Too hot to think? Too hot to move? Need to feel cool and cleansed? Too tired to read a recipe? May I present... Easy carrot salad!!! It goes well with other salads And on cooler days and nights, is lovely with pan-fried haloumi or eggplant slices. For added protein, throw in a handful of nuts.... Continue Reading →
Farewell futile expectation, desire and resolution.
Margi Macdonald embraces the New Year without resolutions, and hopes you might too.
Imagining beauty and health
Brisbane natural medicine practitioner Margi Macdonald explores ideas of body image and health.
You belong here
Thank-you for visiting. Visitors and readers are the lifeblood of spaces like this, and are part of the warp and weft of a good blog. In our stories and conversations, we weave a tapestry of shared experience, knowledge and wisdom. These pages are for you... tell us.... what would you like to see, hear and... Continue Reading →
“Sugar is good for you!” – and for the people who sell sugar (via The Ethical Nag)
Inspired by The Ethical Nag, Brisbane Natural Medicine practitioner Margi Macdonald explores the simple and healthful pleasures of chewing slowly, and other tasty matters.
Strawberries!
Brisbane acupuncturist and herbalist Margi Macdonald dishes up a bowl of strawberry-related goodness in time for spring.
Asparagus. A cure for road-rage, rampaging and ranting?
Spring is upon us in this great land down-under, and springtime means fresh asparagus. Don't be fooled into thinking this classy vegetable grows naturally all year round. It doesn't. It's one of nature's sublime springtime treats, best when its hidden, subterranean parts had the pleasure of a good, cold winter. So what about the road-raging... Continue Reading →
Living on $2 a day. Could you? Would you?
Internationally, the Extreme Poverty Line is defined as the equivalent of $2 a day. 1.4 billion people currently live below this line, that is 1.4 billion people who do not have the basic choices and opportunities that most Australians take for granted. Imagine just eating below the poverty line for one week – Rachel Hills... Continue Reading →
Feasts for mind and mouth and heart
Sometimes we chance upon a piece of writing so evocative, beautiful, rich and real, that we are transported into the experience of the writer. Today I chanced upon this wonderful piece The Olfactory Safari. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Another happy discovery this week: I picked up a fabulous book... Continue Reading →