Rapture Organic Salon

09/26/2026

Healthy craving!

These Apple & Almond Butter Donut Rings are the perfect mix of protein, carbs, and healthy fats. They make a great afternoon snack and are perfect to pack into a lunchbox! Made with just 5 simple ingredients - crisp apple slices, creamy almond butter, chocolate chips, tart dried cherries, and sunflower seeds. Ready in just 5 minutes with no baking required! Perfect for back-to-school lunchboxes and after-school snacks! 🙌🌿💛

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09/19/2026

Someone told me once that grief is just love with nowhere left to go, and I don't think I understood it until I saw what grief actually does to an ordinary person.

There’s a woman I know who still sets an extra plate at the dinner table. Sometimes she catches herself doing it and just stands there, looking at the empty place. Forty years of setting the table for two doesn't disappear just because one person isn't sitting there anymore.

And maybe that's what grief is. The heart knowing someone is gone, while the hands are still waiting for them to come home.

But you see, we often talk about grief as though it's something that has gone wrong. Something you're supposed to work through, get over, eventually put down. But I'm not sure deep grief is a sign that something is wrong. Maybe it's proof that something was very, very right.

Nobody aches like that for someone who didn't matter. Nobody keeps setting an extra plate because they had nothing better to do. You do it because for years, someone belonged there.

I think about the people who feel embarrassed by how long they've been grieving. The ones who still cry unexpectedly. Who still reach for their phone. Who still hear a song and have to leave the room for a minute.

I wish I could sit beside them and say: you don't have to be ashamed of loving someone so much that their absence still hurts. the ache isn't a wound refusing to heal. It is love still looking for somewhere to sit.

Where there is deep grief, there was great love.

And perhaps that's the kindest thing we can say to someone who is hurting, not that it will get better, or that they need to let go.

Just that the size of the grief tells us something about the size of the love.

09/06/2026

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08/22/2026

Switzerland is one of the few countries that have taken a significant step in reconsidering routine mammograms. In 2014, the Swiss Medical Board recommended that Switzerland phase out its national mammography screening program. The decision was based on concerns that routine mammograms could lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatment, with limited evidence that they significantly reduced mortality rates. As a result, some regions in Switzerland have stopped offering mammograms as a routine screening measure.

08/12/2026

Organic cotton can help.

Organic cotton projects, like the one initiated by [Indian] textile manufacturer Arvind Ltd. in villages in the
Akola region of Maharashtra, are helping. In 2008, Arvind reported, “There has not been a single case
of farmer’s su***de in the area where we launched the project in February last year.”

The project, which follows organic farming practices and avoids the use of fertilizers and pesticides, has begun raking in cash
for farmers. And fair-trade labeling allows consumers and distributors alike to track the origin of the goods
to confirm that the benefit is actually reaching the farmers.
Currently, the project covers over 10,000 acres of farmland and involves working closely with nearly 1,200
farmers. The farmers are organized into self-help groups of 10-15 neighbors. The company is training the
farmers and providing specially evolved cotton seeds, since GE seeds are not allowed in organic farming.
The organic cotton produced in the region is certified by the International Control System and carries the
India Organic logo.

“We have not owned farmers’ land. We will pick up whatever they produce. They get payment within seven
days. They are happy about it. More than 42 percent of participants are small farmers, and only 30 percent
own 10 acres,” an Arvind representative said.

08/12/2026

Did you know?
250,000 Indian farmers have committed su***de
as a direct result of genetically engineered cotton!
Why? How could this happen?

In 1998, the World Bank’s policies forced India to open its seed sector to global agribusiness giants. As
a result, traditional farm-saved seeds have now been replaced with sterile, genetically engineered seeds
owned by Monsanto, which require repurchase each growing season. Though Monsanto claimed that their
seeds would bring down cultivation costs, a study by the New Delhi-based Research Foundation for Science,
Technology, and Ecology says the costs of raising cotton have actually increased nine times with the GE
seeds. This includes Monsanto’s $80 “technology fee” for every 2.6 acres of crops—a crippling expenditure
in a country with an average annual per capita income of only $450.

Depending on empty promises of high
yields and low costs from Monsanto, farmers turned to using the GE seeds, causing the conventional seed
to virtually disappear in just one season. Whereas conventional cotton crops depended only on rainfall and
cow dung for fertilizer, natural rainfall is often not enough for the GE crops, and farmers are forced to buy
expensive fertilizer and pesticides as well. This has led to poverty and severe indebtedness for the farmers,
often to moneylenders who charge exorbitant fees. One failed crop can put farmers into a downward debt
spiral with no hope of ever paying back their loans.

In a futile attempt to relieve themselves of debt, some farmers even resort to selling their own organs.
When these and other attempts fail to rectify their financial situations, many farmers commit su***de, often
by drinking the very pesticides they’re forced to use on their GE crops.
When MJFarm first reported on this
phenomenon in 2008, we were appalled to read that 25,000 farmers had committed su***de. But just
four years later, that figure has risen to a staggering 250,000!

In a nation where 60% of its 1.1 billion
population are directly or indirectly
reliant on agriculture, what some call
“GM Genocide” has been responsible for
a quarter of a million farmer su***des
over the past 16 years
(one su***de
every 30 minutes)
—the single largest wave of recorded
su***des in human history.

08/03/2026

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07/16/2026

Just had a wonderful facial at Blissful Radiance https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DTZPA1PgS/

04/30/2026

The Flowers happy and blooming their beautiful spectrum of color!