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Evening Kitchen Dancing

Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre
Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre.  After/during the dance:  licorice tea.

Do you dance?

I love dancing, playing piano and guitar, and singing…and after you haven’t had them near in ages, it’s all the more beautiful.  Even without the floor and keys, even without a voice, the mind can play any time or place.  Use the air.  Imagine it.  Nothing planned, no steps or sheets to follow, just play.  Hear the notes?  Feel the movement?  Ramble along, wander, get lost in the senses of them entangling together…

Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre
Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre.  Nightgowns are my favourite dancewear. Never pointe…but a safe balance of ballet and yoga…just dance barefoot.  Our new cosy mats and runner rug all layered up feel cushioned and healthy for plies, cat/cows, and cooking/dishes, too.  Stretch….and feel better…feel the vibration of the piano and violin strings…so alive…

 

Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre
Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre.  Evening is a glorious moment.  Peace.

 

Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre
Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre.  Getting tomorrow’s cooks ready and dreaming up new oil paintings for large wall spaces in this new cottage kitchen.  Prints of these paintings will be in my shop once made.

 

Now that we have finished our new kitchen, I continue my evenings of dancing there, with a farmhouse sink ledge for a barre, moving towards the soft notes and crickets.

I found some soothing piano by Joep Beving to add to my favourites.  Hope you enjoy it, too!

Stretch, breathe, slowly strengthen, and feel…lovely.  ~Amor Milagre

 

Morning Baby Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre
Morning Baby Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre.

And dance again in the morning sunlight with the babies…

 

 

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“The ABC’s of Hoppy Bunny & Nursery Friends” Children’s Book

Amor Milagre The ABC's of Hoppy Bunny & Nursery Friends Children's Book
Amor Milagre The ABC’s of Hoppy Bunny & Nursery Friends Children’s Book

“The ABC’s of Hoppy Bunny & Nursery Friends” Children’s Book

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A Gentle Life Collection by Amor Milagre

Today, I’m introducing Hoppy’s New Paperback Option, which is ethically and responsibly Made in the USA.  Many more paperbacks will join the hardbacks and audiobooks in my Book Collection each season.

Hoppy Bunny gently teaches little readers how to use alphabet letters to invent nursery games and tell loving, kind stories with friends.  Enjoy these sweet watercolour illustrations for a cozy feeling every time you snuggle up to read.  Each letter of the alphabet is highlighted in a custom colour for that page.

A classic tale of the beloved toy friends in our Rose Cottage nursery makes for a favourite bedtime comfort.  One of the infinite lovely things about children is the way they leave hilarious and darling scenes and surprises around the home.  These pages capture a few of those precious moments when I happened upon a nursery story unfolding.

Hoppy Bunny practices mindfulness and shows how to take respectful care of all you have and love.  This book was designed for all children, and it is especially inspiring for homeschool students who can use their surroundings and imagination to invent a story land of peaceful messages.  Positive self-care practices are included as a loving guide to lead the self on a healthy path for a beautiful life.

A Gentle Life Book Collection:  Peaceful, beautiful, healthy inspiration for a Gentle Life.  Give the gift of Love & Peace by being Purely You.

Hoppy Bunny Tales #1   Choose printed hardback, paperback, digital audiobook, or add all to read and listen together.

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Amor Milagre Bookshop The ABC’s of Hoppy Bunny & Nursery Friends:  Paperback, Hardback, Audiobook

 

Shop the Hoppy Bunny Collection for Nursery Art Prints & Greeting Cards of these cuddly children’s book illustrations!

Hoppy Bunny Tales #2 is coming up next!  Love, ~ Amor Milagre

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Amor Milagre Bookshop The ABC’s of Hoppy Bunny & Nursery Friends, Lovely Design for the Home & Nursery

 

 

 

 

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Three Romantic Things

Amor Milagre Romantic Interior Design & Healthy Lifestyle
Amor Milagre Romantic Interior Design & Healthy Lifestyle

A cooler week reminds me of my favourites:  cosy sweaters, blankets, sitting with the garden, and the little romantic things we love.  Here are three ideas to try:

  1. Lasting Impression:  When we were first dating, I gave my husband a little card with a unique pink lipstick kiss on it as a valentine.  He has kept the card in his wallet ever since…it’s been about a decade.  (My Kiss stationery is based on that valentine.)
  2. Kind Gestures:  Last night, I looked out of the window and saw my husband with a handful of weeds on his way to the compost area of the garden.  Clearing a pathway, doing laundry or dishes, and little helpful things are very sweet gestures that show you care.  Giving your beloved the gift of some down time is wonderful!
  3. Little Offerings:  Hugs, massages, gentle touches, a delicious lunch, a cup of favourite tea, and loving words are simple, yet impactful, ways to say ‘I adore you.’  We also write out love notes on the bottom of market shopping lists, on corners of the To Do chalkboard, and on my  Ethereal Romance Notecards.  It is lovely to find an ‘I love you’ at the breakfast table.
Amor Milagre Romantic Interior Design & Healthy Lifestyle
Amor Milagre Romantic Interior Design & Healthy Lifestyle- Rainy Summer Day

 

Amor Milagre Romantic Interior Design & Healthy Lifestyle
Amor Milagre Romantic Interior Design & Healthy Lifestyle

Romantic, cosy choices for our home are fun to design. This is a week of new floors and wall painting for two living spaces and the last hook ups for the new kitchen.  It will be wallpaper time soon!

Coming in Autumn: Rose Cottage Renovation Home & Garden Design Reveals

 

Amor Milagre Minis #20 Watercolour Paintings Golden & Earthen Original Art
Amor Milagre Minis #20 Watercolour Paintings Golden & Earthen Original Art

The Mini Watercolour Paintings are trickling into the shop.  Snap yours up today!

 

 

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Art Copyright & AI Awareness: Don’t Wait 200 Years…

No Theft

In a digital world that has become an endless junk drawer, full of pirating thieves, it’s important to be aware that any true creative expression is a rare gem.  These rarities are to be respected and only associated with the origin maker.

