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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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Saturday, February 04, 2006

Indian feast

Despite the dreary weather (and unwelcoming late-night hangover) today was a most splendid day. Megan had her first sleep over since we've moved and it's heart-warming to see her finally adjusting well and making new friends after a rocky change over in schools. Made myself a wonderful addition in friends too (Megans friends' mom). I treated them to Poonam's for a delightful Indian dinner after they returned from her friends house. Her new friend thinks it's *cool* that we're vegetarians and accomodated our meat-free plates by having a meat-free plate herself (all of her own choosing).

Thank you Ann for your comment :) Your sharings are refreshing and majestic.

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