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• "Stay together, friends Don’t scatter and sleep. Our friendship is made of being awake." ~ Rumi
• “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” ~ Marianne Williamson from "A Return To Love"

Biofuels made from grains are causing a massive domino effect across the planet, creating shortages and stockpiling of foods as well as taking up land and resources where grains for human foods were once grown.

Biofuels - a good idea? Are there other options? How long will it take to figure this one out?

Future of Food and Drink Industry Conference Keynote Speaker - Amazing videos are here

Times are very hard for a lot of people, why not “think outside the box” and figure out ways to help one another! It’s lame to think that we can only use cash (or plastic) to get what we need or want. Humans started bartering eons ago. We always have, but our new “economics” is offering us the opportunity to revisit ways to trade anew.

Drinkers in some pubs in England are being offered the chance to drink for no money down. But, it’s not free either. Instead of cash, they can barter their home-grown produce, fresh shot wild game and fish for free pints.

Anything that can be added to its traditional food menu (vegetables, herbs, eggs, etc, from the family farm) will be considered. It’s not an exact science, but with the amount of pints, meals or vouchers offered, in return linked to the size, quantity and quality of the items presented.

A sign on display inside the pub says: “If you grow, breed, shoot or steal anything that may look at home on our menu, then bring it in and let’s do a deal.” Some chalk boards give lists of examples of what they can use in their all day kitchens, serving these local grown goodies back to their customers for cash! Smart cookies, well “biscuits” in the UK!

HOW SAFE CAN IT BE?
A North Norfolk council environmental officer said: “We need to look carefully at how pubs can make sure what they’re doing is safe for customers and within the law. There is a difference between surplus game from a shoot and half a deer that may be a roadkill.”

ABC News just did a report on it tonight, click here and see the story.

And, you gotta love that the name of this pub is THE PIGS! I’ll have to visit on my next trip!

Hard times can slow things down and take us back to simpler times, and times when we actually depended on one another in good ways.

Think outside the box in your life, community or business life. How could you trade, barter or creatively move good energy around with others?

We’ve been in a crises for decades. How can such an immense issue as education, K-12 in particular, be so mute? Or, maybe the more important question is, “who” is keeping this issue mute?

An uneducated person is not prepared for and will not make it in our world. An uneducated generation of people will fall their nation. The USA is falling. Now. It’s falling. NOW!

Get the kids off tech-toys and into education.

Away from TV and into nature.

Talk to them. Spend time with them. Help them learn. Stretch their minds.

Find out where the schools in your district stand. Get your Strong American School Toolkits for parents, teachers and communities. Click here.

I give blood. I hope you do too!

After I gave my first gallon earlier this year, I received in the mail from the blood center a letter of thanks and a lapel pin signifying my contribution.

Maybe some people like and wear such things, and I understand that the blood center is happy I do my part, but I don’t need a pin; it’s clutter to me.

I took it back to the bloodmobile last week when I donated again and gave it to them to route back to their office - I also don’t need to spend postage returning it! and will not throw it out either of course, that is unnecessary trash.

Further, I just called their office, thanked them for their expression of gratitude and asked them to mark my file somehow signifying that I would rather not get these in the future. I hope they can actually do that.

TO DO: Feel free to let others know that you don’t need rewards, pins, name plates, plaques or whatever form some appreciation may come.

Yes, it’s wonderful being acknowledged and thanked, but using materials to make items that end up in storage and/or the garbage soon enough is not a good thing. Believe me, I’ve decluttered plenty on my organizing jobs as well!

TO DO: If you are in charge of “giving appreciation rewards/awards”, 1) ask what they might like, give options, 2) give them the option of not getting anything, but having the option to opt out, 3) maybe, for the cost of the token and postage, make an option to give that much in money/kind to a charity of their choice, or back to your own charity or cause. Options are a good thing.

Now, go give some blood!

WHAT?

You know these people right? Even the Pope changed this tune recently! ”

But, bottom line is, how can we think that we’re IT. The big IT!? That’s ridiculous! Arlie Petters, Professor of Mathematics, Physics, and Business Administration, Duke University says, “We don’t know what’s in 96% of the universe.” 96%! Heelllloooo!

“. . . to suggest that we’re alone [in the universe]
is excessively egocentric.”
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, PhD,
Director, Hayden Planetarium, Host of Science NOVA

If you want to hear the full statement of the pope, you can hear it on Radio Irish! Ahhh, those Irish-Catholics, they can say it all so lyrically toooo!

• Question everything.

  "The important thing is not to stop questioning." ~ Albert Einstein

• Kim Wolinski, MSW . . . . . . . . . . . "Dr. DeClutter"

  

• Raising our collective consciousness is our only hope.

  “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” ~ Albert Einstein
• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew." ~ Abraham Lincoln