I Should Make A Low-effort Cookbook

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. (via wordsnquotes)

Take Care: Mothers, Daughters, and Inheriting Self-Hatred, Ella Wilson

Do you have any healing spells or peace spells i can use for crystals and charms?

I use clear Quartz for healing illnesses. I rinse my quartz in distilled water, dry it off and then go outside in the sun with it. I hold it in my hands and let the sun beam down on it. After about 5-10 minutes I place the crystal on the area that is affecting me for as long as I feel I need. My grandmother used to tell me to put it under my pillow but I find that after extended periods of time exposed to quartz I get a huge migraine.

To be honest, I would need to know what kind of healing you need to be able to answer this question properly, but quartz is an all round healer.

For emotional issues I would recommend wearing a piece of Rose Quartz. This will help balance the heart chakra. It gives you a sense of inner peace.

How to program a crystal

Step One - Clear your crystal. I like to clear my crystals with salt, but if you haven’t got the time to do that simply rinsing them under the cold water tap will do the same job.

Step Two - Hold the crystal in the hand that you write with. This is usually called your dominant hand.Then place your other hand over the top. Say out loud your intentions for this crystal. For example “This crystals will be used to heal” 

Step Three - Then repeat the word “Healing” until you feel the healing energy has taken hold of your crystal.

Your crystals will eventually feel different. Trust your intuition when doing this. You will know when your crystal is fully charged and programmed.

There are many different ways to program crystals. This is the way that I personally prefer.

I hope this helps

Brightest Blessing

Rachael-Elizabeth

There is easy low hanging fruit here, especially about the US and salty tea. And I'm so SO tempted.

But also I'm super in to tea and I'm bored.

The perfect cup of tea is how you want to drink it, and if you do not LIKE tea then drinking it a different way, or a different kind of tea, vastly changes it.

A pinch of salt makes things less bitter, this trick also works with coffee. But other things that affect taste are tempriture, length of time it brews, where the tea was grown, the climate, the soil, and how big the leaves are. Some of the cheapest tea has little more than dust in the tea bag while more expensive teas you will notice have more structure to the leaves.

Tea brewed in colder tempeitures needs longer and creates a different taste. It may require more tea to get the specific flavour you want, and generally it is less bitter for it. Similar thing to spices where if you cook them, use them hot, toast them first, etc, you get a different set of flavours to using them cold.

Like wine, tea can have lots of flavour profiles and colours. Assam for example is very dark, malty, and strong, it can get quite bitter. Ceylon is much lighter. Darjeeling is good with lemon, but Assam is better with milk, in my humble opinion. Lapsang Sushong is very smokey. Earl Grey

Most people will drink a mix. English breakfast is usually a mix of Assam, Ceylon, and Kenyan. Earl Grey is flavoured with bergamot.

White, green, and black tea all come from the same plant, just different parts of it, treated differently. Black tea can take a higher tempriture, but boiling water on green and white tea will scorch the leaves and make it very bitter. Agitating the tea can also have this effect as it releases more tannin.

As a general rule there is a tea for everyone, and a way to drink it that you will enjoy, whether that's hot, cold, mixing it with spices, flavourings, fruit, milk, sugar, lemon, and yes, even a pinch of salt.

I would not, however, recommend tea that has been in the Boston harbour.

CHOCOLATE CHIP MASCARPONE COOKIES WITH RICOTTA AND ALMONDS

Recipe: http://peasandpeonies.com/2016/01/chocolate-chip-mascarpone-cookies-with-almonds/

Get it..

honey production does hurt the bees. the honey stolen is replaced with a toxic synthetic sugar substance which isn't healthy for them. honey isn't for humans to steal, please educate yourself.

Arright, sit down, you’re about to get some knowledge dropped on you by somebody with beekeepers and meadmakers in the family.

The “toxic synthetic sugar substance” you’re referring to? Is sugar water. Literally SUGAR and WATER. There’s nothing synthetic about it. And the bees only rarely need a LITTLE bit of sugar water to help them get through, because if they’re provided with enough nectar, bees will make a shit-ton of honey. Most hives generate more honey than they can ever use.

And when a hive starts getting too full, the bees may swarm and try to go find a new place to live. Do you know what happens to a more than three-quarters of swarms that leave their hive? THEY DIE. Yup. Either they can’t find a new hive, or they run into predators, or they wind up landing somewhere that humans don’t want them and then exterminators get called.

So removing a few frames from the hive, taking out the wax and the honey, and replacing them for the bees to fill with new comb and honey and larvae is actually GOOD for the hive. The bees stay busy, they’ve got frames to fill, the queen doesn’t feel the need to go anywhere, and their human buddies can help keep them safe from natural predators and pesticides.

The mutually-beneficial relationship between humans and bees has existed for literally thousands of years. People keep hives, bees pollinate crops and make honey, people harvest the honey, the bees get extra protection and can happily buzz away keeping the plants healthy and making more sweet sugary goo.

Honeybees are an endangered species. If they die, not only does your vegan diet become completely impossible, but the entire planet is royally fucked.

And do you know who’s doing more than anybody else to keep them alive and make sure we don’t all starve?

BEEKEEPERS. And they treat those bees like their own damn children. They’re not going to feed them toxins or “steal” all their food, they want the bees to be happy and healthy and THRIVING.

Being vegan is absolutely fine, but don’t go trying to tell other people how to eat and don’t sound off on shit until YOU educate YOURSELF. Try talking to an actual beekeeper sometime. Or at the very least, read an article by a beekeeper instead of relying on someone else’s scare tactics.

She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. The same elements that are inside the rest of us, but I can’t help thinking she’s more than that and she’s got other elements going on that no one’s ever heard of, ones that make her stand apart from everybody else.

Jennifer Nevin, All the Bright Places (via theliteraryjournals)

I miss Band...

When your whole squad backs you up in a fight but you music af.

Genius cat