by Amanda C Vesty | Jun 10, 2022 | Environment, Gardening and gardens, History & Culture, Sacred and Divine, Trees The Green Legacy
The Origins of Ti Kuan Yin or Tieguanyin Tea Last Wishes tea rooms are where we can get together as a community to celebrate life, as well as host talks, discussions, use our famous cards and more. I thought it would be fitting to take a look at an ancient tea...
by Amanda C Vesty | May 10, 2022 | Beliefs in Afterlife, Death, History & Culture, Sacred and Divine, superstitions
Ah puch is an extremely fearsome deity usually depicted as a skeleton, often with rotting flesh. He is also known as Ah Cimih, Ah Cizin, Hun Ahau, Kimi, or Yum Kimil. In the Quechua language Cimi means “Death” and Cizin “The Flatulent One”...
by Amanda C Vesty | Mar 10, 2022 | Community, Death, Environment, Final Resting Places
Dawn de Vivre, In Loving Memory On the day my beautiful friend Dawn De Vivre (formerly Dr Dawn Gibbins MBE) died, in the early hours I awoke to hear a bird singing extraordinarily loudly outside my window. As morning broke after her death, the day dawned bright and...
by Amanda C Vesty | Jan 18, 2022 | Celebration of Life, Ceremony, Family, Funerals, Gardening and gardens
To Have and to Hold – By Wendy Clarkson Why funerals are like weddings. As a green funeral director and civil funeral celebrant, I have written and guided many people through a simple personal unique farewell to someone they loved. It never ceases to amaze me...
by Amanda C Vesty | Jan 11, 2022 | Community, Grief, Well Being
8 Ways Laughter Is Good For Health and Well Being By Wendy Clarkson This is not a laughing matter. This is serious business. Laughter is good for your health and well being. What better time to try and remember this fact is leading up to and following a bereavement....
