thinking green.

inspired by this project, I've decided to begin regular postings about thinking green. greg and I love food and, even more so, love it to be healthy, natural, local and organic. I came across this great site, called local harvest that I thought I would share. this site contains a national directory of small farms, farmers markets and other local food sources. it's user friendly and carries a wealth of information. also, I was browsing this great newly found blog (thanks to global tree) and found the link to baggu bags. these are perfect if I might say so myself and SUCH a better alternative to plastic or paper and, hello, who wouldn't want to carry around a few of these lovely colorful totes!? even better, they conveniently fold up to nothing so you can just stick them in your purse wherever you go. this will be good for me because I'm always forgetting my canvas bags when I go to the store so am forced to either juggle my goodies in my arms or go with the paper option. I'm already thinking of what else, other than groceries I can tote around with one of these. I'm fanatic about big colorful totes! happy savvy green shopping!!! :D

photobooth friday!

happy 1st photobooth friday of the new year! I'm delighted that my first posting has all of us crammed into the booth. I'm even more delighted that it's friday. even though this was only a three day week for me at work...it felt like a big fuzzy bad hair eternity!

california.

I'm going to close my eyes, listen to some joni mitchell tunes and picture myself driving -- south from humboldt on 101 through richardson's grove and along the eel. it's august, the windows are down, I have sun and a smile on my face and I can smell those big magnificent trees and the drying grass. missing my home.

sustainability.

I've been enjoying reading up on my usual and not so usual blogs these last few days, particularly to see what people have discussed around the 2007 year coming to an end and the visions, ideas and resolutions they have for what is to come. this evening I was reading the blog of one of my holiday ornament swappers (the one who made the oh-so-fabulous owl) and she presented her new year resolution, which, is actually an interactive design project called the global tree that will, over the year, beautifully unfold in her effort to promote environmental sustainability in a very creative way. well, you've just got to hop over there and see this blog for yourself. I LOVE this idea and find it very inspiring, which, is why I decided to spread the word about her brilliant little creation here. cheers to you colette for this wonderful project; it's already inspired me!

hello, two thousand eight.

"it's ordinary to love the marvelous, but marvelous to love the ordinary." - unknown

I've never really done the whole new years resolution thing, although, I like the idea. I try, rather, to make these kinds of things (resolutions) as often as they make themselves clear to me. on this first day of the new year though, I've been thinking a lot of my life and asking myself what I would resolve to do in the coming year. the answer that came to me was one that I distinctly remember discussing internally in my senior year of undergrad, live for the present because, the past is, well, the past and the future is an abstraction. I often find my head clouded by what might come in the future (thankfully I'm not one to live in the past) so here and now I'm resolving to keep my mind open and further my practices which connect me with the present in my body, mind and spirit: yoga, drinking a lot of water, cooking and eating good and healthy food, reading, photography and writing just to name a few. I've stumbled on SO many wonderfully inspiring people, practices, readings, etc. etc. in 2007 that I can only take each moment in each day of this coming year as an opportunity. I never know what I might stumble upon and, you never know, it might already be right under my nose. :)

I don't know how old my grandmother was in this photo, I believe it was taken while she was still in college - studying art (lucky and quite lovely girl). anyway, I can only imagine what she may have been thinking about her life at that point, not knowing what she might stumble upon.