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07/13/2025

Ok so this is from May 5th! I'm so terrible with posting regularly! Anyway, I was finishing up 2 degrees this past Spring and maybe that's why I was craving and eating licorice candy pretty regularly although I was also eating my high fruit diet. Long story short, I learned a very valuable lesson for the 50 11th time in my life because it wouldn't be the first time I ate refined sugar and fed a viral infection that was dormant in my body until it got what it wanted to thrive! Ended up sick with pneumonia first week of May! Pneumonia was worst than ANYTHING I ever had. I would choose COVID 10 times over having pneumonia once.

Anyway, treated it aggressively with Andrographis, Enzymedica's Immune Defense and Total Cleanse Lymph and then I found a packet of honeysuckle tea that I bought a few years ago and totally forgot about! I opened up the packet and I'm like "what the heck are these branches!". I was a little upset fam but never judge a book by its cover! I steeped a few of these honeysuckle sticks in hot water and FAM, LOOK AT THIS GORGEOUS MAGENTA COLOR!! Being mesmerized by this pink-purplish liquid was in itself healing. Anyway, I was down and out and treating the pneumonia for 4.5 days and by the evening of the 5th day I was back in class because ain't nobody got time to be sick for long with 12 credits of extremely writing intensive coursework!

Honeysuckle tea is implicated for: immune support, respiratory health, and detoxification. It is also known for its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Traditional uses include treating upper respiratory infections, fevers, and skin conditions.

I encourage you to research the specifics! You could also just drink it because it looks pretty! Ok, bye!

02/23/2025

Just wanted to say Happy Belated World Kombucha Day with a photo of a flavor that I had newly discovered on O'ahu in 2021. I often stage photoshoots with a newly discovered Kombucha flavor and it's always a bottle of GTs ( ) because after all these decades and after so many companies started producing and selling Kombucha, GTs is still the most creative, most innovative, most delicious and most healing kombucha out there! Nothing else comes close!

10/05/2024

Oh my goodness! So I'm 39 years old and I just discovered the existence of red okra today! I have traveled the world over and I just discovered this amazing phenomenon of nature in Hot Springs, Arkansas! How can anything be so perfect? Two of my favorites in life - the color red and okra - combined? This is not a joke fam! Next time I'll take video! When I move back to New York City, I MUST be able to get this there or I'll be profoundly sad😞 And apparently, there are other colors and I'm inspired to find out where I can find them!

04/23/2024

From a tiny fruit hall in Brazil end of March. That cherimoya-looking fruit is 🤌🏾

02/25/2022

So I'm used to going years without having access to one of my all-time favorite fruits but this time around i only waited a year!
I first tried yellow sapote/canistel/egg fruit several years ago (2015?) in Mexico and it was love at first bite 🥰
Last year February I was on Maui and someone happened to have had a canistel and offered it to me. I was elated 😍
Fast forward to February of 2022, I'm in Homestead, Florida and I'm at a huge tropical fruit store called and I run into an entire box of yellow sapote and of course this was the vegan icing on my vegan cake of a day that had already been full of so much magic, mystery and wonder (because, you know, we were on our way back from Coral Castle 😁).
I think I'll be putting forth a more deliberate effort to have my "cake fruit"(because it taste like cake) more often💛💛💛💛💛💛💛

02/14/2022

So blown away by this South Beach fruit stand!😍❤️😍❤️😍❤️😍❤️
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They also sell smoothies and juices!🥰
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02/02/2022

Yesterday's Chinese New Year - New Moon in Aquarius brunch 🍌🍎🍊🍓🥑🍋🥒🍅🥬🥗

08/18/2021

Now that I'm back in New York, I'm missing the tropical fruit that I can't get here in New York - like soursop. Soursop is one of my all-time favorite fruits but unfortunately I only eat it every couple of years when I'm in a tropical place where it grows. It was such a joy to have easy access to it on the Big Island of Hawai'i. I just had to wait for the Sunday market in Pāhoa and there was a lady who grows it who was selling it for $1 per pound i.e. really cheap (FYI for any Soursop lovers who can get to downtown Pāhoa)

11/23/2020

Kombucha appreciation post!!!

Just finished this bottle of liquid gold goodness but because that which nourishes our bodies can also be art and everything in this vast universe is connected, I sure did give this bottle of health and wellness a photoshoot before consuming it and transmuting it from liquid to energy in my body. I'm totally speaking like a tantrika right now 😁 Well, that's because I am a tantrika - a turmeric and kombucha and especially a turmeric kombucha-loving tantrika ☺️ and speaking of tantrikas, energy, transmutation, connection, the universe and such...did I tell you all about the One World Ta**ra Festival which is happening online a we speak? If not, how irresponsible of me especially because I'm teaching a class and guiding a special chakra meditation a lá spiritual hypnosis style Monday November 23rd and Thursday the 26th. You can find tickets and the entire schedule at www.ta**rafestival.online/amaku and should you feel called to join in on the explorations, education, ceremonies etc... do use the discount code Amaku25 to get 25% off of your ticket. You can find more details on the website as well as on my other page ***ic_life . I encourage you to follow me there!

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11/07/2020

I truly am grateful! Hawai'i has blessed me with access to an abundance of quantity and variety of exquisite tropical fruit...but I still miss mangos 😭
Mangos are $3-$5 for one over here in Hilo and on the east side of the island. No thanks. Looking for a hook-up over here. Who's growing? New York was so generous with the gigantic juicy affordable mangos and I really would like to this to be a constant - ripe juicy mangos in my life that I can afford to eat regularly that is. Somebody hook a sister up! Somebody in Puna or even over here in Hilo has a mango tree!

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