Solandra<\/a> Flower Essence is all about reminding us we are lovable and loved because we exist not because of what we do. Solandra<\/a> reminds us we exist as love in an ocean of love and have nothing to prove.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, a week later, I wonder if I took this photo of Solandra<\/a> but didn’t actually take her Flower Essence…..<\/p>\n\n\n\n As I get back to this blog a Solandra said to As I reminisce about last week’s Solandra<\/a>! Help me learn how to give a hairy eyeball in the face of all special requests. This was a look that my mother mastered so well that I still shudder to think of it. Help me master her hairy eyeball so no one will ever again insist that every Thanksgiving needs a banana cream pie. If I master this look, everyone will be happy with one crappy store bought pumpkin pie as my siblings and I were during our childhood Thanksgivings For goodness sake, my mother served peas, rice, crescent rolls from a tube and turkey at our Thanksgivings (complete menu), and we ENJOYED it. Yes, I was thrilled when I discovered Jim’s family’s Thanksgiving meal included mashed potatoes, stuffing, yams and GRAVY, but would I have complained to my mother about our modest table? No! I was too afraid of her hairy eyeball. My siblings and I could feel it across any crowded room. It was a laser beam that terrified. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After this Thanksgiving, I wish her hairy eyeball was in my bag of tricks, How relaxing it would be if everyone ACTED as if they were enjoying a spread of turkey, peas and one solitary pie. This would leave me Oh Solandra<\/a>, help me know I am a human being not a human doing and if you can, teach me all my mother knew about a well used hairy eyeball. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two days before Thanksgiving I began this blog with: The Solandra bloomed this morning. I felt like it was a kiss sent out to all the overworked folks out there getting ready to pause in already very busy lives to put on a complicated Thanksgiving feast. Solandra Flower Essence is all about reminding us we … Continue reading Piegate aka Solandra Flower Essence Much Needed<\/span> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/wp-contents\/upload\/2023\/11\/IMG_8681-1024x768.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nlong<\/s> seven days later, I have a bit of a snarky attitude<\/s> some thoughts. Perhaps I am need a radical attitude adjustment<\/s> need the staff of Downton Abbey<\/s> need a time out in Fiji <\/s> need to go and visit with the Solandra<\/a> blossoms out in the greenhouse again drink a quart of Solandra Flower Essence water every day until the next holiday<\/s>, go on strike and pitch a tent at Solandra’s side refusing to come out of the greenhouse unless someone else cooks<\/s>, so I have inner strength to tell next year’s gathered hoards<\/s> guests expecting five thousand different side dishes as well as their own bespoke pie that…….<\/s><\/p>\n\n\n\nBACK OFF! <\/s> chill out.<\/p>\n\n\n\nover the top<\/s> holiday feast <\/s> dinner, I know a few things and feel a lot more<\/s>, A pie or two would have been enough. Did we really need a pumpkin pie, 3 (THREE) pecan pies, a cherry pie, a chocolate cream pie, a banana cream pie and an apple pie? I think not. We were 22 gathered, not 220. Seven were children. Some ate nothing more than a squeeze pouch of applesauce. Some of us should have only eaten a squeeze pouch of applesauce<\/s>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nbecause they will be afraid to say otherwise.<\/s><\/p>\n\n\n\nrested<\/s> giddy<\/s> able to leave the kitchen and go read a book<\/s> serene and grandmotherly in some 1950’s type way<\/s>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/wp-contents\/upload\/2023\/11\/IMG_8680-1024x768.jpg\")
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