Last Sunday I met a friend for breakfast. We live just blocks away but had not seen each other in months. "April is the hardest month," she said. Indeed. DYK that the suicide rate increases in April? Why? It's Spring! New season, new life, new growth! In many places Spring in the form of visible new life comes later, but in April because it's Spring, people gain energy, physical energy, they did not have during the languid Winter months. So now they can act on that depression

Yesterday in the fourth meeting of the Core Shamanic Peace Laboratory, as every meeting, we journeyed to find the answer to what we can each do in the coming week, here in our daily Ordinary Reality, to aid in peace efforts during the invasion of Ukraine. This week's answer came quickly to me: #flowersforpeace. I've been posting occasionally on my personal social media pages, as well as my accounts associated with Hjertehagen Shamanic Services, photos of flowers I've taken, m