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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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Thursday, July 26, 2007

High-De-Ho Baby

Just over a year ago I received a salvia plant as a gift from a friend.

When I first received the plant, I hadn't the slightest clue how to care for it. It seems that being responsible for anything outside of your run-of-the-mill house plant is like learning a completely new language for me.

For months I over cared for the l'il guy. Tips would wilt. Turn brown. Fall off. New ones would grow. And the cycle would continue. What I soon learned was that I was over zealous in my guardianship/relationship/trust/control (universe giving me a big lol). Turns out, she likes to be sheltered but not smothered.

The moment I allowed her to do "her own thing", she began to grow beautifully. And even produced a second plant (I assume from a falling leaf).

Lessons learned from a plant: priceless


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