Navigating Soul Food
The Soul Food Cafe is a portal for artists and writers alike. It is a safe haven where creativity flourishes. Soul Food Cafe aims to promote creative pursuits as a daily practice. The static, Web 1.0 part of this site is quite literally overflowing with healthy and tasty morsels for every artist. Heather Blakey, who built the Soul Food Cafe from scratch is a now a certified Barista Basics Barista but, world champion, Stephen Morrissey is unlikely to be losing any sleep as we speak.
Soul Food is like a Confest Festival. When you really get in to the forums that form Lemuria and the Wild Garden you will find that there are many 'tents' set up where people will welcome you. All gardens are open and places like the Gypsy Camp, the Lemurian Abbey, the Hermitage, the Murmuring Woods, the Tavern and so on are operated by real people who will welcome you if you take the time to become involved.
To step beyond this foyer it is really only a matter of proving that you are, like the Velveteen Bunny, REAL.
It is a challenge to navigate the labyrinthine corridors of the Soul Food Cafe. Heather Blakey, who imagined and created Soul Food is always surprised by the number of folk who want to figure out this complex cyber cafe. She has created many directories to assist those who want to reach the inner sanctum, meet le Enchanteur and work alongside the Ravens.
This lens provides guidance for those wanting to join the Soul Food Cafe and celebrates the work of the many people who have found respite and their unique voice while wandering these corridors.
Soul Food is like a Confest Festival. When you really get in to the forums that form Lemuria and the Wild Garden you will find that there are many 'tents' set up where people will welcome you. All gardens are open and places like the Gypsy Camp, the Lemurian Abbey, the Hermitage, the Murmuring Woods, the Tavern and so on are operated by real people who will welcome you if you take the time to become involved.
To step beyond this foyer it is really only a matter of proving that you are, like the Velveteen Bunny, REAL.
It is a challenge to navigate the labyrinthine corridors of the Soul Food Cafe. Heather Blakey, who imagined and created Soul Food is always surprised by the number of folk who want to figure out this complex cyber cafe. She has created many directories to assist those who want to reach the inner sanctum, meet le Enchanteur and work alongside the Ravens.
This lens provides guidance for those wanting to join the Soul Food Cafe and celebrates the work of the many people who have found respite and their unique voice while wandering these corridors.
Four Simple Steps to Join Soul Food
engage and benefit from the Soul Food Community
If you are compelled to join Soul Food and benefit from the social networking, community and opportunity to publish in a environment where readership is guaranteed there are steps that you need to take. These steps are outlined here.
- Soul Food Cafe at Yahoo
- The Soul Food Cafe has a group at Yahoo. The first step is to join this group and become a member of the site. Once you have joined this and proven that you are real you will be offered a thread which, if followed, will lead you in to the centre of the site.
- Join Word Press
- In order to participate at Soul Food you need an account with Word Press. You need to have established a blog and know how to write a post.
Sign up with WordPress and gain a WordPress Driver's license.
Once you have done this, email the address you used to create your account to, heatherblakey at fastmail dot fm, and she will add you to the Pythian Games, the primary collaborative blog. Once you establish yourself you will be given the opportunity to join other blogs on an as needed basis - Join Squidoo
- The Soul Food Cafe, as housed at dailywriting.net and Word Press is free of all advertising. Heather Blakey makes no apologies for the advertising that is on the Squidoo lenses she now uses to work with community members. Squidoo is helping to pay the cost of running this site. It will be a very long time before the site pays its way, let alone make a profit.
Members of Soul Food are asked to support the running cost of Soul Food by joining Squidoo and engaging on the lenses by voting, making them favourites, commenting and engaging in polls. - Join Twitter
- Create an account with Twitter and follow @heatherblakey and other community members. Check out Fifty Ways to Use Twitter.
Annual Advent Calendars at Soul Food
December at Soul Food is a time of Dionysian celebration. Take the time to visit old Advent Calendars and to participate in the 2008 Calendar.-
Soul Food Cafe - Advent Calendars
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There is a tradition at the Soul Food Cafe. Each December, for the past five years, Heather Blakey has launched an Advent Calendar on the first day of December. Advent calendars have long helped build excitement and anticipation on the countdown to C...