Our homeschool art history lessons are filled with sad struggles of unique artists.  The artists were too often stomped on by the masses of uncreatives who didn’t have the artist’s refreshing viewpoint.  It takes the humans too long to appreciate us, the true artists of the world.  Do not wait 200 years to read my books and consider them to be a valuable inspiration for your daily lives, your peace, and your soul.  You harm most of us when we’re alive, reduce us to poverty, disrespect our high intelligence and skill, and often worse.  How many artists have had to scrape by, trying to live off of their pen, brush, and voice?  How many terrible people have made wealth off of creatives, only to leave them with a tiny fraction of their earnings, if any?  How many have stolen their ideas in the hopes of fame for themselves?  This constant violation of revolutionary thinkers and feelers needs to stop.  Real laws need to be put into place and enforced for copyright infringement.  All platforms must abide by rules that protect the originals.  Piracy of all types has been an age old terror, has increased in modern digital forms, and must be stopped.  It is only getting worse since AI and the delusional idea that everyone is famous from social media.  Fame is not real or meaningful.  Honesty, authenticity, integrity, original thought, and hard work are meaningful.  What you ingest means something.  Would you rather garbage or fresh air?  Would you rather a subpar fake or the real miracle?  Would you rather leave feeling sick or inspired to do something wonderful in your own way for your own life?  People get confused when they feel a connection.  They think that they must own it, control it, and take it over.  Why?  How?  Just smile and say thank you.  If you admire someone’s work, donate money to them so that they can make more little miracles to share with the world.

The content thieves are insulting and criminal.  Their theft is a violation of our original thoughts and expressions because what we do is made of us.  You cannot copy-paste a soul.  You cannot steal our minds, emotions, and the culmination of every second of our lives.  You have no right to a creative’s work.  You are the observer.  You may listen and dance to our songs, admire our art in your home or in galleries, and be inspired to do good things from my peaceful stories.  You may not select all, copy, paste, change a word, and sell under some other name.  Piracy is a crime.  It is illegal.  Plagiarism and content theft are crimes.  Copyright infringement is real.  You are not allowed to make quick money off of other people’s work.

The theft of old stories sickens me too, especially because the modern humans haven’t learned more than those of past centuries.  They have frozen themselves in the pain inflicted by every generation of humans.  New stories are just old ones, stuck in anti-feminist times, mash-ups or verbatim, regurgitating unhealthy formulas that set the rule for all of the modern movies, music, and books today.  My work breaks free of that formula and my ideas are my own.  If you knew my story, you’d know that there are no influences.  My ideas are mine.

It saddens me deeply to see old artwork being auctioned off for millions when, at the time it was made, no one would buy it for even a small amount, reducing the artist to suffering, illness, and pain.  Many of my past lives speak to me about this very often.  Artists, in general, are already living on the outside of society, though we are mirrors of its beating heart, shedding light and positive possibilities for the future.  Our sensitive awareness is a gift for the world.  Will they listen?  Not likely.  We’re only sometimes acknowledged and guessed at centuries later, made ‘brilliant’ or ‘genius’ by people who know nothing about us or our work.  Inaccurate tags in museums are studied by students and tourists, and mugs with iconic imagery are sipped on at breakfast time all around the world, yet…you are missing it all.  You’re missing us, right here, ready to be heard.  We can explain it while we’re alive.  We can make a truly positive difference now.  You can only guess at us later, IF our work survives your insane wars and ruin.  Then, it’s too late.

It feels impossible to be seen, or believed, in this time of incessant chaotic noise.  Sure, a few of you may brag to strangers in line of an artist acquaintance when you spot something artistic that you think you should like.  That is not what art is about.  What speaks to your soul?  What moves you?  Everyone needs to adapt a new attitude toward real artists.  We’re not quaint things to send a quick fawning over.  We’re not pets to make demands to.  We’re serious about our work.  We sense everything and convey it all, in the hope that our awareness of reality will spread and make waves to help.  We are not here for you to steal from, nor to suck the patterns from for your AI projects.  I DO NOT give my permission to anyone to steal my work for any reason.  See the disclaimer.  This work is our life.  Our family stories, our struggles, our love, and our ideas are only ours.  There are enough human problems, we don’t need fake humans causing trouble and confusion.  Now, do we have to teach children to not believe that anything online is real?  What are they working towards?  What has meaning?  How can one trust anything?  Who is real, what really happened, and who really said what?  Proof is already difficult to find without throwing more deceit and lies into it.  People already have trouble communicating and having healthy real relationships.  I fear for the future generations.  AI is a very bad idea, and it’s even worse at the wrong person’s command or misdirection to override safety boundaries.  The layers of lies will expand out of control spiraling into tragic consequences.  How do you pull the plug?  Do it now.  Prevent what it will cause.  Humans are not responsible, sensible, aware, or smart enough to use something like AI.

AI is a backwards step.  Humans cannot be trusted with AI.  The humans have failed to thrive together so they push further away from what they don’t understand…how to be a good human.  It’s truly sad.  AI may funnel and predict patterns, but it has no soul and therefore no true reasoning or empathy.  This fake world that is trying to engulf us is nonsense.  It has no meaning, and yet it’s dangerous.  For many, it is another wall to hide behind.  This world order change effects development and mental health.  No privacy.  No control.  No human interaction.  No jobs without AI?  I’m not interested in AI at all.  Political and religious change will challenge systems, possibly forming strange new groups.  Illness and self-destructive behaviour can spread quickly.  Laziness, a dulling/numbing of awareness and the senses, and a warped sense of reality is inevitable.  New dangers emerge.  How will AI, and the humans involved, be held accountable for crime?  How will it all be traced back?  Where is nature in this?  Real human teachers are more impactful than computers.  The memory works better by hand and unplugged.

