Greens Water

She comes back every year. She’s survived wind, rain, nasty winters. She has put up with those who mess with her leaves, street people, bottles and gum dumped at her feet, conscientious dog owners, unconscientious dog owners. Smoked on. Sat on. She welcomes children who reach to touch her leaves on the way to school or camp and the Japanese woman who gently pulled a small branch of hers for Ikebana. With the help of a gardener, her branches are now finally tall enough to be inaccessible to most.   It’s almost growth season, so she’ll continue to become more formidable, rooted. Until she next contends with the telephone wires.

Highlights:  Kir Royale Kombucha, Saffron Kitchari Arancini, Fettucine with Cashew Cream Sauce, Spiced Braised Eggplant, Coffee Mango Glazed Tempeh @iceculinary

Greens Water will be on an extended break throughout the summer season and only posting occasionally. 

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For Older Women:  You are a woman of a certain age. You want to be stylish but have earned the right to look more sophisticated, to take more space in a room and to not look girlish.  You like to express yourself with fashion but don’t want to seem too trendy or like a fashion victim. Age appropriateness has disappeared, but you still abide by a certain discipline and rules. Especially when, not all, but so many fashion houses gear their offerings to younger women. Here’s some tips to keep in mind to ditch the idea of looking younger and to find your stylish, comfortable self:                                                                    ...

Once you make frugality a lifestyle, it becomes fun to come up with different, common-sense, not over-the-top ways to save. Cost-cutting can help you develop an independent lifestyle. And it can certainly positively influence your income.  Mindset View all income as dollars earned – no matter the source. Just as every dollar spends the same, every dollar earned is the same, no matter the source of the dollar. There are no better dollars, whether you are an accountant, waitress or freelance writer. When income is viewed this way, flexibly, it’s easier to pivot when one source of income dries up. Because if that’s all it is, one source of income, you can come up with another. As far as cost-savings, the age-old trick of calculating how much you would need to work to pay for something, makes you value what you buy with your income. If someone is successful, rather than resenting them, figure out how they are successful, even if they had privileges. Figure out what they did. Some...

Micro Blogger & Consumer: Sustainability, Food, Design, Lifestyle, Arts, Personal Finance, Local. Greens Water microblog, with over 4000 views online, is a constant discovery of points of interest, near and far. Expansion into new formats manifest while remaining content to just be in the spring for the now. #spring

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Living in small apartment spaces can be challenging practically and aesthetically. The space can tip over to being overstuffed and can become disorganized.  These are ideas to set small spaces up efficiently, so they function properly and are allowed to display their considerable charms. Generally, in small spaces you are forced to decorate up against walls, since there is not enough space to place objects in the middle of a room. That’s okay, you can plan to to decorate up against walls, when you understand the walls themselves, the width and the height, and where the corners are. This restriction can work in your favor when you envision the different furniture options you can place against them. What furniture do you wish to place near the windows? What can you place in the corners?   Using clip lights on an armoire, bookcase or desk, highlights the given location,  reaches the apartment walls, warming and opening up the space. Plants and other objects can be positi...