DID YOU KNOW - You can find Gentle Pearls at the Te Atatu Penninsula and Kaukapakapa (Helensville) Markets just about every month.
 

Beauty:  Even in the most undesirable corner of the world, we can find beauty.  The beauty of a butterfly is no less diminished if it alights on the bars of a prison cell window or a flower in full bloom. 
It's wings in sunlight are still aflame, proclaiming it's joy of life on thousands of tiny scales.  One can uplift oneself in the most dire of situations by focusing on even the smallest point of beauty available.

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Is your 'Bowl' Perfect?

The Japanese have a beautiful art form called kintsukuroi.  When something special is broken, instead of trying to glue it back together, they seal it together with liquid gold.  Thus creating a new and beautiful piece of art.  We can see ourselves like the broken bowl.  We are whole in appearance, we have good days and bad, but the wholeness comes from all of those days, welded together with the gold of love, fortitude, good friends and so much more.  So today, recognise the wholeness that you are while acknowledging all that made you who you are.