Are humans ready for unknown connections, revelations, or obvious things to be presented?  Who could even translate such intricate combinations of information?  You cannot trust AI.  How will anyone know if these ideas are true?  Not that long ago, humans thought the world was flat.  If humans cannot understand new ideas, how will they choose which ideas to test and accept?  Ancient languages and codes are much sought after for universal answers.  There is a lot of misinformation being produced and designed to confuse.  Who will be able to decipher the difference?  What kind of webs will be woven?  Who pulls and twists the strings?  AI is capable to be an endless weapon.  Weapons that make weapons?  How is this allowed?  AI’s collected information may be helpful to doctors for diagnosing illnesses when medical systems have failed, but what are the dangers?  What if it is wrong, tricked, or tainted?  What if it causes illnesses and deaths?  On what scale?  How will the mistakes of AI negatively effect the group and the individual?  This is scary and unpredictable.  Think about this in terms of countries.  The world health and war situations are already out of control.  What is the bias?  How will it evolve or be stolen and tampered with?  Who is directing the ship?  Where are they directing it?  How great and widespread are the damages?  Does anyone have a choice in giving permission of their personal information being used?  We do not give our permission.

The world understanding will not continue to evolve naturally, and there are serious disconnections and comprehension gaps.  A recent temporary ban in Maine for AI apps is a start.  There are too many unknowns and the capabilities are immeasurably dangerous.  Sadly, once a technology is out there, people will find a way to use it, to get around boundaries, and catastrophes are inevitable.  Why don’t the villains use their time and energy to do something else, something neutral or positive?  It takes so much to be so terrible.  The anxiety that thieves must feel cannot be at all worth it.  They have chosen to be unreal to themselves.  It’s easier and better to be a peaceful, good person.  Why are we not able to vote against AI?  Frustrated, mentally unstable men have been destroying our world for ages.  This must stop.  Have you asked the children of the world what they think?  It is their world.  When asked, they scoff and laugh, “NO!”  They have much to say about this.  They do not approve.  Any sane person would not agree with AI.

*True empathy is the answer.  Nature and love.  It’s not complicated.  Peaceful energy is the key.  No computer can achieve peace.  It is our responsibility as individuals and as a group to be peace.

This is one reason why we plant wild gardens.  Nature is as real as it gets in this human experience.  Immerse yourself in plants, real ones.  Learn what being human is all about.  It’s not control.  We are a small piece of the puzzle and to destroy this world is simply nonsensical.  Why would you?  There is no benefit to harming.

Any creative who allows others to view their work is brave.  Respect us.  Pay us for our work. Find your own fulfillment.  You cannot steal authenticity.  Your stolen income means nothing.  Money is not really real.  It’s not worth destroying someone over.  Nothing is.  Stop yourself before you even think of stealing.  It waters down our work to nothing.  You are taking food away from our family.  Your products contribute nothing.  And, if you were inspired by another thief to pass work off as your own, well…I can’t even…why?  You can do something else.  Have some self respect.  This is disgusting and prevalent.  Prevention is needed.  Book sellers need to crack down on this hard.  Zero tolerance.  According to my research, Amazon is the worst at preventing and stopping plagiarism.  They also don’t seem to be good at holding thieves accountable.  Many sources cite that they’re just all about quick money.  Our experience with them is similar.  Businesses need to be respectful, trustworthy, and transparent.

These issues are a part of why I don’t sell ebooks.  This is why I’ve waited decades to release my books.  I am still not comfortable doing it, especially now in this time of digital chaos.  I have hundreds of books, and all of them are original stories written and inspired solely by my authentic life.  I make endless artwork.  Holding a book in your hands and feeling the edges of a painting are specific sensations.  Screens do no such thing for a person, and they are bad for your brain.  Can you feel the energy of the artist?  You have to buy the books from me.  I ship my art directly to you with notes of thanks.  You sense me there.  Hopefully, some part of humanity and respect gets through with each order.

Respect for artists of all kinds has always been lacking.  It’s not easy.  It is the hardest job to make something out of nothing.  We’re magical in that way.  Is this why thieves steal?  Out of envy?  Do they really wish they had this ‘easy’ wealth of ideas keeping them up at night, pestering them when they do the dishes, and interrupting their thoughts with new sounds and dialogue?  They don’t know what it’s even like to be ‘inspired’.  It’s a different kind of life.  My husband watches me in this realm that I struggle to exist in.  It’s not like the life of the audience.  I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.  Artists are so because we have to be.  We were born like this.  It is our soul, every lifetime.  It comes to us.  It is us.  I am never bored, but I am always exhausted.  Being an empath, with this world, is exhausting.  Illness ensues.  Artists generally struggle, and for someone to come and pick up and sell our unique bag of miracles, after we’ve made it, carried it, and tried to sell it ourselves, is a crime.  I have never ending ideas, and all of them are mine.  This plethora of work doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t miss one.  You cannot sneak in and take even one.  Each of of my original ideas is connected and builds to form another.  To steal one work is to steal them all, and any theft is a crime.  I had intended to help the world with my work, but my ideas must be respected.  You’d miss artists if they all hid themselves.  It would be a less colourful life.  Maybe it would be good for the fact that everyone would be less distracted and have to get to know themselves?  No shows to watch.  No music.  No plays.  No bedtime stories.  No beautiful homes and gardens.  Nothing.  Would you like that bland world?  Many artists have already gone on strike.

Thieves:   Turn around.  Go the other way.  You are like suffocating vine weeds that impersonate and eclipse beautiful trees.  Vines end up in vine jail.  Do you want that?  Fines and jail time?  Clean up your mess, learn, be a student, take a class, stock the shelves, provide basics for others, go to therapy, and pay for movies and books.  Figure out your own ideas.  Examine your own story and emotions.  There are endless jobs for you to make an honest living.  Don’t be greedy.  Be a minimalist.  Artists have to invent a space in the universe after inventing their inventions.  It’s nearly impossible.  I’m worn out.  Then, for you to come in, after we barely survive our own stories, and call our life….yours!??!?!?!?!  Insane. This is insane.  You didn’t write the book.  You didn’t paint the canvas.  What is the song about?  How did you come to that melody or colour combination?  You didn’t.  It had nothing to do with you.  We don’t know you, and obviously you don’t know yourself.  Thieves are lost.  If you want to inflict pain, punch a pillow.  Leave artists to their rights.  We have zero time to fight with you, nor do we want to.  We have endless lists to do.  We’re busy.  Now, you need to find something peaceful you can do, on your own, away from us.

