Free your feet, free your mind. Feet on earth,head in the sky.

On the earth, grass, sand, the forces of the four elements of nature, air, sun, water,and earth come together. When we walk barefoot  the whole power of nature wake us up. Free your feet, free your mind.Lily

Explore life barefoot. Leave a natural imprint on earth.

Copyright 2011 by ©Lily Giraud

In the shadows grasp

Writing with the purple ink of the night,
the rain
washes the depths
of memory.
I trusted you my heart, no sword should have cut that bond.
In the shadows grasp ,  nothing remains as it was.
Lily

Copyright 2011 by ©Lily Giraud

Beyond ourselves

Only this wish, this desire of wanting to be, of wanting to show others exactly that which we are, is bound to take us beyond.. Lily

Copyright 2011 by ©Lily Giraud

The morning

Cotton white,
smooth
the morning falls,
shameless stalking my thoughts…
Lily

Copyright 2011 by ©Lily Giraud

Oxford. With the moon of Winter time

Wild horses,tea and scones,
bright nights of white snow,
pink sunsets, raindrops,
scent of mandarines,migrating gulls, mahogany colored chestnuts,
blazing fireplaces,dancing branches of willows,
wild rabbits footprints in the snow,
the moon gleam on the dark road,steam from the boiling kettle,
a voice within,
warm blood, fireplaces,
eyes that love,arms that hold,
all that I am, all that I will be,
a moment of rapture, feelings, shapes and sounds
Winter time.

“Copyright 2009 by ©Lily Giraud”

Sunset caught in a rose.

Seasons, flowers,rivers,oceans inspiring our heart , leading us gently through life.Lily

Copyright 2010 by ©Lily Giraud

We all want to be loved; we all need somebody to love.

It is love who keeps our life filled with meaning. Societies exist and maintain themselves thanks to the feeling of love. Love rise kindness and compassion. Violence and inequalities, depression, material attachments, talk about love’s absence.

Love is the most fascinating force in the world, it is what make all of us smile, it is  flame to the will and creativity. 

We all long to be loved, nurtured, held, and we seek it in somebody or something else but its self-love what give us all support we crave and what allow us to love others and be loved, to live with passion.

Copyright 2011 by ©Lily Giraud”

Peace Lily and The Right Balance-The Power of Flowers

Peace Lilies are evergreen herbaceous plants. Original from the Tropical America (Colombia and Venezuela) and SouthEast Asia , they were introduced in Europe in 1870s.

They produce a lushly dark green foliage with indented veins. A  single, sail-like spathe, wraps carefully around the flowers giving that unique feeling of peace. Some associate the flower with the white flag of surrender, and probably that’s how the colloquial name was born.

 In a study made by the NASA and the Associated Landscape Contractors of America , The Peace Lilies are celebrated as effective removers of Air pollutants. They classify Number 10 for their powerful contribution to create oxygen and filter toxins such as benzene, trichloroethylene and formaldehyde. Toxics found in many cleaning products as well as paints and building material.

Care for your Peace Lily, watering it approximately once per week, but do not leave the soil to dry, keep it moist. The plant loves warmth and constant moisture, if you place it under the bathroom’s window, it will grow beautifully. Every few days, carefully wipe-down its leaves. Use a clean, damp cloth. This will allow the Lily to absorb more water and keep lushly green leaves.

Keeping a Peace-Lily on your desk will help you to be happier just with looking at it, but also more productive because it will generate more oxygen which makes a healthier working environment.

Keep Peace Lilies out of the reach of small children or animals.Chewing its flowers or leaves can be from mild to highly toxic.

Learn about flowers, learn to love nature. Make your house and office healthier place to breathe with a flower, bring more peace to your life with a Peace Lily.

Copyright 2011 by ©Lily Giraud

Prayer

My church is the outdoors, my church is the ocean, my church is the forest..the sky..my actions are my prayer. Lily

Copyright 2011 by ©Lily Giraud

Autumn, the season to discover Andromeda the M31 Galaxy chained to a wing of Pegasus..

When was the last time you went stargazing?

What about starting tonight?

With watching at the night sky and identifying the constellations, You will have a close encounter with your sense of wonder. You will be reconnecting with your spirituality.

Identifying patterns in the sky, understanding the moon phases, will help you to see yourself as a part of a bigger picture. Quoting Carl Sagan” “Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality”.

If you like me , enjoyed reading Greek Mythology, by sure you would remember Pegasus the winged horse and you would have then flow with him to defeat the monster (the Chimera), obeyed Zeus to bring lighting and thunder from Olympus and would then have been there at the moment his rider fell back and Zeus transformed it in the Constellation Pegasus, those 4 bright stars you can see tonight above the head of Jupiter.

Tonight look at the sky. Towards the south find the brightest point, this is Jupiter.

The brightest of those stars is part of the Constellation of Andromeda. “The woman in chains”. Andromeda was chained by Poseidon,- the God of the sea-, to a sea-cliff to be devored by a monster of the ocean. She was resqued by Perseus and got married with him, respecting a promise made to her parents. The goddess Athena placed her among the stars as a reward for keeping that promise.

In the sky, the Andromeda constellation is chained to Pegasus instead of to a rock.For Carl Jung, Pegasus is the symbol ofthe spiritual energy necessary to reach the Gods on Mount Olympus, in fact to reach any God we need to wear our wings and fly!

Andromeda Galaxy-Photo Courtesy of Nasa

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the nearest of the Milky way.It was born from the collission of two galaxies,proving the infinite possibilities that can come from Chaos!.

Andromeda was called “little cloud” in 905 by a Persian Astronomer. It is in fact visible to our human eyes , without a telescope, as a “little cloud”.

Stare at that “little cloud” and go beyond what you see, feel the energy of 300 billion of stars endlessly travelling at the speed of light to reach us. What your eyes are looking it lies 2.5 millions of years away.. Feel the universe within you, we are made of stars-dust!.

Do not let go Autumn without discovering Andromeda, one of the spectacular free gifts the Universe offer us.

Lily

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.Carl Sagan