, accept who we are within and then watch the Magick. No one will ever dare to tell you anything. The problem, the fight, the drama arises when we do not accept who we are on the inside. It is not other people’s job to accept us and acknowledge us. It is our job and then others will accept you for who you are. But you cannot go running, screaming, blaming others for not accepting you when you yourself haven’t accepted you or even acknowledged you. They may look at you differently but who cares accept and acknowledge that you are different. And that you have been chosen to be different, to be the change, to bring freedom from this limited mindset and to bring awareness and way of being to this planet.
How many of you love animals? Watch nature and are nature lovers? Look at nature and every species in nature. They have the most beautiful colorful bodies one can ever imagine that God the male and female goddess have created. Because nothing can be created or manifested single handedly. A female is spiritual form of a soul and a male is a physical form of a soul and together creation happens. So if you tell me there is just one God yes in my awareness the god is male and female so yes one God. But if you tell me there is just one male God then I would have to say we should not have the moon? Only sun. Why do we have a moon and a sun, day and night? Sun represents the male and moon represents the female. If you think a God is a male and he created everything is because he is the manifestor but the creator is the goddess, the female. So no a male God cannot create. And so which God are you following and listening to? Certainly not the one who is part and consort of the divine feminine. The one. All of them are divinely created and manifested by the God. The God that is spiritual and physical as male and female.
It is for my duty to serve that I am born. We are here to serve by accepting, acknowledging who we are, walk by example and to enjoy being who we are on the inside. Not to wreck our world but to live and be the freedom of expression.
Originally posted on Teagan’s Books: Saturday, February 19, 2022 Photo by Tim Price You’ve reached The Armadillo Files. Stand by for a wild and crazy ride. When mentioning my weird imagination, more than a few people have asked me if I was doing drugs, specifically the psychedelic kind. After this chapter you might ask…
The Armadillo Files, Episode 2 — Featuring Mushrooms, and GP Cox too — ravenhawks’ magazine Magick for Mind Body and Soul
Here is all you need to Find Your Flow and Change the World. It’s a handbook, a visual guide, packed with tools you need for these times of social and environmental crisis. The tools are concepts and practices for wellbeing of self, communities and the whole planet. Most of the tools are my own ideas, […] […]
Find Your Flow and Change the World — Climate Museum UK — Life & Soul Magazine
Teenagers in northern Nigeria are aiming to “change the narrative” by making sci-fi films with their smartphones. The Kaduna-based teens, known as The Critics Company, learned how to create science fictions special effects and film on YouTube. The Kaduna-based film-makers made their first film, ‘Redemption’, in 2016, after saving up for a month to buy […]
The Critics Company: Teens in Nigeria making sci-fi movies on their phones “changing the narrative” — Life & Soul Magazine
Whether it’s climbing, hiking or skiing, more and more of us are buying into the benefits of outdoor living. To enjoy these new pastimes fully it helps to have the right outdoor clothing and gear. In Ireland we seem to be particularly bad at investing in good quality, outdoor clothing. I personally remember many a […] […]
Best Sustainable Ethical Outdoor Clothing & Gear for 2022 — living lightly in ireland — Life & Soul Magazine
Sea Women of Melanesia is teaching local women scuba diving and biology skills so they can monitor the health of coral reefs and create and restore marine protected areas that surround a group of island nations in the South Pacific. The Sea Women work in what’s known as the Coral Triangle, which covers some 5.7 […]
Sea Women of Melanesia: Female divers push to save endangered coral reefs in South Pacific — Life & Soul Magazine
ABOUT THE FILM
Celebrated performer, choreographer and artist Santee Smith interprets traditional Iroquois legends through contemporary dance in a cinematic restaging of her 2004 award-winning debut production KAHA:WI : THE CYCLE OF LIFE. In this touching documentary, a gorgeous and transformative performance is translated effortlessly to the screen, telling us of sacred portals between the Sky World, the Earth World and the Under World. KAHA:WI is a performance film that perpetuates Iroquoian cultural knowledge, traditional esthetics and expression in a contemporary form. KAHA:WI opens with an awakening of the spirit, or unseen life force, that manifests into human form. This establishes the spiritual presence that permeates throughout KAHA:WI. A thanksgiving prayer is given to all the living beings in the natural world. Iroquois people call themselves Onkwehon:we… Real People, meaning real physically. That is a distinction from spirit people. There is a concept of duality between this dimension and that dimension. We live in a world where things are real, but the universe has other dimensions. The unseen is beyond our comprehension, yet we need to communicate with the unseen, some people call that spirit. The human spirit possesses an umbilical connection to the spirit world.
KAHA:WI is a performance film that perpetuates Iroquoian cultural knowledge, traditional esthetics and expression in a contemporary form.
Source: https://www.cinemapolitica.org/film/kahawi-the-cycle-of-life/
Film Website: http://www.kahawi.tv/
Love is in the air, and not just for humans! Explore the courtship, grooming and everyday behaviors of some iconic New Jersey wildlife. Don’t forget to take notes, as these species know the secret to lasting relationships.
Crimson male cardinals are not only perpetually suited up in the color of passion, but they are also on to what really warms the heart of their beloved: food and gifts! Cardinals, which pair up for life, engage in mate feeding as part of their quest for (and maintenance of) a companion.
Dancing cheek to cheek is a bobcat-endorsed love strategy—they rub their faces on potential mates (as well as offspring) to signal “be mine!”
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There is a reason that horseshoe crabs have been around for 300 million years. They know the value of a moonlit stroll on the beach!
Studies show that hugging increases bonding for people—and maybe also for bears? Black bears hug each other as cubs when playing, and when adults as part of the courtship ritual.
Wisdom from woodcocks: a little effort goes a long way when it comes to impressing a mate. Males of this species are true winged wooers, staging an elaborate show of singing, aerial acrobatics and feather ruffling in pursuit of their love interest.
AMERICAN WOODCOCK Beginning in late March, males seek out woodland openings and clearings at dawn and dusk, when light levels are just right, to sing and display for females for about one hour.
RED FOX Courtship begins in the winter, where the foxes hunt together, play, and generally chase each other around. © Robert Peal
RED FOX PUPS The pups stay in the den until they are about 4 to 5 weeks of age. © Ray Lee
Red fox pairs are lifelong partners, and even when mating season is over they meet to socialize and share food. Because no matter how long you’ve been together, making time for a one-on-one dinner is always a good way to reconnect.
Good grooming habits are essential for making the right impression. River otters are fastidious about their coats, maintaining their natty appearance by rolling in snow, mud or vegetation.
Leave the kids at home for your romantic date. Take it from paired-for-life osprey parents who let chicks rest in the nest while they fly off to hunt—the noisy calls, fishy demands, and spontaneous wing-spreading of your cute, but ungainly, offspring does nothing to enhance the mood.
Valentine’s Day Tradition
In some countries, a young woman may receive a gift of clothing from a young man. If she keeps the gift, it means she will marry him.
Some people used to believe that if a woman saw a robin flying overhead on Valentine’s Day, it meant she would marry a sailor. If she saw a sparrow, she would marry a poor man and be very happy. If she saw a goldfinch, she would marry a millionaire.
A love seat is a wide chair. It was first made to seat one woman and her wide dress. Later, the love seat or courting seat had two sections, often in an S-shape. In this way, a couple could sit together — but not too closely!
Valentine Traditions
Hundreds of years ago in England, many children dressed up as adults on Valentine’s Day. They went singing from home to home. One verse they sang was:
Good morning to you, valentine;
Curl your locks as I do mine —
Two before and three behind.
Good morning to you, valentine.
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”Oscar Wilde
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