Don’t Discard

Apr 292010
 

Gratitude creates it’s own attitude. It can give you a new perspective, a new focus. I am going to use this day as my opportunity to see those things.

Today, I am thankful for new opportunities, new ways to look at things.


I loved the message of this talk by Steven Tomlinson. When he asked for advice at the age of 28, about how to choose between the three things he loved, he got the answer, “Don’t discard. Find a way to keep all three of these things in the mix.” I’ll leave you with this as I found very inspiring. It made me look at issues in my life with a new perspective.


Take a few minutes today to create your own Thankful Thursday.

How:

  • Sit back and consider what you have to be thankful for. Listing three to five things is nice, but one will do.
  • Post about gratitude on your blog. If you don’t have your own blog, go ahead and write about what you are thankful for in the comments here instead.
  • If you blog, please link back here or leave a comment.
  • Feel free to tag other bloggers, if you like to do that, but it’s not necessary. This is not a meme that obligates you to do anything, but look for gratitude. Oh, and link back, and comment, that’s all I ask.
    • Visit these other blogs that often participate in Thankful Thursday:

  • Tired Dog Ranch
  • Enlightened Horsemanship Through Touch
  • Earth Dancer Spanish Mustangs
  • The Pony Expression
  • From the Horse’s Back

    • Comunity Supported Agriculture

    Oct 102009
     

    Dave's catte from a visit in 2004

    Dave's catte from a visit in 2004

    This is a bit of a departure for me on the blog. I have been a vegetarian since 1983, but I fully support what Dave Reynolds is doing with his cattle business. I have met Dave. Besides raising longhorn cattle, he also breeds and trains Spanish Mustangs. He is good at both of these things. If I still ate meat, I would certainly be buying shares of Dave’s cattle.


    Lovely, tasty, little blueberries

    Lovely, tasty, little blueberries

    We have participated in a CSA for produce several times. It was great! Once a week, during the growing season, we would pick up our box from someone’s garage. It was a lot of fun to see what each week brought. Some things were unusual and made us consider what to do with them, like jiquama. And I ended up eating more produce, as I didn’t have to think about what to buy or even go to the store. It was right there.


    We no longer participate in a CSA, as we are expanding our backyard garden. We live in town on an 80′ x 80′ postage stamp lot. Yet our backyard garden of a few raised beds provided us with a lot of produce this year. Next year, it will be even more, as we remove more of the old, weedy lawn and convert that to vegetable beds. We had the ubiquitous zucchini, along with cantaloupes, tomatoes, eggplant, cucumbers, broccoli, cabbage, potatoes, basil, strawberries, blueberries, mint, cilantro, apples and probably more that I can’t remember.

    Here is another site to learn more about CSA. It is a great way to improve your health through eating more produce, while supporting your local economy and reducing impact on the planet. Besides … it’s just a lot of fun to eat something that you have grown yourself, especially just after it’s picked!