Celebrating Our Differences
Loved Ones, Our mission has been to stay safe through a global pandemic, COVID19. An enigma, this virus is attacking people by air and touch, with symptoms and without, and it takes no prisoners. We are all we have. I am inspired by the featured image of worn…
Early starts There is something special about growing and eating food from your garden. Its been about 9 years since David Walton helped me plant my first garden and I have been planting every season since.❤❤❤ I am grateful. This salad was delicious. Kale, arugula, butter lettuce, purple…
This issue finds us celebrating the impetus of a creative universe – Art. It reveals itself through us in every way, and Garden Spices Contributors share their Art and artistic experiences with us. Our Blossom image/feature this issue is Contributor, Pratik Mamtora, dressed as Al-Amir Sihab, a Syrian…
*Dreamers of Immortality* When we paint, a piece of us is left on the canvas. Each stroke, a fraction of our soul refracted like light through a prism. We are harvesters of light that are immortalized through our feelings. Paint in itself is just pigment. Paint in our…
Garden Spices Magazine welcomes you to the new decade! We are turning the page of a tumultuous year and holding the vision of truth for every aspect of our living in 2020. We have the seeds planted for being what we need to be, and what we don’t…
This issue: Time! It’s time for our annual blessing: We wish you Happy Diwali, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Bodhi Day, Id al-Fitr, Yule, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa! With loads of gratitude, these wishes extend from our hearts but are the extent to which Garden Spices addresses the upcoming holidays. However,…
My backyard Has succumbed to the time of Halloween Walking dead weeds growing insatiably covering Rusted bicycles and rotting pumpkins Time to mow? – Anna Lott, PhD Anna grew up in Alabama, spending her entire childhood in the same house where her parents still live today. Anna is a…
Loved Ones, I was visiting my hometown, Chicago. I had a visit from old friends, Sheila & Arnett Smiley and Sheila’s brother, Donald, (Donnie to me). However, this visit was unique; I was finally meeting Sheila’s son, GS Contributor, Marlon Hayes. While my oldest friends and close cousins…
Happy Anniversary to us!! Another year of the vital existence of this messenger. This celebrates five years of core and guest Contributions, avid fans, and abundant blessings – all defining Garden Spices Magazine. We have found our shelter in contributing to this mission and covered many folks with…
Culture! We live it, breathe it, and have the opportunity to be open and receptive to learn about folks outside of our familial tribe. A few years ago, in our first issue, I invited ya’ll to “Jump” into the venture of exploring different cultures. This issue opens your…
