My Mother's heart damage - Gift Guidance

Three days ago my Mother ended up in hospital, they found her heart has had some damage.  200 miles away I felt, unknowing of the situation, my heart hurting.  How interconnected we are, and maybe more so to our Mothers, than to any other human being.  As I rest for a moment in this,  I feel this awareness and sense deepen, and layers of an unfolding falling away as I feel how deeply connected my heart is to everyone and all things. 

Possibility from the Pressure

Today, I have been so acutely aware of several places where people I know are experiencing painful situations. In much of society there are echoes of this, and this time of year of Celebration, with joy focus, also carries with it such shadow.

Such beauty and such poignancy........ Feeling all this and being willing to include feeling both the song of the joy and the song of the pain, carries with it a gift, a potentiality. 

Meeting such reality in the places of pressure, calls and invites me to notice too, the cracks where the light starts to pour in. 

This requests me to take care where I place my attention. . . . .

suncrean and sun protection 2011

This summer, 2011, due to changes in regulations in Europe, consumers will have a more difficult time finding natural sunscreen protection since most manufacturers of natural sunscreen have left the market. The new European regulations for sunscreens now require certain levels of UVA protection that are challenging to achieve with all natural ingredients

here are some links I've found to some of the facts

http://www.foe.org/healthy-people/nanosunscreens

http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/blogs/organic-parenting/safe-sunscreen-47051804

http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/FreeBuyersGuides/healthbeauty/sunscreen.aspx


more facts form some companies offering non nano products


http://www.ulula.co.uk/blog/where-are-the-weleda-edelweiss-suncream-and-sun-protection-products/
http://www.truenatural.com/education/item/181-new-european-spf-requirements-force-many-natural-brands-to-pull-sunscreen-off-shelves.html