Happy Thursday to one and all!

@kalemandra hosts an ongoing Color Challenge to celebrate the rainbow through art & photography, and Thursday is GREEN!! It's a blustery, grey winter day in the @gardenofeden, so I'm especially glad to play this GREEN-o-rama game today! 

Green is also the color of the heart chakra, where the spiritual and physical realms meet. This is the seat of love, compassion, forgiveness, and acceptance in the body. If you're not consciously attending your heart center, old wounds can get stuck here, and it seems easy to hang onto grief, anger, jealousy, and grudges. The Sanskrit name of this chakra anahata means "unstruck" or "unhurt", indicating a pure place beyond the pain that shines on eternally.

I want to share this throwback photo that makes me feel warm & joyful on this great green Thursday:

This is a place and a person I love so dearly. Here @everlove & I are happily feasting away in the @gardenofeden, enjoying okra right off the plant! She's having a green species while I'm partaking of a red - just a couple of ladies loving life in the garden and the sunshine! 

@quinneaker founded the Garden of Eden to help people like me and you and everyone else, and I am so grateful to receive the many blessings from his heart, land, and vision. He has shown me love I never knew existed, demonstrates forgiveness I had no concept of on my own, and embodies compassion beyond what I thought was humanly possible!  

I am so grateful to learn from him and my ever cheerful playmate @everlove on what it means to be a stellar person, and I am so grateful for this great, ever GREEN @gardenofeden that nourishes my body and soul. 

I'm meditating hard on GREEN & especially my heart chakra today, because I've been wrapped up in old hurts for too long and it's time to engage something better. Thank you @kalemandra for the great GREEN reminder!! 

💛💚 Sara!