All About Writing
SARK's newest book features the work of Heather Blakey at Soul Food
Juicy Pens, Thirsty Paper: Gifting the World with Your Words and Stories, and Creating the Time and Energy to Actually Do It
Amazon Price: $12.89 (as of 07/06/2009)
"SARK is a sparkler who jump-starts the creative process. Her ideas are user-friendly, innovative, and pragmatic." -Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way
Write and share what's in your heart! Let SARK show you how. Juicy Pens, Thirsty Paper is your non-judgmental witness, resoundingly supportive friend, and practical guide to the craft of writing and storytelling. For anyone who knows that a writer lives within them but doesn't know how or where to start; for writers who need new ways to work past their blocks and be reinspired; for anyone who loves SARK's wise words and art, Juicy Pens, Thirsty Paper will help start the ink flowing and keep it going.
Soul Food Feature
SARK's new book features, amongst other things, the work of Heather Blakey at the Soul Food Cafe. If you are a fan of Soul Food or just want to learn more about writing, make sure to pre order a copy of your book today
Spread the Comfort Rug
When you become a Comfort Rugging it means that you have begun to make it a daily practice to think up small acts of thoughtfulness which will make a difference to the lives of others. You weave these in to a rug and then practice rugging by scattering your rug, made up of many little acts of thoughtfulness, over the people you care about. A comfort rugger will, for example, show up with a casserole, think to ring when you are not well, take you out on a surprise mystery treat. Experienced comfort ruggers gain joy from giving more than receiving and, in so doing, lead the way to rebuild shattered community spirit.
This Comfort Rugging lens is a Soul Food Cafe, Temple of Solace project. Individuals are encouraged to work through some of the suggestions provided here and to take the time to add a suggestion to the guest book.
This Comfort Rugging lens is a Soul Food Cafe, Temple of Solace project. Individuals are encouraged to work through some of the suggestions provided here and to take the time to add a suggestion to the guest book.
Travel With Priscilla
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Travels with Priscilla
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Priscilla set out on the first world, Soul Food Tour to meet and work with members of the Soul Food Community. But just as Captain Cook left England to do more than monitor the Transit of Venus, Priscilla left Australian shores with a secret mission....
The Ravens - A Virtual Salon
The Raven is the spirit bird of Heather Blakey and the Soul Food Cafe. Adventurers, who who have found their way in to the centre of this quirky cafe, invariably come to understand the influence of this bird who carries their messages through cyber space.Soul Food has had a long history of encouraging artists and writers to share their work and help build the site. The Patrons Page and the Artist's Loft are just two old directories that provide links to the work of those who have walked the corridors of Soul Food. The Pizza Banquet is another place to meet some of the people who have partaken of Soul Food's very special food for the soul.
Many long standing members of Soul Food, members who have travelled within Lemuria and actively participated on Soul Food blogs, become Ravens, flock together and live in the The Rookery This lens celebrates these individuals who have made Soul Food and the Rookery, home. It is these people who have worked to create a very effective, virtual art and writing group.
To be accepted at Soul Food all you need is an authentic voice and the courage to use it.
A Noisy Rookery
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Bird of a Feather, They Flock Together
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The Soul Food Cafe, founded and built by Heather Blakey, is an international. intergenerational group of writers and artists whose global mission is to promote writing and art-making as a daily practice through the use of interactive web-based techno...
The Tholos and Pythia
providing safe, supported, private forums
Over a million people come through Soul Food each year. Not as many take the plunge and sign up and of those who sign up only a handful go on to publish in a public forum.
Judith Duerk, author of the Circle of Stones poses the question "How might your life have been different if there had been a place for you? A place to go... a place of women, to help you learn the ways of women... a place where you were nurtured from an ancient flow sustaining you and steadying you as you sought to become yourself. A place of women to help you find and trust the ancient flow already within yourself...waiting to be released."
For many Soul Food has been this place. However, the public eye is daunting for many more. Now Soul Food is offering small lodges where artists can find a place to go, a place to learn the ways of the artist, a place where you are nurtured from an ancient flow, under the guidance of an artistic midwife who you can trust, who will help you,within relative privacy, find yourself and find the art that is to be released to the world.
One of the small Soul Food groups may be the place for you. There is a once off fee of $100. The idea as that artists will eventually leave their lodge to go forth and publish. In a recent note from Trendle Elwood, who worked on the site for a number of years, Trendle wrote "Heather your Soul Food Café fed me my first meals as a writer. How can I explain it? It is as if I was hungry to share what was in me but I didn't know if it would be accepted, Soul Food accepted, Soul Food applauded. Soul Food inspired me to reach for it. Soul Food convinced me that my good points could compete with my weak points and win. Now I have a column in a local newspaper, The Towne Crier, titled From These Hills and I have had short stories published in Bee Culture, GreenPrints, The Rural Country Living and Guideposts. Watch out though because I am not done yet. I am not sure if this ever would have happened if it had not been for the lovely group of friends that I found here at Soul Food Café and the magic of Heather Blakey.
