The Essential Element to Better Living
Something You Already Have
Feed Your Soul Love
While the world struggles with diametrically opposed views on how we should function as a species, the essential element to better living and making a difference starts with a grass roots effort completely in our control - love. On the global scale, there is change, unrest, wins for some, losses for others. Good versus evil lies in the eye of the beholder, of which we are currently so severely split.
For our family, we do things together that imbue joy and love. We spend time together getting out of daily minutia, studies, work, and politics to saturate ourselves in sunshine and love.
Creating Memories at Sweet Eats Farm
Having lived in the Pacific Northwest for years, we had the pleasure of visiting the well known Skagit Valley Tulip Festival every spring. Bulbs of all kinds, especially tulips, flourish in the Pacific Northwest climate. We were spoiled to live so near the stunning colors of nature’s beauty planted row after row, field upon field, with miles and miles of flowers to revel in with the back drop of snow capped mountains. It was breathtaking,
Contrastingly, the new tulip fields at the Sweet Eats Adventure Farm north of Austin, TX, with bulbs shipped directly from Holland, afforded us a tulip experience a little warmer and dryer, but nonetheless beautiful. Many bulbs survived the recent four day temperature plunge in the 20’s at night, with even more bulbs promising to burst with fresh color over the following weeks.
We enjoyed a quiet weekday family field trip, wandered the tulips fields and enjoyed numerous activities at the Sweet Eats Farm. It was a healthy respite for us all to focus on what matters most, our family love.
Ok, so maybe not everything was quiet. The apple cannon was sure to wake up the neighborhood, but what a load of fun to shoot at a collection of metal sculptures. Not to fear, no waste hear. Local critters from armadillos to racoons feast on the delicious apple remains after hours.
Careful - don’t blink while they drink! Bottle feeding the baby goats took less than a minute as these little ones feverishly slurped up every drop in the bottle then started sucking our fingers looking for more. It was cute, fun, and little gross, but manageable thanks to the hand sanitizer bottles in abundance, plus a fresh water cleaning station upon departure. Although the bottle feeding was an expedited service, we were welcome to visit with the dozens of frolicking and bleating little goats throughout the feeding area. Our daughter especially was happily captivated by their cuteness.
Opposing Views
So while we were happy enjoying the Texas Tulip fields with each other and other peaceful patrons, in the Pacific Northwest where we used to live, people were protesting Elon Musk and Donald Trump proclaiming them Nazis. I am grateful we all enjoy freedom of speech to voice our opinions, but I have walked through concentration camps (Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Mauthausen, and Treblinka to name a few) and learned as a child traveling with my parents through Europe the unsettling reality of Hitler’s reign.
I can only hope anyone who feels this way spends time deeply researching the past, like reading The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor. Here my friend’s grandfather and Holocaust survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life.
May the years ahead bring us closer together in peace.
With love, health, and knowledge, may you live abundantly. See you again in the next post.
Warmly,
Brit-Simone
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It was a great day!
Love your articles Brit-Simone.
You mention the concentration/death camps. It has been 4 plus decades since I stepped inside one yet I have to say that the imprint in my DNA is forever.
Even reading this today causes me to tear up and feel a tightness around my heart.
How any human being could be a part of this massive terror is beyond my understanding. The depth of inhumanity and depravity on such a global scale shows me that human beings are capable of being satanic monsters.
To say that people were told to carry out these torturous and murderous attacks on their victims does not cut it. If it costs you your life so be it. Better to die a hero than live as a minion, a piece of 💩, for the rest of your miserable life.
I can still smell that lingering scent of dying, and hear the screams of suffering and torture walking into the Auschwitz death camp.
When I got back to my home on wheels I felt as if I had lost my humanity. I had bought a piece of meat to cook for dinner. I did not eat for a few days. I felt dead by the horror I had experienced and my hunger was gone.
Calling a person a slur such as Hitler, Nazi or such is a deep stab in many millions of people’s heart across the planet. You are either uneducated, did not fight against Hitler, was not connected to whose who did, are living under a rock, or are just brainwashed, moronic minions of the Marxist left.