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Submitted by OperaGirl on Sun, 12/31/2006 - 5:33pm.
I have a love/hate relationship with this time of the year. Maybe hate is too strong of a word. I just always feel a little sorrowful that the year is over. Like I am saying goodbye to an old friend. Yet at the same time, I love the feeling of a new beginning. I love that I feel so invigorated to set new goals for myself. I love the motivation that comes to clear out all the old clutter from the last year - both mental clutter and house clutter. I love the promise that the new year brings. The chance to try again - to strive towards living the life you want to live. Here are just some of my resolutions/goals for 2007! *Material things - Before I buy something new - Can I make it myself? If not then try to find it used first, then local, then access whether it's really a need, then big box store. *Get back on my budget! I have one but I'm lazy about it and I let myself cheat. *Destroy dependency on one convenience food item a month (even if it's an organic convenience food! I always justify myself with that). Either figure out a way to make it myself or get rid of it all together *Vegetable garden!!! Start planning NOW! *Continue to teach my children kindness and the importance of walking lightly on the earth. *Tackle the clutter that lurks in my bedroom closet and under the bed! Banish it and never let it return again! *Find and stick with a menu planning/grocery list system (I think I've created it! It's sad that menu planning excites me so.) *Be kinder to myself. Don't be so hard on myself. Take time for myself.
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Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Mon, 01/01/2007 - 10:42am.Inspiring
Submitted by Sarah on Tue, 01/02/2007 - 5:42am.A really really really good book on gardening is Square Foot Gardening. Turns out that most of us do it all wrong, we get excited and overplant seeds, then get discouraged when we can't keep up. Square foot has great ideas on how to plan in advance and only grow what we need. Plus it is sorta like menu planning!
I try to err on the side of
Submitted by OperaGirl on Tue, 01/02/2007 - 9:54am.I try to err on the side of planting too much because I am known to kill plants simply by looking at them. When I carry a new plant out of a store you can just hear the other plants saying "dead plant walking".
“Tell me, what is it you plan on doing with your one wild and precious life?” ~ Mary Oliver
I like them all, but I
Submitted by Mike on Tue, 01/02/2007 - 7:53am.Also, I am probably too kind and easy on myself. I don't give myself a bad time about what I eat. Some organic, some locally grown, little meat (poverty diet, meat is kind of spendy), a lifelong love for pastry of any kind, nothing better than a good mixed green salad.
Clutter and I co-exist. I like the profusion and wild vegetative madness of gardens run amok so I tolerate a significant amount of clutter. That's a personal decision. I love the look of a zen garden and the simplicity of stark interiors, but I have never been able to create and/or maintain either. Stuff, books, loose screws, musical instruments, keep finding their way into the homestead and a surprising number of them seem to settle right in. Some get donated to the Timberland Library after a respectful period of time in residence. I am currently without an accordion, the last one went east with a traveling african troubador who passed through the homestead and proved he could play the thing, so I figure the clutter level is about right. Two accordions in the home? Time to cut the possession level a bit.
Accordions are good barometer for clutter control in America. Zero accordions - good discipline. One accordion - a little self-indulgence. Two accordions - whoa, get a grip, time for a garage sale.
I think there is good
Submitted by OperaGirl on Tue, 01/02/2007 - 9:31am.I think there is good clutter and bad clutter. Accordians fall into the catagory of good clutter in my mind - we have a few different musical instruments at our house. Scraps to be used for art, sheet music, little odds and ends from nature my kids have brought me, books...good clutter. Clothes I haven't worn in years, papers I have no need for, a lamp that is broken that I'll never fix...bad clutter.
“Tell me, what is it you plan on doing with your one wild and precious life?” ~ Mary Oliver
Oh and this month I am
Submitted by OperaGirl on Tue, 01/02/2007 - 9:33am.Oh and this month I am destroying my dependency on CEREAL!!! Way to pricey for little in the way of nutrition. My kids will eat 2 -3 bowls each a morning. Yikes! So we are going to all oatmeal (bulk) with dried fruits in it for sweetness and eggs and stuff. They couldn't care less - it's me overcoming my laziness that is going to be the challenge!
“Tell me, what is it you plan on doing with your one wild and precious life?” ~ Mary Oliver