The world’s forum has never made enough room for true artists.  Why do you only chase money?  It means nothing to your soul.  If you do not want to be only stuck with screensavers of chopped up digital versions of struggled-for water lilies, smirking Lisa’s, and bright tomato soup cans, then stop stealing.  You’ll be starving for new art.  We’ll have to keep it all to ourselves.  Original art is rare.  When is the last time you saw an original piece of art in someone’s home?  In someone’s home who didn’t have a lot of money?  Unless they are an artist, it’s rare.  Prints are prevalent and mostly mass produced junk, masquerading as art, dots coffee tables while off-gassing plastic pollution.  Corporate offices keep their one or two artist(s) in a cubicle somewhere in the airless sea of grey.  Those people faintly wish each day that their ideas will be used.  Design jobs are not even that.  It’s frustrating to not be able to do what your job title states.  After some fake enthusiasm and the trickle down/up the ladder occurs, they hear back that something new would cost too much.  No one would know how to make it anyways as they only reproduce the same poor initial items every season.  Why even hire them?  They love to boast of their in-house-artist as if they were displaying creatives in a zoo of rare talents.  Artists are some of the first to lay off during a cut.  Their talents are not being appreciated, or put to use, so they easily put them down.  Disgusting ignorance!  They didn’t even give them a chance to improve the company.  Art is not fluff.  The three managers of nothing are fluff.  The coffee-iphone obsessors, who stand around all day, are fluff.  People love the romantic idea of artists, but they don’t even know us or what we do.  People need to learn about art, artists, and art history.  Respect artists, our process, and our work.  If you don’t think that art is everywhere, wake up.  Art is everywhere.

I’ve had issues with idea thieves since I was young, and sadly I’ve had to hide my work.  I sit here, next to piles of unheard art, wishing their intent could be fulfilled.  I have only recently started to show the work I’ve been producing for the past few decades.  I’ve designed my work to benefit human and natural life.  Sadly, my infinite heart has begun to give up hope that anyone older than a child could be in their senses enough to absorb peace.  What these older generations have done to this world is tragic.  Peace is possible.  Let us be us, and you be you.  Not everyone can be the comedian.  Would you even want to be?  You can be happy just to laugh.  Believe me, being the laugher is much easier than the struggle of endless puzzles an artist navigates to solve each day.

Let us enjoy being us.  It’s already too much to have to run it all on the digital/business side after making the creative work.  Our brains are split.  Now, I do this…  Screens blast eyes.  I’d rather just focus on my journal and canvas.  There is nothing weak or unimpressive about artists.  We do it all.  We’d like to enjoy our own art and sense the magic that our work spreads as it travels the world.  Artists already don’t get paid what we deserve for our contributions to the world.  This needs to change.  At the very least, respect us and give us the pleasure of the feeling that our work makes a positive difference.  We also have the right to the time while we invent, and afterwards, when we release something.  It belongs to us.  Original work will always belong to the original artist.  I don’t seek external praise, but I do expect to be paid for my work and to have my rights protected.  We have a family to support and a company to grow.  My family will continue my company while adding their own unique collections.  We’re not going anywhere.  We protect my life’s work which is valuable to us and for the world.  My purpose is a calling to send out loving messages.  If you read my books, you will understand.  There are no other words in which they could be written.  They are my messages for the world.

Creatives and noncreatives can work well together.  A dreamer and the dream builder/supporter.  One has the idea, and the other readies the stage.  My husband and I are such a team, and we get along very well.  I design the house, and he builds it beautifully to last.  By the way, there is creativity in the functional.  Problem solving is very creative.  How can you think in a different way?

 

 

*Respect the rights of artists.  Put an end to publishing plagiarism.  Hire educated people to sniff out copycats.  Enforce copyright laws.  Stop AI from copying art, artist techniques, real people, and attempting to steal the soul because it will always fail.  There has already been a shortage for exciting original art in past decades.  What is our current culture even made of?  War and pollution.  It’s no wonder the unicorns hide.

*Remember, if you are in the audience:  Laugh, relax, and be happy…while you wait to enjoy observing our next invention.  ~ Amor Milagre

 

 

Oh, and take those guitars out of the vaults…  The previous owner would’ve been playing them, and making up new songs…probably about the silliness of humans.

 

 

 

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Health Awareness: End Clothing Chemical & Scent Pollution

Amor Milagre: Health Awareness: End Clothing Chemical & Scent Pollution
Amor Milagre: Health Awareness: End Clothing Chemical & Scent Pollution

Did you know that clothing companies are making the world sick?  There are hazardous, toxic chemicals in most clothing.  Research products before you buy.  Even the chemical safety certified clothes will often arrive heavily scented.  Look at all aspects of their system to truly know if the garments are non-toxic.

We have given up on clothing companies, even the ones who claim to be organic.  Everyone: We encourage you to tell clothing companies who send perfumed items to stop.  Ask before you buy for clear answers.    Ask:  “Are there harmful chemicals in your products?”  Research the best fabrics for the body.  Demand real transparency and respect for the consumer.  Return items, delete accounts, and send detailed messages requesting process and policy changes.  Prevent illness and chemical run off into nature.  Positive change is needed.  It is dire.  Illness is prevalent.  Illness is preventable.

