Be there for someone 🌲

source : Toyota

Give your kitchen a break

^{Metro AG}

Cherish the little things that are magical out there

  [soul pancake]

Vocabulary chunks to learn from video :

• The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree
• For me and my mom
• The choices she made
• She has taught me to love nature
• Cherish all the little things that are magical out there
• Eyes wide open
• Deep breaths
• An open heart
• Rustling leaves
• Calms my frantic thoughts
• Make shift fishing rod
• The circle of life
• Everything on this planet flows in cycles
• Create something new in its place
• Feel this connection deeply and profoundly
• Full of life and beauty
• Try as we might we will never create like nature does
• Both are vital to my creativity
• What passions have your parents instilled in you?
• Every other Monday

 

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Make Everyday Brighter

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Vocabulary chunks to learn from video :

• Well It’s how you see it
• A merry-go-round
• Things to explore
• Open many doors
• A new way for a new every day
• Make some art
• Make a mess
• Add some more
• Make it less
• Sleepovers
• High fives
• Let it go
• Run away
• Peek a boo
• Say hello how are you
• Make some noise
• Let’s go fly away
• Make everyday brighter

Missing Africa #6

“Patience attracts happiness; it brings near that which is far” Swahili proverb

We had the same dream

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For the last 18 years, Christopher and Eva Dry have lived and worked on their biodynamic farm. It hasn’t always been easy, but their love for their land, biodynamic farming, and this special way of living keeps them here. As Christopher says – “The light makes no sense without the dark. It needs the dark to have strength.”

Vocabulary chunks to learn from the video :

Ordinary kind of job
I tried doing nothing for a while
Growing vegetables
There was some value in what you were doing
A biodynamic farm
We had the same dream
Farming activities
Handling cow manure
Digging in the garden
Driving the tractor
Working with the animals
I love getting involved with it
A source of renewal
It makes me feel better
I love the farm and I love being here
Farming is exceedingly difficult
On every front
Somehow we’ve managed to keep going
The children feel that we’re nuts to be here
There will always be materialism
People working towards more idealistic goals
The light makes no sense without the dark
Next lifetime I’m going to be a materialist

Every single day there is something to be grateful for

Green Renaissance

Vocabulary chunks to learn from the video :

• I never knew this kind of life existed
• Not even remotely
• Downstairs is our shop, and we live upstairs
• We have a TV, it’s called life
• We lie in the bath at night and watch the stars
• Go visiting
• It’s a quiet life, it’s gentle
• Being a single mom
• It was quite daunting
• I was constantly angry and cross
• I tried to make ends meet
• Giving them an opportunity to actually connect with something that is real
• Add value to their lives
• Every single day is a miracle
• Every single day there is something to be grateful for
• A bread maker
• You spread the load and you’ve got twice as much
• It’s magical
• You can’t explain it
• It’s just a way of being, it’s choice
• We are all one, we are collective

 

 

Make your own

everywhere you go

Happiness experts wanted

[soulpancake]

Vocabulary chunks to learn from video :

• Being able to afford your next meal

• At a dance hall

• A giggling joyful mess on the sidewalk

• Just being still

• It’s a state of mind

• Up in the mountains

• As I grew older

• The people around me became the source of my happiness

• Cotton candy

• A bucket list

• Swimming with dolphins

• Happiness in one word