by Martha Brettschneider | Jan 28, 2015 | Feng Shui/Clutter Clearing, Life Lessons, Meditation, Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness, Motivation, Photography
Have you ever heard of a damselfly? Don’t worry if you haven’t. The damselfly doesn’t get a lot of press. Even if you’ve heard the word, you might have thought it was simply a female version of a dragonfly. I was guilty of that myself. This...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jun 10, 2014 | Breast Cancer, Fitness, Life Lessons, Meditation, Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness, Most Popular Posts, Motivation
Five years ago today, on June 10, 2009, I lay on an operating table with my arms immobilized in Velcro crucifix constraints forming perfect 90 degree angles from my torso. Salty tears slid down my temples into my hair, with no way for me to wipe them away. Realizing...
by Martha Brettschneider | May 9, 2014 | Life Lessons, Meditation, Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness, Photography
Please excuse my absence. I’ve been trying to channel a chickadee for the past several weeks. Did you know that chickadees have retinas lined with receptors that are twice as dense as those in human retinas? I learned that in David George Haskell’s The...
by Martha Brettschneider | Apr 6, 2014 | Life Lessons, Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness, Most Popular Posts, Motivation
First, I wanted to apologize to my email subscribers for my last post’s (A Few of My Favorite Things) crazy formatting. The piece was fine on the website, but I didn’t size the photos correctly for the emailed version, which mucked the whole thing up....
by Martha Brettschneider | Jan 5, 2014 | Life Lessons, Meditation, Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness, Motivation
Are you a joiner type of person? Or do you prefer to work solo? Do you find safety in numbers, or do you feel alone in a crowd? I’ve always tended to be in the latter category. Although I’m considered by others to be “outgoing,” I’m...
by Martha Brettschneider | Oct 30, 2013 | Feng Shui/Clutter Clearing, Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness, Most Popular Posts
The events I’m about to recount happened several months ago. Though I had expected to write about them much sooner, I realize now that Halloween week is the perfect time to share my ghost story with you. I’ve already gone public with my garden’s...