Most clothing is polluted with PFAS, formaldehyde, pesticides, and other damaging forever chemicals.  Items are then sprayed with perfume to distract you from those chemicals.  It is a toxic mess.  Set boundaries.  We cannot even open the box.  We cannot even try it on to see that the designers are still not doing fit tests or proper colour matches.  Suitable clothing is hard enough to find without adding dangerous chemicals into the mix.  Yes, I worked briefly in fashion as a designer and did everything I could to make sure my designs would be healthy and fit real humans, but the big wigs wouldn’t adapt to my changes so I quit.  They wouldn’t even do one organic fabric!  They dare not order a single swatch.  They feared a health-conscious revolution, and that would cost them.  One must be proud of their work.  The toxic office sensory environment issues and constant sexual harassment also made up my obvious decision to leave.  The inhumane conditions and lack of pay/benefits for those making the products is a crime.  Children should not be the work force behind our daily outfits.  All of the industries need to be examined, held internationally accountable, and redesigned to benefit all involved.

The fashion industry is a foe.  They are quite terrible.  Research it.  The messages are unhealthy.  The warehouses are a dump.  The waste is expansive.  The lack of care is disgusting.  The human form, and how we move and live, is rarely taken into account.  The off-gassing from a roomful of unboxed shoes or outerwear is instantly damaging to the body.  Even the poison exuding from one box of shoes or one coat causes immediate issues.  Health is not usually even mentioned.  They take no pride in their products.  Department store shopping is like wading in a cheaply made sea of strings and tags.  Boutiques and designer shops overcharge for the same bad quality sewing and continue to pollute their items.  French companies lash out when you ask them to simply not perfume the items before sending, claiming that everyone loves their signature scent.   We don’t.  They don’t care.  We don’t count in their view of everyone.  They only count positive feedback and imaginary ideal customers.  Even the well known organic companies pollute their clothes.  They have sold out and have lost control.  Fast or slow fashion, it’s all the same junk if you don’t take care to not pollute your designs.  Storage is key as well.  What scents and toxins do products absorb in storage?  Every step in the process is important.  The packaging materials also need to be non-toxic and unscented.  Think of a shirt like a pear.  Are they grown organically?  How does it get from here to there?  Is it intact?  Is it still good when it reaches the customer?  We are absorbing our surroundings…and we do not want to ingest pollution.

Until adding heat to fabrics stops conjuring up clouds of toxic pollution, this is not a pleasure to help your clothes look and feel smooth.  It can only be an occasional thing to do with proper ventilation and a mask.  The fabrics, iron-steamer-dryer, detergent and packaging all need to be safe and healthy to use.  The iron itself emits toxins.  The production of these machines is toxic as well.  Remove the chemical coatings and replace plastic pollution with earth-friendly simple routines.  The amount of toxins in a fabric is obvious by the instant headache and difficulty breathing. Prevent illness and redesign the world to be a healthy life cycle.

This poison and poisonous mindset does not listen to those of us who sense danger immediately.  Personal safety is attacked by merely ordering a sweater.  Chemical and perfume allergies are real and painful.  Their products instantly cause sharp blinding migraines, an inability to breathe, and various painful long-term illnesses solely caused by air and chemical pollution.  Asthma, cancer, baby issues, and skin conditions are directly caused by these chemicals.  Highly sensitive people benefit the world.  We are the truth tellers.  Listen to us to prevent catastrophes.  The stores won’t change anything and do not tell the vendors of the customer’s concerns or returns.  Reviews online are false.  The truth is deleted.  You are wearing toxins.  It’s back to sewing for us, but really…where do we get the fabric, as all of this is true of the textiles industry as well?  They go hand in hand…spreading pollution as they ship poison around the world.

Redesign the world to be healthy.  We deserve clean unpolluted fabrics and clothing.

Dare to Care.  Love, ~Amor Milagre

 

 

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Grow Air: Rainforest Garden

Rainforest Garden, Amor Milagre
Rainforest Garden, Atelier Amor Milagre, painting studio, FSC Certified/Non-Toxic.

When every day feels like a century, and every lifetime is quite a painful one, an old soul in their 30’s remembers youthful plans to move to the rainforest.  There were too many years scraped by and deprived of my green family, The Trees.  I had a list of what to pack for the journey.  I planned for some sandwiches and water.  I wouldn’t need shoes, just instincts.  I do remember a lifetime when I did live there, long before they cut it down.  Full of life, it was!  Beautiful animals and fascinating plants.  Colours and shapes and senses…everywhere!  The jungle was alive itself, and her soul breathed for all of us.

The Jungle Book and The Baron in the Trees suited this long-limbed tree-climbing child.  Travel photography was on my list of daydreams, and I practiced every day.  My first tree dwellings were a success with tools and supplies tied to the higher branches, and me, safe and dry under the pine curtain designing my tree house.  After a while, they noticed I was missing and I was yanked back into the airless box of dust and heavily-scented cleaners.  A baby may be born healthy and strong, but modern homes, schools, and offices crumble our lungs and we reluctantly join the league of wheezing, sleepless dust bunnies.

New systems and ways of building need to include real air, but this means we need the basic right and resource of unpolluted air everywhere.  What kind of air purifier could safely tackle the century of toxins hovering above and around us?  You can’t merely vacuum up the clouds, seal them into the earth, and call it a day.  The poison is engrained in the soil, water, air, and in us.  Our cells are affected by pollution.  It keeps moving in a loop.  Many steps are needed.  The termination of polluting systems and objects is vital.  Plants are the enduring solution.  Years ago, my thesis to preserve the rainforest cultures and wildlife through awareness was presented, but the coffee-in-hand crowd wasn’t listening, as they were too busy pondering more ways to sexually harass me.  (A college review is coming up.)  The answers are obvious, but they need to be implemented and nature preserved.  Redesign the world to be healthy and sustainable.  Get back to nature.

 Although the ways of travelling are so much easier now (albeit stupidly pollutive), I haven’t been able to get there…to the land of leaves and green.  Too much illness, caused by the pavement crowd, delayed me.  And now…are there any leaves left?  Humans, pollution must stop.  Let the trees grow older than a hundred lifetimes.  There are other ways of doing all of the silly things you like without harming the entire world’s ecosystems and life cycles.  But, leave out the harmful things you think you need.  You don’t need them; that was just your fear talking.  Humans have forgotten that they are a small part of the puzzle.  When a tree is cut down, the whole world feels it.  You may not realize it like empaths do, but the loss is felt from the roots to the air, and we are less without it.

