What I Do All Day

I was in love with this shot of the shoes:

But they wanted  this picture

They're so awesome!

Now what?

I'm not a great artist by any means 

(and a super lousy photographer, so these photos don't do the color justice at all). 

I've been making these little cards for the last few months and really enjoying it. I made about six or eight more but I already gave them away and didn't think to take photos first.

Each takes about an hour and a half. 

But what the heck am I going to do with all of these?

A Sane Approach to Eating Organic

So, in other words, you don't have to spend all of your paycheck, just pick and choose carefully. Last time out I saw that organic and sprayed celery cost the same amount. Who knew?


I'm a little surprised that tomatoes aren't on the list on the left, I thought they required a lot of pesticides. (They sure do here in Seattle.)


God, I hate kale and collards, no problem with over consumption there...

Make Your Voice Heard!

Uh, on the other hand...

How to Have a Successful Sunday

First of all

Do some painting

Have a nice Yoga class

Cook something yummy

And rest after all that hard work

Irena Sendler. 1910-2008

Irena Sendler. 
1910-2008

A 98 year-old German woman named Irena Sendler died. During WWII, Irena worked in the Warsaw Ghetto as a plumbing/sewer specialist.

Irena smuggled Jewish children out; infants in the bottom of the tool box she carried and older children in a burlap sack she carried in the back of her truck. She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers wanted nothing to do with the dog, and the barking covered the kids’ and infants’ noises.

Irena managed to smuggle out and save 2500 children. She eventually was caught, and the Nazis broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely.

Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar buried under a tree in her backyard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and reunited some of the families. Most had been killed. She helped those children get placement into foster family homes or adopted.

In 2007 Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected. Al Gore won - for a slide show on Global Warming.

(Source: somelikeit-violent, via lovinganarchist1312)

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