Archive for People Doing Good Stuff
Announcing Blue Eagle Invocation Bath Salts
By · July 1, 2010 · CommentsMusings and more from Nancy Boyd. You may want to subscribe to the RSS feed if you haven’t already. Thanks for visiting!For the Blue Eagle Invocation Liquid Smudge enthusiasts, we have some great news. This month, we’ll be getting our first shipments of the new Invocation organic bath salts. For those of you who are [...]
Continue reading »Join Hands Across The Sand
By · June 25, 2010 · CommentsEvery so often, a small group of people come together to make a difference. And what they imagine becomes real. And inspires millions. How about this idea? What if you could get a bunch of friends together, go to the beach — and not just party down, but make a positive statement for something you [...]
Continue reading »What Business Are You In?
By · June 19, 2010 · CommentsThis is a story about knowing what you really have to offer, and what a difference it makes when you do. A few years back, we were traveling along the Northeast corridor on the Interstate, en route to visit relatives. Now, I don’t know about all Interstates, but this one has no “real” service stations, [...]
Continue reading »LiveBlogging: Freestyle Demonstration
By · June 17, 2010 · CommentsOkay, now things are really rocking and rolling here! I have to confess I couldn’t stand to sit here and type while the freestyle was going on. It was just awesome. First of all, Caryn Tindal of dazzledogsent.com gave us a performance of her 14-year-old disabled Corgi Winston, who is in a cart; he had [...]
Continue reading »What To Do With All That “Lost Oil”?
By · June 17, 2010 · CommentsWarning: rant ahead, with a side sauce of sarcasm. . . . The still-unfolding drama playing out in the Gulf of Mexico with the oil spill is horrifying. And that’s an understatement. But beyond pointing fingers and looking for someone to blame, what I want to know is why can’t we get it under control? [...]
Continue reading »Growing Tomatoes in Pots
By · June 16, 2010 · CommentsOnce (only a few years ago but it seems like a long time now) I had a vegetable garden, filled with all kinds of good things for us to eat. Those days are gone, however, in part because of how much time it takes to: plant water weed do organic pest control harvest What we [...]
Continue reading »Who’s A Victim?
By · June 15, 2010 · CommentsThe other day I was reading a blog post by Perry Marshall about the Gulf Oil spill and the urgent need everyone seems to have to find someone to blame. I loved that post and will link to it here (as well as blogging about the “blame game” here.) It didn’t take an oil spill [...]
Continue reading »What Does A Better World Look Like?
By · June 14, 2010 · CommentsWhile each of us probably has our own personal idea about what the world would look like — mine is conveniently called “A Better World According to Nancy” — and yours will have whatever title you choose to give it — there are probably some areas of agreement that a majority of people could find, [...]
Continue reading »The Grandmothers Speak
By · June 12, 2010 · CommentsA few years back I learned about a council of 13 indigenous women (the Council of Grandmothers) who came together in 2004 out of concern for the state of the world and all living in it. Among them, they have 889 years of wisdom to share with the world. Among many indigenous cultures, 13 is [...]
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