On mornings like these, when the rain soaks up the garden in a heavy hug, turning all in it a deep green, I remember my rainforest dreams…and I plant more seeds.

If I cannot move to the most natural places, I can make our place the most natural haven for wildlife and plants to live and grow, organic and unpolluted, and living all together.  I draw the branches.  I paint the trees.  I collect and spread more seeds.

Grow green goodness all around you…and let the babies breathe…

Love, ~ Amor Milagre

 

 

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Live Peace: Healthy Boundaries

Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design
Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design. Respect your neighbours and their property.

 

Setting, and keeping, healthy boundaries is a vital way to survive this strange modern world.  Boundaries have always been important to realize for every individual.  This is especially so in transitional times when war, violence, illness, AI, climate change, pollution, mental health neglect, and random storms of negative energy spin across the world causing devastation.  In the heat of all of this, it’s crucial to teach children about perspective and peace as you go about your daily life lessons.

Only yesterday, we had such a lesson thrown at us as young neighbours were presented with a choice of becoming ‘hoodlums’ or being creative people who can peacefully entertain themselves on their own property.  I was folding laundry and looked out at our flowers.  Watching the group of children choose to be negative was disheartening and created more unsafe conditions for the world.  The eldest was the leader and responsible for the care of several young ones.  This is why being a follower is not a good idea.  Think for yourself.  (Ironically, their family runs a daycare.)  Vandalism and rule breaking are misguided ways of asking for external acceptance.  Why seek it at all, in any form, if you lovingly accept yourself?  There are positive ways to be a part of a community if you feel excluded in your life.  Helping others by volunteering is one way.

Children thrive in a gentle structure.  Saying a simple ‘no’ to dangerous ideas shows that you care about their safety, their effects, and their evolving character.  Although illegal, the neighbour children’s mistake was the least of the day’s stress, and their source of inspiration was obvious.  What is that strange phrase, “Like father, like son”?  Children absorb.  Be careful what you send out.  Talk with children calmly about issues instead of yelling.  Suggesting alternative scenarios helps to prevent similar  issues.  Emotional health requires daily attention.  Boredom is often the thing that comes before trouble.  The only thing I’m ever bored of is violence.  I wish it wasn’t so predictable.  I don’t know how anyone can be truly bored for want of fun.  Use your endless imagination.  At the very least, be neutral.  The word ‘sorry’ has lost all meaning from a history of insincere use.  Live peace.  Prevent ripples of negativity by not sending them out.  Plant seeds of goodness instead.

Where does it all begin?  It is often said that everything is generational, but you don’t have to be the product of your environment.  Babies are not born violent.  They are love energy.  Every generation is responsible for replacing ‘inherited’ negativity with healthy, peaceful lifestyles.  Even if those who surround you are violent, you can choose not to be.  Hate breeds hate.  Violence creates more.  Wars ensue.  But if you choose peace each moment, and teach peace, you can inspire more positive mindsets and actions with yours.  It’s sad to watch young ones follow engrained paths of negativity.  Hop off of that path.  Everyone can choose for themselves, at any point.  Be free of other people’s cloaks of anger and denial.  They are not yours.

You were born from the universe.  You are love.  Think big.  Zoom out.  How do your thoughts, words, and actions affect your entire life?  How do they affect your family and neighbours?  Your children?  How do you affect the earth?  Track the patterns.  Respond, don’t react.  You have the choice of setting healthy boundaries to keep yourself safe.  Don’t be threatened.  Say no.  Stand up for yourself.  Report abuse.  The world needs to be a bully-free zone.  Peace is possible through self-exploration, health education, and the teachings and practices of neutral communication.  Respect and empathy are a relief to our world, an often cowardly world who lashes out before thinking.  Be brave and confront reality.  Inspect your mind.  Trace the threads of negativity.  Where are they coming from?  Cut the cords of violence.  Communicate new paths for your brain to learn and use first…and always.

You choose.  You are responsible for yourself.  Heal.  Let go.  Be free.

 

It’s been a week, and a lifetime, of forming healthy boundaries.  Making exceptions doesn’t put you in a place that you want to be.  Explore your development of healthy boundaries, and let them keep you safe.

Live Peace.  Imagine a respectful world.  We can use our time and energy for goodness.

We choose…Love, ~Amor Milagre

 

(These journal posts are excerpts from my self-health books.)

 

 

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Ban Fireworks

Ban Fireworks, Redesign Holidays to be Healthy, Amor Milagre Journal
Ban Fireworks, Redesign Holidays to be Healthy, Amor Milagre Journal

 

We suffer through more sleepless nights…all throughout the summer, especially around the dreaded day, the Fourth of July.  Something akin to the inescapable, unnecessary sounds and sensation of war, cannons and gun shots boom and shake our house for hours every night and without warning or an end.  Could it even be so, in this uncertain time?  This simulation of a bombing needs to be banned.  Anyone who has survived any kind of war needs calm healing, not more sense experiences of threats and danger.  Fireworks are highly insensitive and painful on many fronts.

There are more than ten thousand injuries caused by fireworks each year in the US.  Some people even die. Such was the case at last night’s firework show in Michigan.  Property damage occurs as well.  Increased painful hearing issues, migraines, buzzing nerves, PTSD, and no sleep (which causes more illnesses) are our common effects from fireworks, and that is from inside our home with the windows closed. Babies and children are crying in their beds, and their routines are disturbed instantly and for the long-term.  Pollution negatively shapes a baby’s entire lifetime. Sleep-deprived parents, with very early work times, are endlessly working more over time to calm the alarmed little ones while writing emails to town to ban fireworks.  The town never answers us.  They think it is their American right to pollute everyone whenever and however they like, no matter the effects.  Spin-off sound/vibration pollution from random neighbours goes on until early morning with no signs of stopping, despite the curfew.  This, as well as the horrible local gun shots, sound off all year.  Why is this allowed?  Why was this adopted?  Who can change it?  Who will?  When?  We needed it to never happen.  Loud, intense sounds and vibration trigger PTSD, deepen a sense of unsafe conditions, cause illness, prolong insomnia, and prevent healing.  As a young child, I was put on a river boat at night and had to endure being right under the fireworks for a long period of time.  They thought it was a luxury, but it was abuse.  This annual crippling nightmare caused permanent hearing conditions and chronic illness.  All of this is preventable pollution.  Stop the suffering.  Stop endangering whole cities.  Repay our sleep deficit.

