Light

These are the darkest days of the year and, oh, what a year it has been. Find your light. Shine it. Share it.

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Plan

Before you make your grocery shopping list make a plan. Think about what ingredients you already have? Particularly, what needs to be used.

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Pause

Sometimes we need to pause.

Breathe.

Our plate may be full.

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Soup

I love to make soup on a Sunday afternoon. Most soup recipes are easy.

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Links

You know, that blue text with the line under it?? It means you can click on it and it will take you somewhere. The links in this blog are gold.

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Dance

I’ll never forget the look on Glenn Close’s face when she came into the kitchen after dinner faced with the big cleanup in The Big Chill.

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Compost

Do food scraps go in the garbage or compost pile?

When we know the facts, it’s an easy choice and easy to do!

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Garden

The best way to avoid food waste is to grow your own.

You can reap a bounty of benefits from a garden.

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List

I’d ride on the end of the cart and slip in my favorite chocolate chip cookies and sugar cereal. Not the boring, generic wheat flakes our family of eight normally purchased.

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Food Waste

Shocking numbers abound on the internet on site after site, article after article about how we waste food at home.

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Food

Food keeps us alive and stops us from being hungry. Food has the power to heal, nourish, sustain, delight, inspire, and bring people together.

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Space

Now,

what do you want in your life?

Because, this is it.

Mary DraperJuly 19, 2020home, spirit, space, life Comment

Underwear

Unlike other clothing categories, worn underwear has not typically been accepted at donation centers or been an item you can regift - until now!

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Textiles

While clothing typically isn’t viewed as recyclable; roughly two million tons of textile products are recycled each year. This is the beginning of something big!

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Give Back Box

Reuse your cardboard boxes, fill them with items to donate, and mail them to charities in need with givebackbox.com/works.

Things

I like things. I like to use them. To see them. To be reminded of the people who gave them to me or made them. Maybe there is a whole story behind an object.

Mary DraperJune 21, 2020home, dwelling, things, peace, objectsComment