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Thursday, December 29, 2011
National Chocolate Day
Image courtesy of: paloetic
Now here is a holiday I can CELEBRATE!!!!!! Oh yum! Well...sort of.....being diabetic, I have to be careful about my sugar intake. However...I would rather have a small bite of the REAL STUFF.....organic, "Fair Trade" dark chocolate......than a bagful of the "other stuff ".
My love affair with chocolate goes back, WAY back. When I was in the 2nd or 3rd grade, a friend of mine introduced me to the candy counter at a local shop. I was hooked. So many choices! And back then, a candy bar was a NICKEL! I remember when I was older, sneaking to the drug store to buy my "stash" since chocolate & candy was forbidden in our home. Thus began my lifelong struggle & addiction to sugar. Rolos & Milky Ways had me by the throat. Their smooth creaminess tempted & seduced me. Chocolate.....my DRUG of choice. Little did I know that my guilty pleasure was most likely at the expense of children held in slavery on cocoa farms in West Africa.
It has taken me years to break that addiction. So when I do indulge in a small taste of chocolate, I make sure it is high quality, organic, "Fair Trade" chocolate...now that I have learned about the chocolate "slave trade."
Here are some resources to help you find out about it yourself:
Stop Chocolate Slavery
SlaveFreeChocolate.org
Please.....for the sake of the children.....choose "Fair Trade" chocolate.
Now here is a holiday I can CELEBRATE!!!!!! Oh yum! Well...sort of.....being diabetic, I have to be careful about my sugar intake. However...I would rather have a small bite of the REAL STUFF.....organic, "Fair Trade" dark chocolate......than a bagful of the "other stuff ".
My love affair with chocolate goes back, WAY back. When I was in the 2nd or 3rd grade, a friend of mine introduced me to the candy counter at a local shop. I was hooked. So many choices! And back then, a candy bar was a NICKEL! I remember when I was older, sneaking to the drug store to buy my "stash" since chocolate & candy was forbidden in our home. Thus began my lifelong struggle & addiction to sugar. Rolos & Milky Ways had me by the throat. Their smooth creaminess tempted & seduced me. Chocolate.....my DRUG of choice. Little did I know that my guilty pleasure was most likely at the expense of children held in slavery on cocoa farms in West Africa.
It has taken me years to break that addiction. So when I do indulge in a small taste of chocolate, I make sure it is high quality, organic, "Fair Trade" chocolate...now that I have learned about the chocolate "slave trade."
Here are some resources to help you find out about it yourself:
Stop Chocolate Slavery
SlaveFreeChocolate.org
Please.....for the sake of the children.....choose "Fair Trade" chocolate.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Unlock the Door to your Dreams ~ I Dream in Purple
Etsy Treasury Curated by emily
HGTV Treasury Challenge 2011~Color of the Month~Grape!
When I was a young girl, my room was decorated in PURPLE! The walls were painted a lovely medium shade of purple. My twin beds were covered in white ruffly spreads with purple roses. I loved my room ~ it was a restful, dreamy, inspiring sanctuary! I still dream in purple.....and remember those lovely hours of daydreaming in my purple room.
HGTV Treasury Challenge 2011~Color of the Month~Grape!
When I was a young girl, my room was decorated in PURPLE! The walls were painted a lovely medium shade of purple. My twin beds were covered in white ruffly spreads with purple roses. I loved my room ~ it was a restful, dreamy, inspiring sanctuary! I still dream in purple.....and remember those lovely hours of daydreaming in my purple room.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Plastic Pollution = ART
Video from KarmaTube
Richard & Judith Lang have inspired me! I so admire their commitment to our earth & their vision of bringing BEAUTY out of mindless, thoughtless UGLY pollution.
I challenge YOU this week to go through your rubbish bin and create something BEAUTIFUL! Email me your creations & I will post them next Sunday.
"I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use."
Mother Teresa
we have ravaged what was good.
Using more than what was needed,
taking everything we could.
We have changed the gentle order
you intended for the earth.
Now we humbly ask the wisdom
to be part of its re-birth."
I challenge YOU this week to go through your rubbish bin and create something BEAUTIFUL! Email me your creations & I will post them next Sunday.
"I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use."
Mother Teresa
"But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom — a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom—and all of us are involved in it."
Wendell Berry
we have ravaged what was good.
Using more than what was needed,
taking everything we could.
We have changed the gentle order
you intended for the earth.
Now we humbly ask the wisdom
to be part of its re-birth."
Cathy Yost, Prayer For Creation, 2001
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Richard & Judith Lang's ART:
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Monday, October 3, 2011
Every Leaf Speaks Bliss to Me.....
"Every leaf speaks bliss to me,
Fluttering from the autumn tree."
Emily Bronte
Autumn is so spectacular! The countryside painted so gloriously! I love everything about it.....the cool, crisp days & even colder nights.....pumpkins, apples, brightly colored leaves, the smell of woodsmoke in the air.....hayrides & harvest carnivals.....oh! that it could ALWAYS be Autumn!
Join us for the Viroqua Harvest Moon Celebration & Parade this Saturday!
Starting at Noon: arts/crafts & delectable foods can be found at Eckhart Park. At 2pm: A human-powerd puppet parade down Main Street! The theme of this year’s parade is "The Common Thread". After the parade, join us back at Eckhart Park for a pageant featuring the parade puppets, a square dance sponsored by Driftless Folk School, and musical performances. Also featured will be the Infiamati Fire Circus!!!
Here is a peek at last year's parade:
Sunday, September 4, 2011
"..... these are a few of my favorite things!"
....."these are a few of my favorite things".....found on Etsy.com
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