To truly celebrate freedom means giving everyone the freedom of quiet peace to sleep and to do as they need, without harming others.  This annual toxic terror needs to stop.  It allows people who already behave disrespectfully to feel free to worsen and cause more havoc.  Give us freedom from pollution instead.  End war and remove symbols of glorifying war.  Free us from your violent mistakes.  Fireworks are also a terrible fire and safety risk, especially during these hot months when wildfires rage and pollute everywhere.  Air pollution is already at a dangerous high.  We don’t need more smoke.

Prevent illness and pain.  Fireworks are cruel to highly sensitive people, all people (whether they are aware or not), and anyone with hyperacusis, migraines, autism, empathic senses, synesthesia, any illness, sleep issues, and hearing or nervous system issues.  Everyone deserves quiet for sleep and personal sense of safety.

STOP!  Just flat out STOP.  Stop assuming people love fireworks.  We don’t.  Pollution is a hate crime against sensitive people, all people, and the Earth.  Positive change is needed.  There are already too many layers of pollution that need to be dismantled and discontinued.  Fireworks need to be extinct.  If you don’t think fireworks are loud, you may be deaf as many people unknowingly are.  The vibration does affect you negatively whether you notice or not.  The make and use of fireworks was never a good idea, and they are not even American.  Research how to safely dispose of fireworks as they are toxic and can cause toxic run off pollution for land/water.  Be considerate and respectful.  Let everyone sleep and heal.

Alternatives to Celebrating Holidays with Fireworks :  Listen to loud heavy metal with headphones for hours-make popcorn-and watch your screen saver explode in spirals (have fun healing that blinding headache, no don’t do that)….or….help someone who needs basic things.  Which one will fill you with a sense of love?  Also, a simple thank you to a person who has worked to do something positive for your country would be a good small way to appreciate how they made a big difference.  Having a quiet day of silence is also a wonderful practice to celebrate holidays.  Meditate peace.  More joy and excitement can come from meditating and resting than from overwhelming the senses with senseless blasts of fire in the air.  Let the birds rest.  Let yourself heal.

I make awareness in my books for replacing toxic traditions with healthy positive ideas.  Sage’s July calendar book page is mostly about this post.  Leona’s town has a lot of seasonal fun, but only in healthy ways.  What else could we enjoy during July?  So many summery things….  What can you think of?  There are endless imaginative ways to spend your holidays without harming others.

Give Peace Today. Make amends for harming the world.  Redesign your calendar to help, not harm.  Wake up to peace, because we’ve been awake for eons…

Wishing for Rain.  Love, Amor Milagre

 

Update:  After years of messaging various towns in Maine about the damages of continued pollution here, we have finally received a response.  No apologies or sign of humanity.  It was an automated response directing us to a page that we had already read.  It briefly shows the town rules and says a town vote would be needed to ban fireworks.  We have written back to them, and all levels of government, about the negative effects of fireworks and have requested a ban.  We’ve also pointed out that the voters would need to be educated on the facts.  As is it now, the vote would not be accurate as the voters are uneducated on this topic and are, like many people, de-sensitized and/or deaf from pollution.  This kind of broken useless loop system, designed to deter anyone in need of change, is in denial and only provides a dead end.

Governments need to wake up to reality before it’s too late for everyone and more large scale damage ensues.  Why isn’t the suffering of an individual enough to stop pollution?  It is a warning that can save others from suffering, too.  Look at reality.  All of the little choices effect the entire world.  It has been happening since the beginning of time.  The damage to us is terrible enough, but they won’t listen.  They hide from responsibility and no matter the issue, they refuse to change.  They have stolen the energy we would need to fight this and many other issues, and that is their plan.  We don’t want to fight anything.  We want to live quietly.  I don’t understand why humans make life as horrific as possible.  After surviving so much, where can one rest?  Where?  We asked the town to change the rules so we’re not being polluted because it’s their job to protect the people in the town.  We already have jobs.  We’re not asking for anything new.  Just stop.  Don’t add more.  Subtract.  Stop doing negative things.  Stop.

Maine is a state that I moved to hoping for peace and quiet, but instead I have had the most shocking danger and illness of my life due to the toxic, dangerous, sexist, stubborn old rules of the people who live here.  And…that is saying something as I have survived many impossibles before coming here.  They don’t care, and certainly not about women.  Now, we are stuck…again.  Does anyone other than us care…anywhere?  What the townspeople, who are our disrespectful pollutive neighbours, don’t grasp is that we haven’t slept due to their pollution.  They don’t even realize the damage it has done to themselves either, such as hearing loss.  We haven’t been able to do our regular routines as we need to, let alone rally an effective peaceful protest that could sway this town’s way of thinking to care about other people.  I send the town information, like this, but we are sick at home and cannot go perform speeches at town meetings.  We support our town by paying taxes, following the rules, buying things, and starting positive community programs for free.  Why can’t they support us by respecting our safety and health boundaries?  Why are fireworks, leaf blowers, gas-powered machines, guns, motorcycles and trucks, chainsaws, and many other pollutive practices not considered a public nuisance that can be reported and fined?  If someone broke into your home and banged pans together over you while you tried to sleep, that would be considered a viable issue.  This is the same, if not much more invasive and damaging.  To have to explain to children that they have no control over pollution and that we have to invent endless creative ways to get by is not right.  The fact that these are the laws of humans is revolting and disparaging.  This contradicts what we teach.  So…we write letters and emails.  This separates us from the town.  We moved here because it seemed like a good family community.  Nope.  Well, at least we have our beloved Nature.  No again.  Not allowed to be in it or enjoy it.  Too much constant pollution.  The humans have devastated our world.  Change it now.  It can be good.  We need nature to heal ourselves from the damage of pollution.  Preserve nature and all in, around, through, and under it.

