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An online marketplace for selling and buying all things handmade!

It's like shopping at the artists market, but from your own home. I discovered the website just in time for Christmas and along with my trip to Blue Banana Market in Toronto, have managed to get almost everyone on my list home made gifts.


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Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. The Question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we breathe can be a source of joy.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. ... Thich Nhat Hanh


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Sunday, September 04, 2005

Know Who You Are

Something I have been contemplating over the past little while is what am I going to do with my life. What course best brings me to my bliss.

Before I got all caught up in giving my power over to another, I had a vision of teaching children the art of meditation. When Dylan, Megan and myself were sitting for meditation and I would guide them through the process I saw an enormous change in both there energy levels directly afterwards. We spent alot of time cultivating love in our hearts for others and ourselves through loving-kindness meditation. These were moments I found great joy and meaning in my life.

Yanna brought up my need to nurture. What was it that I wasn't getting in my life that made me seek out someone who was so dependent and needy, both emotionally and financially. What I came up with was I felt a sense of accomplishment, I felt like my life had meaning during those times that I was taking care of others. This explains my job choice too. I suppose what I need is to redirect this to something that best serves the greatest version of Who I Am.

I think I am going to re-evaluate this option.

posted by I Am This at 12:12 AM

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