Just an observation

Families. They love passionately, wound deeply and forgive the unforgivable.

turbulence.

Turbulence.

Its a lifeforce.

It's a new opportunity

in disguise.

I SMITE THEE!

Wishing so very much that smiting

was back in vogue!

I could hold a good ol' fashioned,

humdinger of a Smite-fest!

Face planting

I seem to spend an aweful amount of my time picking myself up after falling metaphorically flat on my face. I suppose on the up side I do stand up ready to try some new endeavour, whereby I can, in spectacular fashion,fall flat on my face once again.

There was a time when I seriously questioned my ability to do anything well. I still question it quite regularly. The only thing is that now, my care factor of what people will think is gone or at least dimishing.

Is that a step forward or backward? I really don't know.

If you can't say anything nice

......come sit by me

Sittin' and chillin'

drinking fair trade coffee.

Can almost taste the justice and equity.

What a minefield!

Its been just on 3 weeks since I started looking into Fair Trade. Perhaps naively, I had the notion that all that was required to make the world a better place, was to purchase some Fair Trade coffee and chocolate. Anyone can do that!

Wrong! Wrong! Wrong.!

That theory all fell apart the instant, the second, NAY, the moment I started looking at other products, which of course, involved different problems with varying organisations battling those concerns.

Is the product fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance, NoSweatshop, StopHumanTrafix, No hunger, organically certified? I had a severe case of information overload. Things needed to be broken down to few simple things that I could actually achieve without the associated headache.

So, as a consumer, Do I need it? If I do need it (or at least REALLY want it), does the purchase improve or lessen the quality of life for those people at the other end of the produce chain?

Thats it. Simplistic solution for a complicated topic. It certainly doesn't fix everything, but it is a step in the right direction