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Cynthia Brian
May 6, 20183 min read
A Better Way to Educate, Composting, Gain Your Mind
Are our universities serving our young people? Is there a better way to educate? After 125 years, the school model is still the same. Is...
Cynthia Brian
Apr 26, 20183 min read
Traumatic Stress Time Cure and Tree Talk
Do trees communicate with each other? Do they have feelings? What about memories? Learn the language of trees and what they can teach us...
Cynthia Brian
Apr 24, 20185 min read
The Language of Trees
“The ax forgets, the tree remembers.” African Proverb Do trees have feelings? Do they communicate with one another? As I watch the leaves...
Cynthia Brian
Apr 15, 20182 min read
Etiquette in the Air-Spring Seeds
Are you a frequent flyer? Do you have any idea what the etiquette is for traveling today? Heather Brittany joins the conversation to shed...
Cynthia Brian
Mar 26, 20182 min read
Ready, Set, Grow!
“All through the long winter I dream of my garden. On the first warm day of Spring I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel...
Cynthia Brian
Mar 21, 20182 min read
Spring!
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina It’s a time of rebirth. A renaissance of nature. Winter has...
Cynthia Brian
Mar 18, 20183 min read
Cape Town's Drought & Clutter Out
When spring arrives, we have a tendency to want to start decluttering and cleaning closets. Don’t forget we also have to do a garden and...
Cynthia Brian
Mar 12, 20186 min read
March On!
“Truth is rarely written in ink. It lives in nature.” Martin H. Fischer It all started with a box of toothpicks. My siblings and I...
Cynthia Brian
Mar 8, 20183 min read
David Austin Roses with Michael Marriott, and Jungle Jaunt with the Goddess Gardener
Have you ever stuck your nose into the petals of a rose and inhaled in ecstasy? David Austin’s English Roses are some of the most...
Cynthia Brian
Feb 21, 20184 min read
And the Winner Is...
“People are always in good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.” ~Samuel Butler In the first three months of the year, we...
Cynthia Brian
Feb 16, 20185 min read
Jungle Boogie!
The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. ~Source Unknown Completely covered by tangles of...
Cynthia Brian
Feb 8, 20182 min read
Pet Preparedness, Rape and Assault, Dead Man Talking
If you are adopting a new pet, there are a few things you need to know about raising an animal. Long time animal advocate and adopter,...
Cynthia Brian
Feb 5, 20185 min read
Roses are Red...
Roses Are Red By Cynthia Brian “That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet...
Cynthia Brian
Jan 29, 20186 min read
2018 with Be the Star You Are!®
Click to view this email in a browser: Happy 2018 Message form founder/Executive Director, Cynthia Brian It is not our intention to send...
Cynthia Brian
Jan 28, 20183 min read
Cynthia Brian's Newest Book, Growing with the Goddess Gardener
Cynthia Brian's Newest Garden Book is Published! Just in time to banish the the winter blues, Cynthia Brian's first book in the Garden...
Cynthia Brian
Jan 21, 20183 min read
Days of Wine, Weed, and Warding off Colds
Heather Brittany will give discuss some of the science and production of wine making, as well as various varietals Learn the benefits of...
Cynthia Brian
Jan 19, 20180 min read
Cynthia Brian
Jan 13, 20182 min read
Talking Goals and Gardens
A walk through your garden is not only healing emotionally, but it may also contain plants that will aid your physical health. Botanical...
Cynthia Brian
Jan 4, 20185 min read
Yuletide Yearnings
As the holidays melt to a warm memory, we find ourselves gearing up for a new beginning. The number one New Year’s resolution made by the...
Cynthia Brian
Dec 28, 20173 min read
Season of Hope and Light
Teens talk and the world listens every Tuesday NOON PT on the Voice America Kids Network. Produced by StarStyle® Productions, LLC and...
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