Dear Friends,
Listening to the toads constant echo... when they die down, then the crickets drown out the silence. I can't even tell you how attracted I am to the night, the calm moon, the orchestra of night critters playing a melody called "Faithfulness."
Today was a very fun day! I got to go to the beach with my friends, and go body surfing. The waves were awesome for it. Then we moved North and went SUPin for a little bit. I caught some good waves, and my friend said I did well.
FUTURE PLANS: are waiting to be made, I am finding out when I start school after April 6. This will free me up to make some summer plans. You know what the coolest thing is? That anything is possible. I could end up anywhere. All I know is that I need to be here in May and in Sept. May, we have the Indian pastor staying with us. I am hoping that the Dinner/Discussion will be a blessing for him, as well as us. Then I am going to see the swell season play in concert. yay! September, I will have a new nephew, so I MUST be here for that one.
Where do I see myself in 10 years?
I would like to be confident in my ability to handle all things, accepting that the difficult/unpleasant things shape me into a women, who is respected and appreciated
Be married with a kid or 2.
Teaching dance/ yoga out of my house, and having a budding pool of talent.
Be sexy and skinny, looking and feeling full of vibrant energy
Building and built a rad recycled house for dog or kids house.
Living on the beach.
Loving myself , husband and family with all I have
Surfing, running, dancing whenever I want
Just living the life I live now, with my own family to share it with.
That would be good
If I can be vulnerable, sometimes I feel sad that I am where I am right now. Like the grass is greener on the other side. I know the truth, right here, and right now is the safest place I could ever be, because it is in the center of God's will.
THANKFUL FOR...
Karis
My virginity
The full moon
Zoila's wrists feeling better
Lily's cute self
The good waves today
Seeing Tim
Hugging Jules
Feeling shy when I start to like someone.
Taking a walk
Eating ice cream
dinner with gloria and dad
dad having a good strong day
did I say the night and the moon?
sitting out side remaining thankful for the life God's given to me
Clean hair
wheat grass
love
health
prayers
joy
forgiveness
meridians
stretching
Quite a bit!
Alright, time to go!
Blessings
Lindsay
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Yummy Smoothy Recipe ;~)
Blue-Green Smoothie for One
Yield 24 ounces/710 mL (1 large serving)
This easy-to-make smoothie for one can be sipped over the course of a morning. If you find the deep blue-green color created by mixing mineral-rich kale and antioxidant-rich blueberries unusual, serve it in a mug rather than a glass.
Nutrition Note
A Blue-Green Smoothie delivers 7 grams of protein plus more than 20% of your day's supply of calcium, magnesium, and potassium, and six B vitamins (folate, niacin, pantothenic acid, riboflavin, thiamin, and vitamin B6,). Furthermore, it supplies your recommended intake of vitamins C and K and beta-carotene several times over.
2-3 cups (500-750 mL) coarsely chopped kale, firmly packed
1 1/4 cups (310 mL/180 g) fresh or frozen blueberries
1 large ripe banana, broken into chunks
1 medium-size orange, coarsely chopped
1/2-1 cup (125-250 mL) purified water
Combine all of the ingredients in a blender and process until smooth. Add water as needed to achieve the desired consistency. Serve immediately.
Yield 24 ounces/710 mL (1 large serving)
This easy-to-make smoothie for one can be sipped over the course of a morning. If you find the deep blue-green color created by mixing mineral-rich kale and antioxidant-rich blueberries unusual, serve it in a mug rather than a glass.
Nutrition Note
A Blue-Green Smoothie delivers 7 grams of protein plus more than 20% of your day's supply of calcium, magnesium, and potassium, and six B vitamins (folate, niacin, pantothenic acid, riboflavin, thiamin, and vitamin B6,). Furthermore, it supplies your recommended intake of vitamins C and K and beta-carotene several times over.
2-3 cups (500-750 mL) coarsely chopped kale, firmly packed
1 1/4 cups (310 mL/180 g) fresh or frozen blueberries
1 large ripe banana, broken into chunks
1 medium-size orange, coarsely chopped
1/2-1 cup (125-250 mL) purified water
Combine all of the ingredients in a blender and process until smooth. Add water as needed to achieve the desired consistency. Serve immediately.
all that matters is what you leave behind.