How might your artistic life be different? Members of the first Lodge, which is now closed, have already noticed a difference. So maybe this is the setting you need to work in.
Judith Duerk, author of the Circle of Stones poses the question "How might your life have been different if there had been a place for you? A place to go... a place of women, to help you learn the ways of women... a place where you were nurtured from an ancient flow sustaining you and steadying you as you sought to become yourself. A place of women to help you find and trust the ancient flow already within yourself...waiting to be released."
For many Soul Food has been this place. However, the public eye is daunting for many more. Now Soul Food is offering small lodges where artists can find a place to go, a place to learn the ways of the artist, a place where you are nurtured from an ancient flow, under the guidance of an artistic midwife who you can trust, who will help you,within relative privacy, find yourself and find the art that is to be released to the world.
One of the small Soul Food groups may be the place for you. There is a once off fee of $100. The idea as that artists will eventually leave their lodge to go forth and publish. In a recent note from Trendle Elwood, who worked on the site for a number of years, Trendle wrote "Heather your Soul Food Café fed me my first meals as a writer. How can I explain it? It is as if I was hungry to share what was in me but I didn't know if it would be accepted, Soul Food accepted, Soul Food applauded. Soul Food inspired me to reach for it. Soul Food convinced me that my good points could compete with my weak points and win. Now I have a column in a local newspaper, The Towne Crier, titled From These Hills and I have had short stories published in Bee Culture, GreenPrints, The Rural Country Living and Guideposts. Watch out though because I am not done yet. I am not sure if this ever would have happened if it had not been for the lovely group of friends that I found here at Soul Food Café and the magic of Heather Blakey.
How might your artistic life be different? Members of the first Lodge, which is now closed, have already noticed a difference. So maybe this is the setting you need to work in.
Creative Midwifery
the work of Heather Blakey
Heather Blakey is the webmaster who conceived and manages the Soul Food Cafe, uniting artists, writers and educators online. She is a creative midwife who is passionate about assisting in the creative process. She specializes in building niche communities.
- Heather Blakey
- Heather Blakey is the webmaster of the Soul Food Cafe. Heather, who is passionate about education, is at the forefront of Education in Victoria, delivering the concept of team blogging to the educational sector. Heather says that teaching is her life and believes that it is essential to keep abreast of current communication trends within the digital landscape. Heather is now using programs like Blogger, WordPress and Squidoo to provide online mentoring, build niche communities and provide support for people from all walks of life.
- A Myth To Live By
- Jung knew it! Joseph Campbell promoted it! Heather Blakey promotes it every day. Everyone needs a myth to live by. Lemuria is the myth that colours Heather Blakey's life.
- Rose and Swan Theatre
- Heather Blakey is an artistic midwife who works with artists and writers to assist in the delivery of their artistic hopes and dreams and to ensure that their creative projects are nourished and presented to a wide range of audiences. This theatre is the place she brings them, after a torchlight procession through the streets of the Lemurian City of Ladies, to present their first fruits to Demeter.
- Everyone Needs A Wishlist
- Heather Blakey sits dreaming under the stars by her billabong. She dreams of many things and has a rather long wish list of things to do before she walks the sacred way to return and be with her beloved Darryl and Muses. This is simply her wish list at Amazon.
The Pythian Games
the place to establish yourself at Soul Food
The Pythian Games is the place to meet and mingle with community members at Soul Food. It is the blog that new members join. There are no charges to engage and establish yourself. Once established many members venture in to Lemuria and work with le Enchanteur, the mysterious figurehead of this magical realm.
- Pythian Games
- The Pythian Games took place at Delphi every four years. The festival not only involved athletic contests but included musical competitions and drama.
Begin your week by participating in the Pythian Games. The games are a Soul Food Cafe weekly challenge that help you clock up the writing miles. The Pythian Games site provides space for participants to undertake a challenge and, in so doing, complete their training for the games. - Pythian Games Challenges
- This Pythian Games lens is filled with challenges to help massage participants creativity. There is no obligation to undertake any of these. At the Pythian Games you can do your own thing as long as you bear in mind that the site attracts an audience within the age group of five to ninety five.
