Opportunities To Raise Awareness Abound!

Here is an example of how you can shine your Light on Darkness, Ignorance, and awaken those who 'slumber' at the hands of 'Those Who Do Not Have Our Best Interest At Heart'

Hi (Teacher),

This weekend (my boy) accompanied me to the Natural Products Expo at the Anaheim Convention Center. We have friends who own a vegetarian restaurant, Au Lac, and we went both Saturday and Sunday as their guests.

(Your student my son) was very excited to try new things, and to take steps to reduce his waste to the environment. For example, he asked for a Chico bag for his laundry on overnights. He has many nights away between his father's home, and sitters and friends. Every time, his dirty clothes come home in a plastic grocery bag. Now he has a reusable cloth one that takes just as much space as a plastic one. (As you recall, he was very concerned about Maud Fontenoy's '8th Continent' and wants to help keep plastic out of the oceans.)

The little blue towel is going to help him save eight full size garbage bags of paper towels. That's how much each person uses a year. And paper doesn't compost well according to the company--he're their link--http://www.peopletowels.com. In Japan, everyone uses these, and paper towels are not provided in public restrooms. He said today you said 'don't be too weird; I understand about the soap (he has eczema and reacts to the school soap) but I don't understand about the towel' and told him to take it home. I thank you for this wonderful opportunity to raise your awareness and also to look into potential cost savings for the school!

I hope you will enjoy learning about this product, and perhaps consider in the future, when you are more familiar with it, supporting the spirit of the movement to save our precious resources on Mother Earth.

Aloha and Mahalos,

Namaste,

Peace,

(Reiki Doc)

P.S. You can take the girl out of Berkeley but you can't take the Berkeley out of the girl! ; ) B.S. Chemical Engineering 

The Garden

I grow a stubborn garden. It was inspired by the beautiful gardens of Villandry in France.  It was also inspired by my Italian grandparents who had orchards and gardens for as long as I can remember.

My garden is only a 12 x 12 foot plot I hacked out of the shrubbery adjacent to my back yard cement patio. I put a little fence around it, the kind you buy in two foot sections at the gardening section of the hardware store and it about one foot tall.  The soil is clay. There is not much light. I can grow tomatoes and chard, but I have attempted radishes, turnips, lettuce, blackberries, blueberries, carrots, pineapples, celery, brussels sprouts, cabbages, and arugula. Even the flowers I tried to grow withered. For eight years I have been at it, pulling weeds and planting seeds and talking to them to grow. (I give Reiki too)

The garden is also where I compost all of the non-meat and non-dairy wastes from my kitchen. I compost French style, with a hole in the ground. Actually three--a fresh one, an older one, and the oldest which has the fresh composted material.  I have composted my Christmas tree, any clippings from the front yard (which grows lovely flowers), egg cartons, and shredded paper. And always the coffee grounds, too.

One day, while working in the garden, I asked with my heart, 'Gaia? What can I do for you to help you heal from all of this pollution?'

The answer nearly knocked me over! 'You have done more to help me with this garden than anything else you could ever do.' There was an intelligence and a presence to that response that was strong and steady. 'Okay then' I answered, and I set about my work, thinking that Gaia likes fat nightcrawlers and beetles, the ones who compost the food.

Sometimes I get backed up, and I put small plastic buckets of food wastes out on the patio until I can put them into the compost piles. Sometimes when I am busy there can  be like, eight small buckets until the weekend. Something appears to show an interest in these buckets, and it is not a rat but I am not sure what. (there is no poop around the buckets).

On New Year's Eve, I learned who it was:

I did not know they could live in the neighborhood!

So even if it is only a hummingbird feeder (I have those too), a fountain (the birds like the water), a bird feeder (had one in medical school), or a compost pile, little lives can depend on your lovingkindness.
Start helping Gaia today. Just ask. She'll listen. And you might be surprised at Her reply.

Namaste,

Reiki Doc