Howard Lyman, "The Mad Cowboy"
We are delighted and honored that Howard Lyman, author of Mad Cowboy, a former cattleman and outspoken vegan activist will be one of our key speakers at this year's 5th Annual Vibrant Living Expo and Culinary Showcase August 21-23!! His journey to becoming vegan is a fascinating one. Here's what he has to say:
"As a fourth-generation family farmer in Montana for almost 40 years, I speak from a background of personal experience when I say that chemically based agricultural production methods today are unsustainable, and therefore ecologically disastrous. My experiences range from working in a large organic dairy to raising registered beef cattle to owning a large factory feedlot. I have farmed thousands of acres of grain and reproduced a herd of over one thousand commercial beef cows. In addition to raising cows, I have raised chickens, pigs, and turkeys. I have also grown crops such as wheat, barley, oats, corn, alfalfa, and grass.
I was involved in agriculture at a time when the call dictated getting bigger and better or getting out. I was educated in modern agriculture, and I can tell you from firsthand experience -- it is not sustainable. I followed all the modern advice and turned a small organic family farm into a large corporate chemical farm with a thousand range cows, five thousand head of cattle in a factory feedlot, thousands of acres of crops, and as many as thirty employees. I saw the organic soil go from a living, productive base to a sterile, chemical-saturated, mono-cultural ground produced by my so-called modern methods.
In 1979, a tumor on my spinal cord caused me to be paralyzed from the waist down. That changed my life forever. I promised myself that, whatever the outcome of the surgery, I would dedicate the rest of my life to doing what I believed to be right -- no matter what changes that necessitated.
The period before and after the surgery gave me much time to think about the changes resulting form my methods of farming. Convinced that we were going the wrong way, I decided to become a voice for the family farmer and the land. In 1983, I sold most of my farm and started working for farmers in financial trouble. This led to my working for the Montana Farmers Union and from there to Washington, D.C. as a lobbyist for the National Farmers Union.
For five years I worked on Capitol Hill for America's family farmers. In that time we had some small successes, such as passing the National Organic Standards Act. But even after the act became a law, it took the administration several years to allow funds for its implementation. I became convinced that the changes needed had to come from the producer and the consumers at the grassroots level. Until that alliance is put into play, the big money interest will continue to control public policy in the Congress of the United States.
The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist it. Are we so attached to the dietary fallacies with which we were raised, so afraid to counter the arbitrary laws of eating taught to us in childhood by our misinformed parents, that we cannot alter the course they set us on, even if it leads to our own ruin? Does the prospect of standing apart or encountering ridicule scare us even from saving ourselves?
That prospect intimidated me once, and I can only wonder now what I was frightened of. It's hard to imagine, now that I'm a hundred thirty pounds lighter, infinitely healthier, more full of life and energy, much happier. Now that I have vegetarian friends wherever I go, and feel part of a movement that is not so much political as it is a march of the human heart. Now that I understand how much is at stake. Now that I've come to relish shaking people up.
I would love to see the meat industry and the pesticide industry shaken up, too. I would love to see feedlots close and factory farming end. I would love to see more families return to the land, grow crops for our own species, and raise them organically. I would love to see farm communities revive. I would love to know that I've wandered into my nation's heartland by the sweet smell of grain and not the forbidding smell of excrement. When you can't take it with you, all that really matters is what you leave behind.
Found in Living Light Culinary's E-newsletter.
We are delighted and honored that Howard Lyman, author of Mad Cowboy, a former cattleman and outspoken vegan activist will be one of our key speakers at this year's 5th Annual Vibrant Living Expo and Culinary Showcase August 21-23!! His journey to becoming vegan is a fascinating one. Here's what he has to say:
"As a fourth-generation family farmer in Montana for almost 40 years, I speak from a background of personal experience when I say that chemically based agricultural production methods today are unsustainable, and therefore ecologically disastrous. My experiences range from working in a large organic dairy to raising registered beef cattle to owning a large factory feedlot. I have farmed thousands of acres of grain and reproduced a herd of over one thousand commercial beef cows. In addition to raising cows, I have raised chickens, pigs, and turkeys. I have also grown crops such as wheat, barley, oats, corn, alfalfa, and grass.