Lemuria?
is a safe sanctuary housed within Soul Food
A constellation of blogs that form the world of Lemuria, as visioned by le Enchanteur and the Soul Food Ravens. To engage in these collaborative blogs a member now needs to have established themselves at the Pythian Games.
- Lemuria
- The Lemurian writing sanctuary was born after Heather Blakey located, at the Queensland University, the only copy of her great grandfather's book. The University Librarian permitted her to make a copy of it and you will find Watson's fascinating account of his journey through the Mountain Tops of Lemuria.
- Lemuria Calling
- Lemuria is a spirit who calls artists and writers to work with her.
- Hitch Hiker's Guide to Lemuria
- "I looked forward to going to Europe all my life - then at 37 I got the opportunity to visit friends in Amsterdam. I prepared as best I could, saving money, reading travel guides, got a Dutch-English handbook, packed, brought gifts from America, got on the long plane ride, and finally, we touched down at Schipol Airport half an hour early. There was a mix-up about what gate my friends were to meet me at - so there I was, in a foreign country, not knowing the language, with an atrocious thick Yankee accent, before the days of cell phones, alone, and terrified. I didn't know what to do next. The Dutch strangers were very kind and tried to help, but it was a panicky hour before I found my friends at the right gate, and I could calm down and begin my adventures."
New traveller, Kerry Vincent, says that this is how she felt as she stepped in to the whirl wind world of le Enchanteur and Lemuria. This lens is here to provide a kind of Lonely Planet Guide to Lemuria. Hopefully it will ease some of the initial panic. - Lonely Planet Guide to Lemuria
- Lemuria was purported to be the southern continent that sunk beneath the seas when a cataclysmic event happened millions of years ago. But Lemuria never remained submerged. It has risen again and today you can work with Heather Blakey, the webmaster of the Soul Food Cafe and help populate the remnants of this ancient land. You can work collaboratively within a magical, technological garden and live in a vibrant, artistic community.
- le Enchanteur
- L'Enchanteur is Heather Blakey's alter ego and just between you and me she sometimes represents herself as the Amazon Queen and Baba Yaga. L'Enchanteur is a dazzling shape shifter who led a party of travellers through mystical doorways into the world of Lemuria.
- Original Lemuria
- Artists and writers draw doorways and come in to Lemuria. This was the original world that they found.
Lemurian Gathering Places
The Lemurian Gathering Places are places (collaborative blogs) where many Lemurians congregate. Soul Food is, quite literally, running and online writing course where regulars bounce off one another and warmly greet newcomers to engage alongside them.
- Rainbow Beach and Beyond
- Pilgrims flock to the sun drenched Rainbow Beach, meet Enchanteur and travel out in to the wilds of Lemuria.
- Pythian Games
- Newcomers to Lemuria establish themselves at the Pythian Games and while engaging, hear of the City of Ladies and the world beyond the walls of this ancient Lemurian City.
- City of Ladies
- The City of Ladies has become a place where travellers arrive. Initially they discover all that the city has to offer and then, invariably, trek out beyond the city walls.
- Taverna di Muse
- Lori Gloyd presides over the Taverna di Muse, a City of Ladies establishment that has seen many travellers pass through its doors.
- Riversleigh Manor
- When you step through the magic portal and enter Lemuria you will see Riversleigh Manor in the distance.
Riversleigh Manor was, for some time, the central hub of the Lemurian colony, a new world being populated by artists and writers from all around the globe. - Soul Art
- Join the Soul Art Room and mix and mingle with like minded artists.
- Rose and Swan Theatre
- The Rose and Swan Theatre is the place where community members who work with le Enchanteur (aka Heather Blakey)in the Tholos and Pythia (two small fee paying groups) come to present their First Fruits and ongoing work.
Lemurian Characters
Lemuria is filled with fascinating characters
Image by Lori Gloyd
Travellers have found that Lemuria is populated and that there are fascinating people living within the realm. The Abbess who presides over the Abbey, the Lemurian Hermit, Ebony Wilder, the housekeeper at Riversleigh, Sibyl Riversleigh and le Enchanteur are just some of the folk that come to greet people who slip through the portal in to this magical realm.
- le Enchanteur
- le Enchanteur is a mysterious figure who periodically takes travellers on a Grand Tour of Lemuria. These tours are talked about long after they have been completed.
- The Abbess
- The Abbess has presided over the Lemurian Abbey for many years. It is a quiet, tranquil sanctuary away from the graven images and false icons of modern living.
