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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.


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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Tuesday, September 27, 2005

The Magician

I met a man not too long ago, I can’t remember his name. I saw him again today. I remember he told me when we first met that he was a magician. That he could make anything disappear (he proceeded at this time to try to make some coin disappear up his sleeve). He was an in the flesh, life size goofy.

Today he approached me and we talked for quite some time. He invited me to a party he was having at his house on October 8, “Did you know 8 is the eternity symbol?”, he asked. Yes, I did. This party was going to be a Houdini style party. Freaky magic tricks and death defying stunts. Apparently, he has a $600,000 home up the street from my work, which has 4 hot tubs and was designed with secret passages and all sorts of weird things.

Our conversation was about many different things yet all about one. He talked and talked and talked. I listened. Sarah actually got up and left because the depth of the conversation was making her uneasy. He reminded me a lot of Ian when he was going through his spiritual awakening. The stories he told me would seem absolutely outlandish to anyone else who listened and most would probably recommend he be paying a long visit to the pysch ward.

He wrote down his number for me and shook my hand goodbye and squeezed rather firmly. I felt a crawling sensation, like an army of ants run up my arm. I looked at my arm and he whispered, “You too?” Less than a half hour later I started to feel a compressing feeling in my solar plexis area. Then I could feel it expanding, almost like it was going to burst. And shortly after I felt exorbitantly tired. Things are fine now though. There was definately an exchange of energy between the two of us.

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