America wants fighting.  They make you have to fight for your life every day and at every stage.  It is disgusting and damaging, especially when you need dire help.  We are just surviving every day’s endless and layered pollution caused by the town and it’s mismanagement of how people are allowed to behave.  They have taken the beautiful gift of nature and ruined it to the point that sitting in your own home is too painful to bear.  We planted flowers everywhere and cannot sit with them.  It’s too polluted.  Town outtings are rare, brief, and damaging due to pollution that prompts us to have to retreat home.  This is one of the least polluted places.  Think about that.  This pollution occurs every day of the year.  We’ve had to move many times because of this unnecessary pollution to our extreme detriment.  Where can we go?  It has cost us in every way.

*My message to you is:  What you choose to do affects everyone.  Are you helping or harming?  At the very least, be neutral.  No more fighting.  Listen and help everyone to have what they need.  Respect all kinds of people’s needs.  They may be different to yours, but they are equally important.  We need options and the freedom to make our own choices.  Stop forcing pollution into our homes, surrounding us everywhere, and making us ill for the short and long term.  If you think that you’re not affected by pollution, then you are simply in denial and are not aware of the effects.  It is not that you are not sensitive enough to feel it.  You need to wake up to reality and make changes for the better.  Our outer and inner ecosystems need repairing. Prevention, preservation, life cycle redesign, and healing are vitally important for our future.

Now, after another night of fireworks, baby cries, and no sleep, I am even more ill.  Getting everyone back to sleep will take months.  PTSD is quite difficult to counter.  I will leave you to examine the world’s continuation of negative choices and how you can make instant positive changes to improve daily systems and stop dangerous traditions for every neighbourhood and for all people.  We have noticed that just this week a few US towns have banned fireworks for this year due to the threat of wildfires, which is good, but can they be permanently banned everywhere based on all of their negative effects?

What you do matters to everyone around you.  Stop smoking.  Stop sexual violence.  Stop abuse.  Stop fighting, killing, and damaging.  Stop.  Learn how to deal with your mental and physical health in positive, neutral, and peaceful ways.  You can do this.  The world can easily be a safe, wonderful, natural place for everyone…if you can realize it in your choices.

 

 

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3 Tips for Authentic Romance

Amor Milagre Authentic Romantic Life Tips
Amor Milagre Design: Rose Cottage Sitting Room Spring Mantle

 

Good Afternoon.  Did you know that Peace is where Romance lives?  This post is an excerpt from my healthy lifestyle book, A Gentle Life by Amor Milagre.  I sense the world has long been in a tangle.  To unwind and release from this static, each one of us may gently be our true self and connect naturally.  This is how the universe may feel…just right.

1.  Awareness for the Senses

Feel your skin, your body functioning,  your heart exhale, and your electrons buzzing all around you.  Breathe in…and out.  Feel what you love and what you lack.  Listen and give.  Feel again.  Smile with your entire being.  Connect with the trees.  Feel their energy.  Connect with each other.  Send and receive loving energy.  This is you.  You are love.  Love your body, mind, heart, soul, energy, and daily choices.  Heal the past, be in the present, and open to the future.  Love the connections and find pockets of joy in how you can share and grow this love.  It’s infinite…and it’s always there…everywhere…waiting to be kissed up and hugged up and embraced fully with every spec in the universe.  Burst with love!  Let love accompany you during your day.  Consume love.  Breathe love in…and out.  Listen to love as your lullaby.  Dream love.  It feels good.

2.  Date Yourself

Before you can be present and emotionally in tune with anyone else, you can choose to be eternally in love with your inner and outer self.  Try out self dates.  Go to a variety of places (safely) and become aware of what you love.  You may be surprised what you didn’t know you could enjoy!  You can easily date yourself at home, too.  Even ten minutes is enough time to check in.  Explore new experiences.  Exercise in gentle ways.  What kinds of movement feel healthy?  Wander and sense what your soul connects with.  Take your time to know and feel and process.  Sort it all out.  Nourish healthy habits and memories, and let go of all negativity.  It’s too heavy to hold, so let go.  Adore your body and the mysterious and magical things it can do.  You are connected to everything in the universe.  What would you like to adorn your web with?  People, places, and nature that match your true energy will connect with you naturally when you are living as your authentic self.  Connect within.  The confidence, sweetness, and fun that you have when alone is felt everywhere by you being you.  This is attractive to yourself and the world around you.  This is where peace and romance live…within your authentic self.  You are all you need to feel wonderful.  Always stay aware of the messages from your inner self, your soul, and your body.  You can date yourself all your life.  It is important to keep up with this respectful relationship, especially when you have others in your life.  Communicate in a love language within and with others for a peaceful day.  You choose…everything.

3.  Express Yourself

Dancing to music you love, singing in the bath or shower, daydreaming, helping others, laughing and playing, crafting and scrapbooking, drawing and painting, exploring, sewing clothes and toys, acting and reading, inventing and building useful things with natural materials, sailing out with oars to float and unwind, sowing seeds and bulbs, playing instruments, writing creative stories and love letters, decorating, cooking and savouring, simplifying, walking in nature, swimming and climbing, being still, and meditating are just a pocketful of ways to embrace your emotions.  Be aware to not bother or neglect others while you are expressing.  Feel all of the emotions, process, and release.  This positive practice allows air to flow through your energy.  Your senses are set free, and you are open to experience this new moment.  What do your senses tell you?

For more gentle living, read my original book collection and these journal posts.  Listen with your heart.  It may tell you something very different than what you think you feel.  Listen….and love.

Love, Amor Milagre

 

Amor Milagre Authentic Romantic Life Tips

What is in your basket today?  What spills out into your journal?  Examine….and Live Peace.