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Welcome to a new themed day here at my blog - Make a Difference Monday. Each week I'll highlight a way in which you can make a difference in your own life, for our environment, for our animal companions, or in other ways. Those of you that have read Bjorn's Mate, have been exposed to what to me, is a very important theme in my work: the environment. The more I study about bears of all types (polar, grizzly, black bears, etc.), the more fascinated I become with them. And the thought of the majestic polar bears disappearing scares me! What if Bjorn and his men have no Arctic home in which to live and love? Frightening!!!! So, that's why I've started this weekly theme day. Not everything will be environmental, though you'll find that some of my ideas cross boundaries. Such as today's. This week's tip: Pamper yourself and the environment with natural care products! And don't forget to read labels! I must confess, one of my personal indulgences is organic face care and body care products. I love natural toothpaste (minty!), organic face wash and body lotions. Yummy! They smell so good and they make my skin feel oh so nice. And, I can put them on feeling good that I'm not contributing to putting more chemicals either in my body or in the environment. A great way to start is to just pick one item. How about lotion? Or lip balm? Something small, yet something you'll like to pamper yourself. Then, replace something else. And something else. Before you know it, you'll be surrounding yourself in natural luxury. How to find natural products? Well your natural food store or co-op is always a great place to start, as is farmer's market. None close by? Then check out online stores such as Jupiter Gardens - http://www.jupitergardens.com/. Pamper yourself - naturally! Not only will you feel better, but you'll also be helping the environment too.  
Sometimes it's funny what makes people happy. Today is payday, and I'm glad for it, but that's not what made me really ectastic today. No, the UPS guy delivered my order of boxes. That's right. Boxes. The kind you ship things in. Plain. Brown. Cardboard. Boxes. Whee!!!!!! And, my price gun (the kind that makes price stickers you put on things) arrived today too. I am retail-new-age-girl now. All ready to open my store. http://www.jupitergardens.com/ Today's lesson: take happiness where you can find it. And smile!
Just like a carpenter who realizes that he put a board up at a wrong angle, or worse yet, cut the board at a wrong length, so too, do writers need to go back to the drawing board. In fact, I'm doing that this week with a project I'd started. It didn't quite reach its mark. And frankly, going back through an already completed outline and figuring out where to tweak, were to fix, etc, is a pain. A big pain. And since I started it yesterday, and I know I'll need to pretty much gut the whole middle of the book, I decided the best thing to do, for my sanity, would be to start all over. It's okay. Sometimes, when we scrap what we're working on, the resulting new story is a much stronger story. Sometimes, the muse hits us in the most interesting ways, adding a richness and depth to our tale we might not have found otherwise. So, as I look at the "to do" list and at the yellow legal pad in front of me, I think.... I'm not reinventing the wheel, I'm simply adding a coat of paint. May all your projects run smoothly today...
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