- Lady Sibyl Riversleigh
- Lady Sibyl Riversleigh provides an artistic retreat for artists and writers at Riversleigh Manor, an old estate in a valley beyond the City of Ladies.
- Ebony Wilder
- This mild mannered house keeper is a Jekyll and Hyde. Ebony is none other than Captain Wilder, the fearsome pirate who sailed the Calabar through the seven seas of Lemuria.
Lemurian City of Ladies
offering Creative Residencies for special projects
Christine de Pizan set out to disprove masculine myths and within the context of her time her thought was revolutionary. In her classic 'The Book of the City of Ladies' Pizan explains how she had been commissioned to build the City of Ladies. The Lemurian City of Ladiesis a reincarnation of the lost City of Ladies as envisioned by de Pizan.
The City of Ladies is the capital of Lemuria and is the city that residents retreat to during the long Lemurian summers. The waters are said to have creative properties that ensure that, the individual who drinks from them, sings with their true,distinct voice.
Being by the sea the city enjoys a temperate climate and now it is populated by an eclectic bunch of writers and artists who maintain residences here.
Take the opportunity to undertake a special project within this ancient city. Imogen Crest is working on the Women's Loom. If you have an original proposal make contact with Heather Blakey and take up a residency.
Lemurian City of Ladies Walking Tour
Enchanteur is currently leading a walking tour through the ancient quarter of the Lemurian City of Ladies. Highlights include Dame Washalot's Bath House and the Catacombs.
- Walking Tour
- The Walking Tour is restricted to Ravens but everyone can see where Enchanteur takes her crew if they visit the City of Ladies.
Residencies in the City of Ladies
- Imogen's Grand Tour
- Ladies, residents of the Lemurian City of Ladies, may partake of the waters when they undertake their Grand Tour of Lemuria.
- Billabong Dreaming
- Heather Blakey sits by a Billabong and chronicles, amongst other things, the work and life of her maternal ancestors.
- Creative Fire
- We do not know how, why or even when life began. We do not know how, why or when human life began, or how it evolved from its earliest ancestors to the forms we wear today. We guess at reasons for brown, blue, round and almond eyes - flat, straight or large noses - different hair colours, mouth and lip shapes, ears, languages.
But one thing seems clear. The same creative fire that infused a dead planet with life burns in us. From the earliest times, the desire to create has been a driving force. - Traveller Rose
- Traveller Rose is Gail Kavanagh, a writer living in Queensland, Australia. Born a traveller in Cobh, Ireland, in 1946, Gail is writing this blog so that her memories of a world long vanished, so the memories don't vanish along with it.
- Women's Loom
- Women's Loom came from creative exploration of women's work at Soul Food Cafe's City of Ladies, in tribute to the medieval genius of Christine de Pizan.
Lemurian City of Ladies Exhibitions
exhibitions of the work of Soul Food Community members
- Women's Loom
- Women's Loom came from creative exploration of women's work at Soul Food Cafe's City of Ladies, in tribute to the medieval genius of Christine de Pizan.
Palliating With Art
In 1996 Heather Blakey began running 'Writing for Well-Being courses. Her work with writing for well-being and endeavours to nourish the self esteem of her students led to the development of Soul Food.With the diagnosis of her husband's cancer in 2000 this work intensified and when he relapsed in 2003 she took up drawing as a means to express the inexpressible. Darryl Blakey died on January 2007. Tributes poured in to the Temple of Solace which continues to be a safe haven for thousands of visitors.
As she walks on, alone, Heather is committed to providing a haven, an artistic retreat for others who speak the language she has come to know.
Healing Places at Soul Food
- Temple of Solace
- The Temple of Solace is a Tower of Babel where all speak the same language.
- Releasing Pain Through Visual Arts
- Art is far more effective at communicating the pain experience than words ever could be. The pain experience goes beyond the actual occurrence of physical pain and encompasses the entirety of one's life. The pain experience can be both negative and positive.I am going to take all the broken bits, carefully examine them and work with her to see if we can make me whole again. Art has helped me to do this.
- Poetry Comes Searching
- In Il Postino, Neruda introduces Mario to his world of poetry. He teaches him how to feel it and how to love it, and Mario, who is a brilliant student, goes even further: first he learns how to use poetry and then he attempts to write his own poems.
