We have all heard about Modbury in Deven, being the first town in the UK to go completely plastic bag free. www.plasticbagfree.com
This week, Living Coasts in Torquay - a birdlife conservation centre, got a group of volunteers together, along with some scrap material and a few sewing machines and started making reusable shopping bags from a pattern supplied from www.morsbags.com - you can download the instructions and make your own!!! in 20 minutes you can have your very own unique shopping bag!!!
They then gave away the bags to the visitors at the centre, asking them to re-use the bags. Explaining how so many of the plastic bags end up in the sea where birds and other wild life either ingest or get tangled up in them. If we all do our bit, we could soon have a plastic bag free country!!!
11 October 2007
8 October 2007
Crevasse participation
Whilst at a party last Saturday I found myself invited into a round of Tarot card reading. Never one to shy away from others opions of what what's around the corner I choose my card.
'Participation' it was headed with. I thougtt I was (participating that is), but read on regardless. Notice the dusk, the end of the light of day and appeciate the setting of the sun, knowing it will soon return. The point was to participate in every moment of the day as if you've just been pulled from a deep ice crevasse to live another day.
'But that'll never happen to me' is often the response to that. But it happened to me twenty-five years ago. During the forty minutes or so I spent jammed down that crevasse I promised myself that if I ever got out of my seemingly hopeless situation that my life would be a bonus and I would appreciate every moment of every day, whatever may happen in life.
I guess the Tarot card was a reminder to me and all of us of the bonus of life, and perhaps to include in in our conscious living ways.
Damian
'Participation' it was headed with. I thougtt I was (participating that is), but read on regardless. Notice the dusk, the end of the light of day and appeciate the setting of the sun, knowing it will soon return. The point was to participate in every moment of the day as if you've just been pulled from a deep ice crevasse to live another day.
'But that'll never happen to me' is often the response to that. But it happened to me twenty-five years ago. During the forty minutes or so I spent jammed down that crevasse I promised myself that if I ever got out of my seemingly hopeless situation that my life would be a bonus and I would appreciate every moment of every day, whatever may happen in life.
I guess the Tarot card was a reminder to me and all of us of the bonus of life, and perhaps to include in in our conscious living ways.
Damian
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