Submission for one single impression prompt for January 3: skin   Visit for a variety of interesting poetic interpretations of this prompt.   pre-dawn iditerod snowballs, ice and salt  musher's wax saves G-dog's paw-skin So all is not lost.   flayed alive $10 trillion national debt Protective barrier is ...

Here's an amazing website and video 'The Story of Stuff''  by Annie Leonard, who spent 10 years researching the issues of the production/consumption patterns of western culture.  It's well-worth  20 minutes to watch the video.  While doing so you can also look at th workbook and other features on ...

SOULFUL KITCHEN!   Living simply is not about rejecting the material comforts in life.  However, it does involve unburdening our lives, living more lightly with fewer distractions – whether they are material things, activities or relationships.  It means letting go of anything that interferes with a high quality life. ...

  Plastic Proliferation: Greening Blog “Trust is the decision to keep seeing the deeper path of life and committing ourselves to it, in active partnership with guidance.  Trust is interaction.  We are doing what we can do, Spirit is doing what it can do, and our lives are the amalgam of these energies.” –from Life’s Companion ...

“Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life.  It means that we are choosing to live our daily lives with some degree of conscious appreciation of the condition of the rest of the world.”  - Duane Elgin, contemporary writer on voluntary simplicity   This blog continues as my personal ...