- Warming the Stone Artist
- The Soul Food Cafe promotes the art of writing and the creative arts as a therapeutic tool. Within the non judgemental and supportive environment of Soul Food individual well-being and creativity flourish
- Lemurian Pilgrimage
- When you slip through the portal and enter the world of Lemuria you enter a world of enchantment and find your authentic voice. There is nothing quite as healing as doing this and reinventing oneself.
- Make Descansos
- Follow the lead of Heather Blakey and make Descansos.
Wild Technological Garden
Soul Food is the home to a Wild Technological Garden. The Wild Garden is a garden that grows projects, like The Magic Garden Project, that have been designed to show educators and their students how good curriculum can be delivered and the outcomes published, using new, Web 2.0 technology such as blogs, writeboard, photo board and many other exciting applications.The Web 3.0 Community Telegraph is a blog which facilitates communication and provides a community for those who are passionate about education. It is comprised of educators who are committed to using Web 2.0 tools, in Education, to engage students.
Wild, Wired, Technological Gardens
- Baba Yaga's Garden
- Baba Yaga's garden is an eclectic garden where Heather Blakey sings over the bones.
- Black Thumb
- I tend to think a lot of my creative ideas are rubbish, and the result is that I don't do anything more with them. But I've decided to stop looking at them like rubbish and start looking at them as compost.
- eJourney's With Technokids
- Anne Mirtschin, is a teacher in a small P-12 rural school in the Western District of country Victoria, in south eastern Australian. She teaches Information Technology to Grades 4 - 12 and accounting. Web 2.0 has become a passion for her and the journey that can be seen here is quite remarkable. Anne's is a true, wild, wired garden.
- Healing Haven
- Living in the Arkansas Ozarks in Northwest Arkansas, Thalia enjoys the healing richness of the beautiful rolling hills and mountains, lakes and rivers, four seasons and people. The Healing Haven is growing within the Wild Gardens of Lemuria.
- Hortus Litterarum
- The young gardener's illustrated alphabet of literary delights
- Hortus Mirabilis
- Gardening for the soul.
- Imogen's Garden
- "Imogen Crest" is the resident nature hermit who lives in magical Lemuria, which is the dreamchild of Heather Blakey who runs Soul Food Cafe. Monika Roleff was inspired by Heather's creativity to explore themes of nature and solitude, and then came across Imogen the ancient scribe in her daily life in Lemuria, fascinated by her as a "Muse".
- Mrs Parson's House
- A collection of strange tales, gathered mainly at Halloween.
- Our Own Backyard
- Our school, Hawkesdale P12 College is a small prep to year 12 school in rural community in country Western Victoria. The township is small but active and set amongst beautiful manna gums and ti tree swamps. Our school backyard is huge and we all have backyards of differing natures but they are ours, are special to us and provide our safety zones.
- Photographic Botanicus
- A botanical feast for the eyes.
- Return to the Garden
- A quiet sanctuary within which to meditate and heal.
- Sustainability City
- The intention of this weblog is to provide information on urban sustainability, how it is possible, and how it is working every day, often without any fanfare or fuss. Nature just does the work, and the living things of the plant kingdom thrive to their natural pace of evolution with the seasons. It's easy in busy lifestyles to forget that Nature endures, that all life has its place, even in heavily populated urban environments. Possibly these are the places that need nature the most?
- Temporary Pasture
- Winnie Rose Reyes is a vegetarian, chromophyliac, visual artist, teacher, friend, cook, lover of movies, chocolate, coffee, books, cake and shoes who is committed to being happy and living life to the full, even if it kills her!
- Seeds Garden
- A love of gardens and gardening inspire magical moments.
- Textile Travels
- Djanne is a textile artist who has travelled widely and grown a garden in the process.
Have Your Say
make sure to speak up if you are confused
Take the time to leave a message and a raven will carry it off to Heather Blakey who will try to help you.
KnittingJourneyman wrote...
I learn something new or find something else to go see and do every time I visit.
Posted June 22, 2009
Ticothalia wrote...
This lens has so much to offer the writer and/or the artist in us all. What a wealth of prompts and information to enjoy. Thank you, Heather, for all you've put together.
Posted June 28, 2008
Woodnymph wrote...
This is a great lens. I joined Soul Food a number of years ago. It has been an inspiation from day one.
Posted June 23, 2008
beachbum_gabby wrote...
learn a lot from this lens, thanks for sharing knowledgeable infos. 5*1
Posted June 16, 2008
gailkavanagh wrote...
I'm sure all new foodies will benefit from the adventure of learning and growing here as we all have.
Posted June 11, 2008
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