[Sobieski at Kahlenberg Mtn.]

Lordington Lavender, Sussex, England

[LonePalm]

You should see the lavender fields in southern France. The smell is overpowering during harvest.

WWG1WGA

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[AZLiberty]

Thank you for the lovely Lordington Lavender. My friends and I have been talking up a storm about lavender this week, including two stories:

1. One of our group walked into a restaurant and found a mother in panic and her 12-year-old daughter having a serious allergic reaction (a breathing problem, apparently from pine nuts). My friend got the OK to share lavender oil with the girl. She wafted it under the girl’s nose and within a few minutes the allergic reaction became a minor problem.

2. A Costa Rican friend thought that essential oils were just a frou-frou girls’ thing even though his wife was a distributor. One evening he was assigned babysitting duty for his 7-year-old daughter. His daughter wanted him to watch a Disney movie with her, but at the same time there was a major soccer game on TV — and Costa Ricans love their soccer. Then he remembered that lavender helps people go to sleep. He rubbed some on her feet, and within 10 minutes she was fast asleep. Now he’s the largest distributor of essential oils in Costa Rica.