The bugs (and puny plants) are telling me I have a long way to go with the kitchen garden. As you mentioned, the high brix concept can be applied to human and animal health, and has metaphorical implications as well. I’m working on creating a physical and emotional environment that will nourish the heart and soul. Small change by small change.

Thank you for making so much information accessible.

Ellen Moores last blog post..A Change of View

To get high brix you must create the right environment via nutrient levels and ratios. When this takes place the plants will be have a higher brix and the bugs will leave your zucchini alone.

Best wishes for your garden and the health it leads to for you.

Jon

I love your website and know firsthand about the healing power of writing.

I work as a writing coach/mentor with emotionally disturbed and learned disabled students. One of my students, with autism, created 20 haikus. He said he couldn’t do it. I kept telling him he had a rich imagination. It was miraculous to see the words spill from his imagination to the page.

During my past two years in a high school setting, I have had a chance to inspire and touch many students’ life. Basically, I just guide them to find their own natural talents. However, I do take them through the rigors of the editing process. I teach them that writing is ultimately an act of courage.

I am a teaching assistant embarking on a second career after 25 years as a feature writer, arts reporter, and print journalist. My writing continues to inform my decisions in the classroom. I previously taught a class in arts criticism at Columbia College in Chicago.

I embrace many of the beliefs you share and write about so beautifully in your website. We both have a Zen perpective.

That’s why I wanted to connect with you!

It’s always empowering to network with other creative people with healing spirits.

Secondly, I’d like to find a home for an essay I wrote on “Embracing Fear and Dread” as a writer. You are welcome to post it without payment on your website. The only thing I ask is the permission to submit it elsewhere. I would be honored to be included in your website.

Your writing is crisp, and your perspective that writing is inherently a spiritual act is one that I deeply embrace.

Under separate cover, I’m sending my article/esssay and hope you can post it. I’d greatly appreciate it.

Warm wishes,
Terry Loncaric
680 Independence Drive, #4
Palatine, IL 60074

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(847) 202-1865