I was involved in agriculture at a time when the call dictated getting bigger and better or getting out. I was educated in modern agriculture, and I can tell you from firsthand experience -- it is not sustainable. I followed all the modern advice and turned a small organic family farm into a large corporate chemical farm with a thousand range cows, five thousand head of cattle in a factory feedlot, thousands of acres of crops, and as many as thirty employees. I saw the organic soil go from a living, productive base to a sterile, chemical-saturated, mono-cultural ground produced by my so-called modern methods.
In 1979, a tumor on my spinal cord caused me to be paralyzed from the waist down. That changed my life forever. I promised myself that, whatever the outcome of the surgery, I would dedicate the rest of my life to doing what I believed to be right -- no matter what changes that necessitated.
The period before and after the surgery gave me much time to think about the changes resulting form my methods of farming. Convinced that we were going the wrong way, I decided to become a voice for the family farmer and the land. In 1983, I sold most of my farm and started working for farmers in financial trouble. This led to my working for the Montana Farmers Union and from there to Washington, D.C. as a lobbyist for the National Farmers Union.
For five years I worked on Capitol Hill for America's family farmers. In that time we had some small successes, such as passing the National Organic Standards Act. But even after the act became a law, it took the administration several years to allow funds for its implementation. I became convinced that the changes needed had to come from the producer and the consumers at the grassroots level. Until that alliance is put into play, the big money interest will continue to control public policy in the Congress of the United States.
The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist it. Are we so attached to the dietary fallacies with which we were raised, so afraid to counter the arbitrary laws of eating taught to us in childhood by our misinformed parents, that we cannot alter the course they set us on, even if it leads to our own ruin? Does the prospect of standing apart or encountering ridicule scare us even from saving ourselves?
That prospect intimidated me once, and I can only wonder now what I was frightened of. It's hard to imagine, now that I'm a hundred thirty pounds lighter, infinitely healthier, more full of life and energy, much happier. Now that I have vegetarian friends wherever I go, and feel part of a movement that is not so much political as it is a march of the human heart. Now that I understand how much is at stake. Now that I've come to relish shaking people up.
I would love to see the meat industry and the pesticide industry shaken up, too. I would love to see feedlots close and factory farming end. I would love to see more families return to the land, grow crops for our own species, and raise them organically. I would love to see farm communities revive. I would love to know that I've wandered into my nation's heartland by the sweet smell of grain and not the forbidding smell of excrement. When you can't take it with you, all that really matters is what you leave behind.
Found in Living Light Culinary's E-newsletter.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
you don't know what you have... till it's gone.
atleast, you do come to the place, where you realize are blessed. Hopefully, it happens before you lose something good.
It's weird to see my dad on drugs. He takes pain meds to help relieve the pain in his gut. He will become addicted to this stuff... he will never see another sober, drug-free day for the rest of his life. He has some of his "last-times" happening all the time.
I am thankful to be free from drugs, free from worries, free from everything. Thank you God.
Are you happy with where you are in life?
How can you make your life a little bit closer to your dream?
Do you meditate? pray?
I love meditation and prayer.
They are so powerful.
I know some of these thoughts are random, I hope they are nuggets of energy to keep your spirit burning with life.
It's weird to see my dad on drugs. He takes pain meds to help relieve the pain in his gut. He will become addicted to this stuff... he will never see another sober, drug-free day for the rest of his life. He has some of his "last-times" happening all the time.
I am thankful to be free from drugs, free from worries, free from everything. Thank you God.
Are you happy with where you are in life?
How can you make your life a little bit closer to your dream?
Do you meditate? pray?
I love meditation and prayer.
They are so powerful.
I know some of these thoughts are random, I hope they are nuggets of energy to keep your spirit burning with life.
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