Give a watering can a sprinkle of blooms and butterflies using napkins with decoupage! This easy and fun technique works on any surface that you want to refresh and give a spring or blooming makeover. Happy Thursday! I hope you’re staying sane while sheltering at home. I’ve found that having some projects to keep your […] […]
DIY Watering Can Makeover with Decoupage and Napkins — Home is Where the Boat Is — ravenhawks’ magazine
New Mexico’s majestic Sangre de Cristo Mountains is now home to the first Native America-owned movie studio, Camel Rock Studios. With the support of New Mexico and the Santa Fe Film Office, Tesuque Pueblo’s Camel Rock Studios has reimagined a former Santa Fe-based casino into a 75,000-square-foot multi-use production facility and film studio, featuring standing sets, […]
Camel Rock Studios: Santa Fe becomes home to first film studio founded by Native American tribe — Life & Soul Magazine
Marie Antoinette’s more natural private garden at the Palace of Versailles is set to be restored to its former glory, as part a $2 million, multiyear restoration project. The garden, located just to the west of the Orangerie, was originally a labyrinth installed by Louis XIV in the mid-17th century, but by the time Marie […]
Marie Antoinette’s private garden at Versailles is being restored to its natural glory — Life & Soul Magazine
Brazilian company Nucleário has created a biodegradable seed planter – mimicing some of the features of a tropical rainforest’s own species to help saplings grow – offering a faster and more sustainable way to replant tropical rainforests. The biodegradable seed planter helps seedlings to grow by capturing, storing, and releasing water to the seedling as […]
Nucleário: Biodegradable seed planter that could help advance reforestation projects in Brazil and beyond — Life & Soul Magazine
Have you ever seen a bunch of plastic bottles and bags floating in your local river or lake? Were you ever tempted to grab a mask in order to prevent smog from getting into your lungs? Pollution today is all around us, some results of it we can see (trash, landfills, smog) and some we […]
Environmental Crisis: Cities Fighting Plastic and Air Pollution — ecogreenlove — Life & Soul Magazine
GROVE, an online platform that uses blockchain technology to fund the planting of 1 billion mangrove trees across Southeast Asia and India by 2025, is expected to launch in the coming months. The Singapore-based Global Mangrove Trust will launch GROVE, an app and website in the next six months, according to Thomson Reuters Foundation. Users […]
GROVE: Global Mangrove Trust plan to launch online platform to crowdsource donations for the planting of 1 billion mangrove trees by 2025 — Life & Soul Magazine
The word Beltane corresponds to the modern Irish Gaelic word Bealtaine, the name of the month of May, and to the Scottish Gaelic word Bealtuinn meaning May Day.
Other names For the Day and the celebrations are:
May 1: Rudemas/Roodmas, Rood Day (the Christian term for Rood Day), St. Walburga’s Day; Beltane, May Day, Cetsamhain (opposite Samhain), Cershamain, Fairy Day, Sacred Thorn Day, Old Beltane, Beltaine, Beltain, Baltane, Walpurgis Night, Floriala (Roman feast of flowers from April 29 to May 1), Walpurgisnacht (Germanic-feast of St. Walpurga), Thrimilce (Anglo-Saxon), Bloumaand (Old Dutch) This holiday like many of the sabbats start on the eve and is celebrated thru the following Day.
There is no consensus on how the name was derived at but it is agreed that this Sabbat honors fertility and creation.
This was also a time when many cultures light Balefires. In some places that is still an honored tradition.
Beltane is mentioned in some of the earliest Irish literature, and it is associated with important events in Irish mythology. It marked the beginning of summer and was when cattle were driven out to the summer pastures. Rituals were performed to protect the cattle, crops, and people, and to encourage growth.
Classic Roots, a Toronto-based music producer and performer, will be kicking off the environmental film festival EarthxFilm today with EarthxDance, a live-streamed DJ set highlighting the intersection of urban and indigenous cultures. The virtual performance, which starts at 6pm EST, will begin with a screening of the documentary short, Turning Tables, about Classic Roots’ music and […]
EarthxDance opens environmental film festival with live-streamed DJ set from Turning Tables star Classic Roots — Life & Soul Magazine
A small earthen village near the Atlas Mountains of Morocco is now home to a women’s community centre, designed and built by local women and a group …
Moroccan women collaborate with architecture students to design and build women’s community centre near Atlas Mountains from earth and stone
How you decorate your bedroom shapes the ambiance of your sleep space, and the energy of the room reflects in the quality of your slumber. So whether it’s cute, boho, shabby chic or art deco that you’re aiming for aesthetic-wise, think about what materials, light fixtures and scents help you unwind at the end of……
These Soothing Candles for Your Bedroom Are Like Aromatic Lullabies — StyleCaster — Wyndesong Collectibles
A cross-border conservation programme in Africa, which boasts an ecosystem spanning the size of France, has been awarded €16.9 million ($19.1 million) funding from the Dutch Postcode Lottery. The Kavango Zambezi nature reserve, known as KAZA, is a unique place which stretches out over five countries in Southern Africa, straddling the borders of Angola, Botswana, […]
Africa’s largest Transboundary Conservation Area awarded a $19.1 million boost to create a cross-border nature reserve — Life & Soul Magazine
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