We hope our care package for May finds you warmed by the sun of late spring, that it’s dried out your bones, lightened your spirit and kissed your skin.
This month, we bring you a selection of resources to continue supporting AND understanding your nervous systems. Suggestions for enjoying our time spent close to home for the month of May, whether it be enjoy the local natural beauty or tuning into events elsewhere in the world. And some good suggestions of how to help our bodies adjust to the change of seasons through food and self-care :)
Sticking close to home, we should take the time and space to marvel in the beauty and wonder of living in the Pacific NorthWest. Dip your toes (or all of yourself…) in the ocean, skip stones, breathe in the fresh briny air, look intentionally at the green spring growth, the camas is starting to pop up, plant some vegetables and take an inventory of everything you are grateful for.
And if you are able, support the ongoing efforts of the courageous folks who holding down the Fairy Creek Blockade, a volunteer driven, grassroots, direct-action movement to protect the last remaining ancient temperate rainforests on Vancouver Island. More information about their efforts, visit their GoFundMe Page.
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
– Arundhati Roy
- Spring blossoms Map for the City of Victoria, go out for a walk (in your safe pod of 10 OR LESS) and catch the last of our glorious cherry/plum blossoms, magnolias should be with us for a few more weeks :)
- The 7 types of rest that every person needs, courtesy of Ideas.TED.com
- What’s Happening in Our Nervous Systems? Krista Tippett, host of OnBeing interviews clinical psychologist, Christine Runyan
- The art of generating space, in case you missed it last month, a list of lovely suggestions from Aviva Ciplinski, BCST
- Your ambient piano-themed soundtrack for May:
Nils Frahm – Montreux Jazz Festival 2015
Ólafur Arnalds – Still / Sound (Sunrise Session)
Ólafur Arnalds – We Contain Multitudes (Sunrise Session)
Thom Yorke – Piano Solos
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano for the Isolated
Haruka Nakamura – Still Life - And since we are going to need to stay close to home for the month of May, this would be a good time to remind you of Radio Garden, so you can tune into indie and campus radio stations from other parts of the globe :)
- Some selections from CBC Gem, new documentaries in their library:
Sakhi-Pitiyahte (bright light comes forth from it)
nipawistamasowin: We Will Stand Up
HERstory in Black
A-Yi - The change of the seasons brings forth lots of fresh and green foods, 5 Foods to eat for spring health, from Dao Labs
- It still being nettle season, you might enjoy Nettle Sweet Potato Gnocchi, courtesy of Carmelle Lamaistre, R.Ac., there are also plenty of other seasonally appropriate recipes as well as other resources on her website!
- And of course, there is no end in sight with everything gloriously blooming and shedding all their pollen around, a repeat of How to nip (poke) hayfever in the bud!
