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Etsy

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, December 04, 2005

Cookies & Yoga

On Yana's advice, I've stopped attending Guru Gita on Sundays. Perhaps that's not fair to say, she didn't tell me to not go, but rather to engage myself in activities which aren't connected to him. I returned to Sahja Yoga on Friday evenings. In the few months that I have been attending I've met some wonderful people there. This morning however, I had an especially strong inclination to go to Guru Gita, but after morning meditation made a decision not to go. Which was well as I spent the day with Megan making cookies and delicious vegetarian lasagna roll-ups. I remembered a place long ago where all my time was devoted to servicing my family. Times are much different now, as service has evolved into nurture.

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