Past Boxes Revealed

  • July Theme: Vanilla - An Aphrodisiac for the Ages

    Anne Alloway

    Posted on July 21 2017

    July Theme: Vanilla - An Aphrodisiac for the Ages
    Vanilla Planifolia    Vanilla is an orchid! There are about 26,000 species of orchid, b...

  • Our June Theme: The Sun

    Anne Alloway

    Posted on June 15 2017

    Our June Theme: The Sun
    And still, after all this time, the Sun never says to the Earth, "You owe Me."
    Look what happens with a love like that,
    It lights the whole sky.
    - Hafiz

  • Our May Theme: Jasmine!

    Anne Alloway

    Posted on May 15 2017

    Our May Theme: Jasmine!
    And in the hour when blooms unfurl
    thoughts of my loved one comes to me. 
    The moths of evening whirl
    around the snowball tree.
     
    Nothing now shouts or sings;
    one house only whispers, then hushes. 
    Nestlings sleep beneath wings, 
    like eyes beneath their lashes.
     
    Adapted from A Night Blooming Jasmine
    By Giovanni Pascoli

  • Our April Box: Positivity

    Anne Alloway

    Posted on April 15 2017

    Our April Box: Positivity
    When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. 
    When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.
    Wendell Berry

  • Our March Theme: Honey - The Original Aphrodisiac

    Anne Alloway

    Posted on March 15 2017

    Our March Theme: Honey - The Original Aphrodisiac
    "For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life, And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love, And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy." 
    Pleasure XXIV, Kahlil Gibran