Slowing Down the Aging Process

I love garlic...and here something also very,very healthy...

A treasure for us

vegetables and menues

Love,

Lilie

Thank you Lilie.
Everything looks so healthy.
Here is something else that is good.
The darker the color the more vitamins

All this good food and exercise and sun and wind have made me really sleepy.
Going to get my rejuvenating sleep!

I welcome you to a new day...these exercices make us ready and alert



Love,
Lilie

Dear Lilie,
Just like you, today I am filled with energy.
I have decided to do this...hahaha

Something like this was missing...I like this picture, Inda

Here somebody jumping...

Dear Lilie,
What a day of intense exercise.
Should be no problem to go to sleep; however, if you ever suffer from insomnia, put some springs of Lavender in a sachet bag on and under your pillow. It really relaxes you into a rejuvenating state of sleep!

Thank you for this recommendation...it happens to me not seldom.

Good morning,
What a beautiful illustration.

I keep lavender under my pillow all the time.
I have some growing in the garden and I dry bunches of it to last me through the winter.

Now after a good night's sleep I had some fresh fruit and organic cereal...time for this

Do you really?

More horseriding
and mirroring...

Love, Lilie

More on the theme mirroring...here Socrates mirroring....Plato, I guess



Mirroring as slowing down the ageing process?

Love,

Lilie

I used to ride horses, but that was some years ago. .
Now the day is coming to a close,
and yes, mirroring slows down the aging process.

Now the sun is setting

That sunset, so touching my heart

A kind of celebration....



Love,Lilie

Your image is really beautiful.
I went back to work today, but luckily it was a short day.
Now I am making some nutricious food filled with vitamin A

I am enjoying the exercises and all this healthy food, but I do like the chocolate also.

Vicky

I enjoy watching everyone do the exercise while I am having my coffee and croissant.

Sue

I see I have missed quite a number of great exercises here. Oh, how I loved my bike! But Rome is not really bike-friendly, even if there are a few kilometers of special parcours ... There is still great heat, so all exercise brings immediate fatigue!
After swimming in the Mediterranean sea, after watching the sunsets and the stars, after a few days without ice-cream, today I have had a big one .... well I forgive myself!
I have played with my cat Zelda, which is always great exercise because of the continuous bending down to take the little balls and throw them again, walking from one end to the other of the corridor ... I don't know how she manages to be so active in these days with all her thick fur? Anyway it's good for both of us.

Pets btw seem to have a major role in keeping us healthy and young. I am sure this is true.

Love to all of you. Margherita

Dear Margherita,
I am instantly rejuvenated just looking at that beautiful cat.

I must admit, with the excuse that it is the weekend I barely got through my yoga.
Then I had a croissant with butter and coffee with cream

Now that lovely cat has made me feel sleepy.
Good night.
Tomorrow is another day.

Music is my life,
surely rejunivating
although I don´t play
anything myself

See the beautiful form



Love,

Lilie

Music is relaxing and soothing to the soul.
I used to play piano, but haven't done so in a long time.

Today is Sunday, so I'm going to be a bit lazy.
I'll fiddle with my plants, trim them, feed them and just simply enjoy looking at them.

Everyone should keep some plants, either on a window sill, a balcony or a garden. It is restful and soothing to work with plants.
Always keep some flowers in your home and if possible at your workplace. One single flower will do. If you haven't got a vase, a colorful or interestingly shaped pop bottle will do.

Dear Inda,

I have planned bringing some plants to my working office when I come back after vacation...and to make the whole room more inviting...




Love,

Lilie

Dear Lilie,
This is a very soothing arrangement of plants,
and a lovely, I think, Lladro figurine.
So restful.

I have a small city garden, but it has as many flowers as I can pack into it, and I love working in it

I need plants and flowers in the office. At my desk I am practically embraced by a wonderful immense Kentia palmae like this one (mine is bigger!). People coming in sometimes find that I am working in the jungle! haha. I have some smaller plants too. And yes you guessed it, I talk to my plants.
Wonderful silent presences!
Love, Margherita

Mother and Child by Mary Cassat


And for my further wellbeing in the office I have some beautiful pictures/prints hanging on the walls. Sarah, my daughter brought this poster back when she was in Paris and visited the Louvre. I framed it and it is wonderful.

.... it makes me feel the nearness with my daughter.

Love, Margherita

Thank you for sharing Margherita,
What a love filled poster.

I also have many paintings and prints as well as photographs on my walls at home and in the office, and we always have flowers in the office.
We also have devoted one wall in our private sitting area for poetry, most of Eric's poems are hanging there as well as some of yours and Tim Cannon's.

Love, Inda

I don't own the original Monet...hahaha,
just the print

Good morning everyone.
I hope you are doing your exercises.

I am enjoying your plant and poster pictures.
I also love to work in the garden and keep flowers in my house and at work.

Keep up the exercises. I will check up on you later.

Sue

I see everyone is still doing some exercises, but they are getting easyer.

I did mine before I came to work.

Vicky

I was so delighted reading about the poetry corner in your office...really touched to show something so deep of oneself...

Somebody complained about the exercises getting to easy...what about this?

Just when I thought we could take it easy

At lunchtime I had to do this

I liked your balancing act
...and I am thinking of letting
my dragon out...

My goodness, this exercise has been so tough.
Time to take it easy for a bit.

If you have a chance to get to salty ocean water this is very relaxing to the nervous system. It is good for your skin, and it enhances sleep. After all those gruelling exercises I think that we need a bit of this:

Salty water is wonderful...
but I think I have to do something for strengthening my muscles...like this

Sauna is considered a very healthy treatment ... you must know it dear Lilie .... but right now here we are in a permanent sauna, without any possibility to run in the snow afterwards, without any refrigerium ..... I think I am dissolving.
No possibility at all to do whatever exercises in this heat. Every movement seems too much .... no energy is left. I only dream of rain to cool the air ....


Longing for raindrops ...

Love, Margherita

Dear Margherita,

Saunas are very good, but not if you have to live in one. I know many parts of Europe are a virtual sauna at the moment, so here is something to cool you down.

Oh, yes I know saunas, but am not a sauna friend myself...heat is dissolving all energy I have...and I loose all alertness...

I love those images...amazing observing my reactions when seeing them...the feeling of coolness and that of fresh rain...

I would not say no to this...

Dear Lilie,
This looks very relaxing. It is somewhat hot here as well, so I think I am skipping the challenging exercises for a bit more.

I think that this promises some cool
and refreshing rain

We have rain now, last night a walk in my new rain poncho, there were some light blue strips in the dark cloudy sky



Love,

Lilie

This feels so good Lilie,
just to stand in the rain; but I think it is time to move a bit, so how about a nice walk through the fields in the rain