Yesterday was the last day of the past of your life

well, I couldn’t title it Happy New Year – that’s too much like everyone else!

2008 is officially here – everywhere now.  2007 has past, taking with it it’s own set of high’s & low’s – here’s hoping ’08 will be filled with a few more high’s!

The start of a new year is a harbinger of a chance to start over – a fresh slate, if you will.  People look at the past & decide what they need to change to bring about a better future – and once in a while they actually stick!

What are my resolutions?

1 – get over this cold - grrrrr it arrived at 2:00 am – the time that some form of disease seems to descend upon our house each Jan 1.  This is one that I can keep! ha ha

2 – clean  house  - take down all of the Christmas decor, fold the mountain of clean laundry, find a sparkling, clean sink somewhere in the kitchen, and de-clutter the house.  This will make the Mr. MUCH happier.  Well, once he gets over HIS cold it will…

3 – Keep the clutter at bay - tough -I’m a pack rat, and admittedly, I’m just lazy.  Add 2 young girls into the mix, and you have a recipe for disaster – hurricanes & tornadoes look to have blown through with regularity, and they start with A & M

4 – find a place to donate all of this excess STUFF - when we moved, goodwill knew me by car.  We donated soooooooooo much junk (complete set of James Bond anyone?) BUT – most unfortunately – we still have half of a garage full of boxes.  ugh.  I haven’t found goodwill up here 30 minutes from anywhere, however I think there is a kids clothing place.  That will help!

5 – become active in PaperBackSwap again - this requires going through the extensive library – again – and finding new homes for many dear friends – and a few mere acquaintances.  Haven’t heard about it yet?  Well… check it out below!

6 –  Continue with the healthier diet that we have begun.  We eat mostly vegetables with some chicken.  I just need to find a local CSA farm.  The drop for our old one is over 30 miles away – not quite eating local is it!

7 – cut down on the amount of STUFF that we bring in the house.

8 – reduce – reuse – recycle – reduce waste, reuse things as much as possible, and recycle everything that we can.  We already have the smallest trash can that WM NW offers, and we recycle 3 times as much as goes into it.  I also want to get the compost pile REALLY going.

9 – plant the vegetable garden.  we already have raspberries & red currants, but we need to add in the other veggies – carrots, long beans, sunflowers, garlic, potatoes, etc.  I have a ingenious thought on the potatoes – I’ll share more about that later.  It requires some straw…

10 – do what I can to help others realize just how much they consume and throw away.  We are a nation of consumers – wasteful, over-spent,  greedy, and blind to the world around us.  We don’t want to do anything that changes our cushy existence, or makes us stop for even a second to think about the effects of our actions.

We need to wake up and look at the world.  We are destroying it.

We are cutting down trees at an alarming rate, cutting down mountains to get the fuels that are located inside.  We pollute our water sources with toxins and poisons, throw away plastics at an alarming rate – plastics that float around in the waterways and oceans, and are consumed by animals that don’t know better.

We fill the products that we bring into our homes with toxins – and wonder why we are a nation of people that are always sick.  Cancer is rising – and those diagnosed are getting younger & younger.  We inject our children with metals disguised as immunizations and cause more diseases.

Why is it that the USA thinks that we need to alter the food that God created for us?  If farmers would husband the land rather than destroy it with chemicals, they wouldn’t have the problems with too many pests.

How is it that humanity survived for millennia without altering the chemical make-up of food and filling everything with corn, yet we are told that if we don’t do these things humanity can’t survive?  There is a difference in taste between fresh, natural, organic food that the mass-produced junk that fills our grocery store shelves.  And don’t get me started on the HFCS and hydrogenated oils and MSG that food factories fill everything with.  Gee, I wonder why our kids are so obese.  We fill them with sugar & fat & corn and sit them down in front of a TV or video games or computers for hours on end.

Get outside and enjoy nature.  Once you have an experience in nature – away from technology and cities – and truly look at the world around you, how can you NOT want to save it?

We are stewards – we need to take care of the planet that God created and told us to take care of.  At this rate, we will have to start colonizing other planets just to support humanity – or allow a massive war to kill half of the population.  Oh, and wipe out technology so we have to re-learn how to exist at a simpler level.

All of this is done in the name of progress.  Are we really progressing?  Or are we causing a huge problem that we cannot fix?

Just remember, today is the first day of the rest of your life – make the most of it!

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