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🗝️ Book of Life Salon 1 Min Read

MARKS TO ADORE

It’s so easy to get caught up in “wanting”. Something more beautiful. More perfect. New. But aren’t the things that matter most in life those who wrote our story with us? They have scratches. Stains. Folded corners. Faded colours. Les traces d’une vie.

So why, when it comes to our faces, do we suddenly believe the opposite? Somewhere along the way, we became convinced that beauty should mean smooth. Spotless. Almost untouched by time. Mais pourquoi?

We talk about getting older as if it were a process of losing.
Firmness. Smoothness. Youth. Time.

But perhaps aging isn’t about losing or subtraction. Perhaps it’s about accumulating. Stories. Expression. Character. Laughter. Experience. A presence that something new — or a younger self — simply hasn’t had the time to build yet.

And you — what do you own that you love more because of its marks?

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🗝️ Nature Distilled Arboreum 3 Mins Read

REFLECTIONS AS THE YEAR FADES

#7/8. Samhain and All Saints — the quiet threshold between autumn and winter, when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead feels especially thin. It’s a time that invites reflection, remembrance, and gratitude for all that has shaped us.

The weather couldn’t fit better — grey, still, and cold enough to call for candles, warmth, and quiet thoughts. The kind of day that makes you sit down with a cup of tea, light incense, and listen — not only to the world around you, but also to the one within.ningly this that much slew.

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❁DESTINATIONS 3 Mins Read

Following les Olives

Olives are everywhere here in the South. Vraiment partout. 🫒 Whenever we go hiking in the hills behind the Côte d’Azur, we pass old olive groves, tiny terraced fields and those wonderfully crooked trees that seem to have been there forever. Les oliviers simply belong to the landscape.

And they mean so much more than food. Picasso’s olive branch became one of the most recognisable symbols of peace, and years later his daughter Paloma turned the beauty of olive leaves into jewellery for Tiffany. But here in the South, you don’t really have to look for the symbolism. You live with it.

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🗝️ Nature Distilled Arboreum 3 Mins Read

AUTUMN EQUINOX

#6/8. For me, this sixth ritual — out of eight nature rituals — is about pausing, looking back at the past months, and finding balance and harmony for the time ahead. 🐾

The little reading dog in the picture stands as a symbol of thankfulness — a gentle reminder that everything still growing in the forest and meadows now belongs to nature and the animals as they prepare for winter. 🌿 It’s the moment when the gardener, the wanderer, the observer steps back, allowing the cycle of life to continue on its own.

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🗝️ Nature Distilled Arboreum 1 Min Read

MIDSUMMER VIBES

This Saturday marked another sacred point in our seasonal circle —
Midsummer/JOHANNI/SOMMER SONNENEWENDE.

This season calls for patience (which doesn’t come easily to me),
for drawing from nature’s abundance — noticing it, honouring it.
And for reflecting on relationships —
I’ve just had to say a quiet, heartfelt goodbye.

If you want to bring this powerful time into your life —
this joy, this physical ripeness, this peak-of-summer heat —
surround yourself with the colours of the season:
blue, lavender, raspberry red.

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🗝️ Nature Distilled Arboreum 2 Mins Read

WALPURGIS: PURE POWER

Out of the ordinary. Into the full life: THE STORY of being HAPPY & COLORFUL 🙂

The nights around May 1st are Walpurgis nights – a time when many villages celebrate life.
Originally, because this is when the first fruits ripen and nature shows its fullness. Many people love this special time to honor life, get together, put up the may tree and celebrate hope and new beginnings together. In France, people symbolically give each other a lily of the valley.

✨ The 3 colors of this time of year, when spring turns into summer, are

Strawberry red – for joie de vivre, liveliness and the pulsating heart of summer.
➔ Artistic inspiration: Henri Matisse, whose reds stand for pure energy and joy.

Rosé – reminds us of tenderness, self-love and gentle strength.
➔ Artistic inspiration: Georgia O’Keeffe, whose rosé tones open flowers like souls.

Green – symbolizes growth, healing and the power of new beginnings.
➔ Artistic inspiration: Claude Monet, with his infinite, breathing gardens.

Let these colors consciously enter your life, e.g. in the decoration of our home or workplace, in our clothes or even deeper: in our thoughts and in our soul. Because in nature, May is also an invitation to the animal and plant world:

Time for new beginnings.

Time for joie de vivre.

Time to take courage for your own strength.

Have a wonderful and colorful may time 🙂

PS: You want to burn incense yourself – please be very careful – it is not completely safe – feel free to ask me which herbs to use at this time of the year. If you write MAY in the caption, I will send you 3 fantastic questions that you can ask yourself now in May to reflect.

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There are moments when time seems to pause – the Wisteria you see here was probably planted at least 70 years ago and is perfect for today's "glass of nature": the scent of wisteria is sweet and strong, Bees dancing in slow motion, A sky so clear, it hums peace.
🗝️ Nature Distilled Arboreum 1 Min Read

LET NATURE LEAD

There are moments when time seems to pause – the Wisteria you see here was probably planted at least 70 years ago and is perfect for today’s „glass of nature“:
the scent of wisteria is sweet and strong,
Bees dancing in slow motion,
A sky so clear, it hums peace.

Wisteria (Glycinie) – not just a flower,
But a memory keeper, a silent storyteller,
Whispering of ancient English gardens,
Of patience, resilience, and elegance in bloom.

This is what happens when you let nature lead.

🌸 Take the moment. Smell the bloom with me. Let your soul catch up and just enjoy.

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